Justice Department Struggles To Bring Jan. 6th Cases To Trial
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🗓️ 28 July 2021
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The committee was proposed as a bi-partisan effort by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi but after she rejected two nominees from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the hearings have begun without support from Republican leaders.
Since January 6th the Justice Department has arrested hundreds of people who were at the Capitol. NPR Investigations Correspondent Dina Temple-Raston reports that while those cases initially seemed like they'd be a slam dunk, the process of bringing them to trial has proved more difficult than anyone could have imagined.
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| 0:00.0 | It's an important part of the record. |
| 0:02.7 | For this committee's investigation, for the country's understanding of how I was assaulted |
| 0:06.8 | and nearly killed as the mob attacked the Capitol that day. |
| 0:11.3 | This is DC Police Officer Michael Fanon. |
| 0:14.4 | Speaking on Tuesday to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the |
| 0:19.7 | U.S. Capitol and just a heads up it might be disturbing for some listeners. |
| 0:26.2 | My body camera captured the violence of the crowd directed toward me during those very |
| 0:30.6 | frightening moats. |
| 0:32.8 | I was grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country. |
| 0:39.3 | I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm as I heard a chance of |
| 0:45.6 | killing with his own gun. |
| 0:47.7 | I could still hear those words in my head today. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm sure I was screaming but I don't think I could even hear my own voice. |
| 0:57.2 | At some point during the fighting I was dragged from the line of officers and into the crowd. |
| 1:02.1 | I said as loud as I could manage. |
| 1:04.3 | I've got kids. |
| 1:08.0 | Fanon was one of four police officers who testified on Tuesday. |
| 1:12.0 | It was the first hearing held by the Democratic-led House Select Committee investigating the attack. |
| 1:17.8 | Some Republican politicians have downplayed the violence of that day and here's what Fanon |
| 1:21.8 | said about that. |
| 1:23.0 | I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them in the people in this room. |
| 1:29.2 | But too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist or that hell actually wasn't that |
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