approximately 140 police officers were injured on January 6th when a violent mob stormed the Capitol.

One of those officers was James Blassingame, a 17 year veteran of the Capitol police and this is how Mr. Blassing

game described that day to PBS news hour.

You just noise and

noise and people running at me

as far as I can see from the crypt all the way to the north side, the Senate side of the Capitol is running at us.

As bad as it looks on film, believe me it was much worse.

You know, they can stitch together as much footage as they want to,

but I'm telling you, and anybody that was in that scrum

will tell you, it was much worse in person

than anything you're ever going to see on film.

Officer Blassingame and another fellow officer became the first members of the

Capitol Police force to sue the person they say is responsible for that attack.

Not any of the individual rioters

and not the far right groups that helped organize the riot.

Those officers sued the man at the very top,

Donald Trump, who urged the mob to descend on the Capitol with the hope of overturning

a legitimate presidential election.

Now these Capitol police officers filed civil lawsuits in March of 2021 that was just two months

after the attack. But those lawsuits have been languishing in the federal courts

for more than two years now.

The DC Circuit Court heard arguments in those cases nearly a year ago,

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