Storming Of The Capitol Building

[BmorePat87]

I know there's many conservative posters who refuse to post in these threads about the terrorist attack. Some because they don't want to reveal that they support the violence. Others may not have the courage to confront the culmination of the rhetoric they've excused or praised for 4 years.

Hopefully anyone who is defending these terrorists or refusing to comment on it reads the first hand accounts of those who were being attacked.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/kill-him-with-his-own-gun-police-describe-facing-the-mob-at-the-capitol/35220563?fbclid=IwAR12061SE12NYA_xC2f-7rJV31Mz16nncbxb3NjqVvOdh8i1Ko3Bhs_5BMo#

As D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone laid on the ground at the U.S. Capitol building, stunned and injured, he knew a group of rioters were stripping him of his gear.

They grabbed spare ammunition, ripped the police radio off his chest and even stole his badge.

Then, Fanone, who had just been Tasered several times in the back of the neck, heard something chilling that made him go into survival mode.

"Some guys started getting a hold of my gun and they were screaming out, 'Kill him with his own gun,'" said Fanone, who's been a police officer for almost two decades.

And in those few moments, Fanone considered using deadly force. He thought about using his gun but knew that he didn't have enough fire power and he'd soon be overpowered again, except this time they would probably use his gun against him and they'd have all the reason to end his life.

"So, the other option I thought of was to try to appeal to somebody's humanity. And I just remember yelling out that I have kids. And it seemed to work," said the 40-year-old father of four.

A group within the rioters circled Fanone and protected him until help arrived, saving his life.

"Thank you, but f*** you for being there," Fanone said of the rioters who protected him in that moment.

"We were getting chemical irritants sprayed. They had pipes and different metal objects, batons, some of which I think they had taken from law enforcement personnel. They had been striking us with those,"

"It was difficult to offer any resistance when you're only about 30 guys going up against 15,000."

Officer Daniel Hodges was another officer who tried to battle back rioters but was roughed up in the battle. Hodges gained notoriety after footage of him circulated being crushed by a door. The 32-year-old officer is seen in the clip with blood dripping through his teeth as he kept gasping for enough air so he could yell "Help" at the top of his lungs.

"There's a guy ripping my mask off, he was able to rip away the baton and beat me with it," said Hodges, who was stuck in the door and added that his arm was bent before they ripped the weapon away.

"He was practically foaming at the mouth so just, these people were true believers in the worst way."

"They say things like, 'Yeah, we've been supporting you through all this Black Lives Matter stuff, you should have our back' and they felt entitled."

He added, "They felt like they would just walk up there and tell us that they're here to take back Congress and we would agree with them and we'd walk in hand in hand and just take over the nation. But obviously that's not the case and it will never be the case."