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    1. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      "If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic, undermining the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy system." -- Liz Cheneypic.twitter.com/D8LBl64yn3

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    2. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      Liz Cheney's opening statement to the January 6 Select Committee: "On January 6th and in the days thereafter, almost all members of my party recognized the events of that day for what they actually were ... no member of Congress should not attempt to defend the indefensible."pic.twitter.com/kqVNKnfJEN

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    3. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      US Capitol Sgt Aquilino Gonell: "What we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battle. We fought hand to hand ... the rioters that attempted to reach the Capitol were shouting, 'Trump sent us' ... I recall thinking to myself, 'this is how I'm gonna die'"pic.twitter.com/gcqzKjv6JX

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    4. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      Sgt. Gonell gets emotional recalling how when he returned home early on the morning on Jan 7, he had to push his wife away because of all the chemicals he had on his clothespic.twitter.com/91LBpd1LVi

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    5. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      "There are some who express outrage when someone kneels while calling for social justice. Where are those same people expressing the outrage to condemn the violent attack on law enforcement, the Capitol and our American democracy? I'm still waiting for them" -- Sgt Gonellpic.twitter.com/pIs57xyd9z

      49 replies 1,688 retweets 5,956 likes
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    6. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      "We are not asking for medals or recognition, we simply want justice and accountability" -- Sgt Gonellpic.twitter.com/rRMU4zwwXF

      59 replies 984 retweets 5,033 likes
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    7. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      DC Officer Michael Fanone's opening statement to the January 6th Select Committee: "I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as I heard chants of 'kill him with his own gun.' I can still hear those words in my head today."pic.twitter.com/7wfk17jpBj

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    8. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      Fanone: "I was aware enough to recognize I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm. I was electrocuted again and again and again with a taser. I'm sure I was screaming, but I don't think I could even hear my own voice."pic.twitter.com/2qgmASp6n1

      59 replies 1,156 retweets 4,066 likes
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      Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

      Fanone: "I thought about using my firearm ... But I knew if I did, I'd be quickly overwhelmed & in their minds that would provide them w/the justification for killing me. So instead I decided to appeal to any humanity they might have. I said as loud as I could, 'I've got kids'"pic.twitter.com/8xpq6cfOWB

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        2. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Fanone pounds the table as he says, "the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful!" "Nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day and in doing so betray their oath of office," he addspic.twitter.com/LrJOxT0ueh

          272 replies 4,659 retweets 14,091 likes
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        3. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          DC officer Daniel Hodges: "A man attempted to rip the baton from my hands & we wrestled for control. I retained my weapon. After I pushed him back, he yelled at me, 'you're on the wrong team!'...another [shouted], 'you will die on your knees!'"pic.twitter.com/MxZnFTNYlO

          116 replies 1,908 retweets 5,904 likes
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        4. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          The look on Adam Kinzinger's face during law enforcement's opening statements to the January 6 committee says a lotpic.twitter.com/2E8AJ0b3uh

          127 replies 921 retweets 6,136 likes
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        5. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          "The mob of terrorists were shouting 'heave, ho' and they pushed their way forward. A man in front of me grabbed my baton ... he bashed me in the face and head with it ... I did the only thing I could do and screamed for help" -- Officer Hodgespic.twitter.com/NwpDcPEKnx

          101 replies 1,462 retweets 5,082 likes
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        6. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Capitol Officer Harry Dunn on what he saw on January 6: "Until then I had never seen anyone physically assault Capitol police or MPD, let alone witness mass assaults being perpetrated on law enforcement officers."pic.twitter.com/I8E5qnCAps

          62 replies 1,116 retweets 4,438 likes
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        7. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Dunn: "I told them to just leave the Capitol, and in response they yelled, 'no man, this is our house. President Trump invited us here. We're here to stop the steal.'" He goes on to detail how crowd yelled racial slurs at him.pic.twitter.com/NYZDPPKg0t

          204 replies 3,308 retweets 8,684 likes
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        8. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          fficer Dunn: "I sat down on a bench in the rotunda with a friend of mine who is also a black Capitol police officer and told him about the racial slurs I endured. I became very emotional and began yelling, 'how the blank could something like this happen. Is this America?'"pic.twitter.com/rcn6ElsXU5

          61 replies 1,001 retweets 4,568 likes
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        9. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Reminder: this is Officer Daniel Hodgespic.twitter.com/NMdOmOckGw

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        10. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Sgt. Gonell: "My time, compared to [serving in] Iraq, totally different. This is our own citizens, people who we've sworn an oath to protect, but yet they are attacking us with the same flag they claim to represent. It was bad."pic.twitter.com/TRKyGN1qmX

          46 replies 1,322 retweets 5,021 likes
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        11. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Dunn on racial abuse he received on January 6: "It was just so overwhelming and so disheartening and disappointing that we live in a country with people like that"pic.twitter.com/ceiSVsElFM

