Officers describe hand-to-hand combat on January 6

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Four officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6 testified on Capitol Hill today about their mental health and lingering wounds with one saying “January 6 still isn’t over for me.” The four officers who testified told members of the Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack about the brutality they experienced that day. Becky Anderson is a psychologist and the clinical director of the DC Metropolitan Police Employee Assistance Program. She’s counseled Officer Fanone and many others in the wake of the Capitol riot. She tells Anderson Cooper the officers were exhausted after the traumatic stress from 2020 and the Capitol insurrection. Plus, President Joe Biden will announce a requirement that all federal employees and contractors be vaccinated against Covid-19 or get regular testing done. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams joins AC360 to discuss whether he thinks other companies and businesses will follow Biden’s lead. Airdate: July 27, 2021 Guests: Becky Anderson Dr. Jerome Adams To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	For almost every moment, since a violent mob of Trump supporters breached the Capitol,
0:05.7	we have been lied to about what actually happened that day.
0:09.2	Tonight, the people trying to tell you it wasn't exactly what it was, have no place to
0:13.5	hide anymore.
0:14.5	Today's testimony at the opening hearing of the House Select Committee on the Insurrection
0:18.3	took away the cover that all liars need, the cover that these liars have been using.
0:23.8	Because in the end, they are cowards.
0:26.0	As opposed to the witnesses today, four police officers testified to what they experienced
0:31.1	as they defended everyone in that building even the liars.
0:35.0	In a moment, one of the committee members, but first, some of what these men had to say,
0:38.8	it is long, but it's important to hear.
0:41.5	And we should warn you, you'll hear profanity.
0:43.5	You'll also hear one officer utter the racial epithet that members of the mob yelled
0:47.2	at him over and over again.
0:51.2	My name, for those of you who don't know, is Michael Fanon.
0:54.9	And while I've been a sworn officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington,
0:58.5	DC for almost two decades, I had deployed to Iraq for operation Iraqi Friedin.
1:05.4	But in January 6th, for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol than
1:11.4	my entire deployment to Iraq.
1:14.7	We started that day at 7.30 a.m. and our assignment at the time was to maintain high visibility
1:20.4	along Constitution Avenue, namely the blocks leading up to President's Park, where then
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