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It was the first time I’d stood on that spot since Jan. 6 — since returning to work, I’d used other entrances and exits just to avoid reliving what happened.
Now I could almost hear the angry chants — Stop the steal! Fight for Trump! U.S.A.! … — as well as the screams of an injured fellow officer. In response to the group’s questions, I repeated some of the account I’d given to the House committee: How we were beaten, pulled, punched and blinded with eye-damaging lasers by savages wielding hammers, knives, batons, baseball bats, a flagpole, and pepper and bear spray. How I was crushed in the tunnel, hands bleeding and barely able to breathe — worse than anything I’d experienced during my military service in Iraq — and I thought: This is how I’m going to die, trampled while defending this entrance. I even showed the visitors where I’d undergone shoulder and foot surgeries because of that day’s injuries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ting-capitol-helping-tourists-reliving-jan-6/
Now I could almost hear the angry chants — Stop the steal! Fight for Trump! U.S.A.! … — as well as the screams of an injured fellow officer. In response to the group’s questions, I repeated some of the account I’d given to the House committee: How we were beaten, pulled, punched and blinded with eye-damaging lasers by savages wielding hammers, knives, batons, baseball bats, a flagpole, and pepper and bear spray. How I was crushed in the tunnel, hands bleeding and barely able to breathe — worse than anything I’d experienced during my military service in Iraq — and I thought: This is how I’m going to die, trampled while defending this entrance. I even showed the visitors where I’d undergone shoulder and foot surgeries because of that day’s injuries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ting-capitol-helping-tourists-reliving-jan-6/