          43 replies 904 retweets 4,319 likes
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        12. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Cheney asks Sgt. Gonell how he feels when he hears Trump describe the mob as a "loving crowd." He says it's "upsetting" and that "it's a pathetic excuse for his behavior, for something that he himself helped create ... I'm still recovering from those 'hugs and kisses' that day"pic.twitter.com/cnK1s826CE

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        13. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          My God. The January 6 footage from Officer Fanone's body camera is harrowing and at one point shows him yelling to the insurrectionists assaulting him, "I've got kids!"pic.twitter.com/7QfVPKIVrc

          137 replies 1,871 retweets 6,199 likes
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        14. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Fanone on getting pulled off the line of law enforcement officers by insurrectionists on January 6: "I knew that I was in -- I was up shit creek without a paddle ... based off the body-worn camera footage, it's believed that I was unconscious for approximately 4 minutes"pic.twitter.com/6R0OPYnKyR

          93 replies 1,878 retweets 6,453 likes
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        15. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          "I never expected today to be quite as emotional for me as it has been" -- Adam Kinzinger breaks down as he commends the officers for the jobs they did on January 6pic.twitter.com/JrgPEK0h8P

          203 replies 1,957 retweets 7,979 likes
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        16. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Kinzinger, choking up, concludes by telling the officers, "we thank you for holding that line."pic.twitter.com/rTwq1CgBYA

          35 replies 776 retweets 4,425 likes
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        17. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Sgt. Gonell's body cam footage from January 6 shows someone telling him, "you're going to die tonight"pic.twitter.com/BAiGZcktWy

          61 replies 1,120 retweets 3,776 likes
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        18. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Sgt. Gonell: "My sense of duty for the country, for the constitution, at that time was bigger than even my love for my wife & my son. I put that ahead. And, for me, it's confounding that some people who have sworn an oath. Elected officials... they're forgetting about their oath"pic.twitter.com/VgEyKiA9VV

          48 replies 1,267 retweets 5,175 likes
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        19. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          An emotional Rep. Schiff: "If we're no longer committed to a peaceful transfer of power after elections if our side doesn't win, then God help us. If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn't go our way ... then God help us."pic.twitter.com/ccPZMKUQa5

          112 replies 1,447 retweets 5,885 likes
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        20. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Rep. Pete Aguilar plays a video highlighting the weapons insurrectionists used on January 6pic.twitter.com/Fg0JxSlhn4

          55 replies 813 retweets 3,074 likes
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        21. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Hodges on why he characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection: "The crowd was overwhelmingly white males ... people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that kind of belief system."pic.twitter.com/R1gQO9hbyN

          34 replies 958 retweets 3,761 likes
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        22. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Hodges's body camera footage from January 6 shows chain of events leading to him getting crushed in a Capitol doorwaypic.twitter.com/K2LnNfnUQN

          39 replies 729 retweets 2,852 likes
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        23. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Rep. Stephanie Murphy gives thanks to Capitol law enforcement officers: "I think it's important for everyone to remember, though, that the main reason rioters didn't harm any members of Congress is because they didn't encounter any members of Congress."pic.twitter.com/llVO3Nctp4

          24 replies 878 retweets 3,888 likes
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        24. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Rep. Raskin: "Those who attacked you and beat you are fascist traitors to our country, and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors."pic.twitter.com/ReJxUIRXKk

          65 replies 1,210 retweets 4,990 likes
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        25. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Dunn on why January 6 was violent whereas other protests in DC generally have not been: "They had marching orders ... when people feel emboldened by people in power, they assume that they're right."pic.twitter.com/2OWxH6TMz0

          27 replies 880 retweets 3,527 likes
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        26. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Hodges on Republicans describing insurrectionists as "tourists": "Well, if that's what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don't like American tourists."pic.twitter.com/fmV6I7QEJz

          49 replies 849 retweets 3,956 likes
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        27. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Fanone: "Thinking about those events and the things that were said, it's disgraceful that members of our govt [who] I believe were responsible for inciting that behavior and then continue to propagate those statements, things like, 'this was a 1776'"pic.twitter.com/CqMvxLJOuc

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        28. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Fanone urges the January 6th Select Committee to investigate the rhetoric that incited people in the days leading up to January 6 and whether there was collaboration between GOP elected officials and insurrectionistspic.twitter.com/7vLNuDnAFk

          39 replies 1,004 retweets 3,739 likes
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        29. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Hodges: "I need you guys to address is anyone in power had a role in this, if anyone in power coordinated, or aided or abetted, or tried to downplay, tried to prevent the investigation of, this terrorist attack."pic.twitter.com/inVO6IGZEn

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        30. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Dunn: "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth hard? I guess in this America, it is."pic.twitter.com/CeBD6kHl7P

          226 replies 4,337 retweets 15,350 likes
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        31. Aaron Rupar‏Verified account @atrupar 27 Jul 2021

          Officer Dunn: "There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that."pic.twitter.com/mIOtjxKpI7

          91 replies 1,303 retweets 5,351 likes
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