Police who defended U.S. Capitol to testify at riot probe's first hearing
Source: Reuters
Four police officers who worked to defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters are due to testify on Tuesday at the first hearing before a congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot.
Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, officers with the U.S. Capitol police, and Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, officers with the District of Columbia police, are scheduled as the panel's first witnesses....
Police were overwhelmed when hundreds of Trump supporters intent upon stopping Congress from formally certifying now-President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory stormed the Capitol, smashing windows, fighting with officers and sending lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence scrambling for safety....
"These officers and their colleagues are American heroes," said David Laufman, an attorney for Dunn and Gonell. "They courageously defended the United States Capitol and our democratic process against a violent insurrectionist mob on Jan. 6, and they're going to tell Congress and the American people the terrible truth of what actually happened that day."
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-who-defended-us-capitol-testify-riot-probes-first-hearing-2021-07-27/
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