“I slipped in the blood of the people”, says police about taking over the Capitol

Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, one of the first officers injured by protesters in the storming the capitol of January 6, 2021, described this Thursday the taking as a “war zone” in which “he slipped in the blood of the people”, during the first hearing of the committee investigating the assault.

“Never in my wildest dream did I think as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, that I would find myself in the middle of a battle,” said Edwards, who, despite having suffered a brain injury, on January 6, continued to patrol around the parliamentary headquarters preventing many protesters from entering.

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In her statement, she said that she was not “trained for combat” but that day he had to face hours of “hand-to-hand combat”.

In the assault on the Capitol, five people died – including an officer after suffering a heart attack hours after the assault – and about 140 agents were attacked. In addition, four policemen subsequently committed suicide.

The committee, which has interviewed more than a thousand witnesses and reviewed more than 140,000 documents, also showed unpublished graphic material and told the public about the events that led to the assault on Capitol Hill by a mob of Trump supporters.

The hearing was held in prime time and was broadcast live on all US networks with the exception of the conservative Fox.

Source: Elcomercio

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