Sobering Testimony from Police Officers Launches House Committee Investigation of January 6 Insurrection

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Four police officers who were on the scene January 6th as insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol gave emotional testimony on Tuesday about the physical, verbal --and in some cases racist -- abuse they endured. Meanwhile, Congressional Republican leadership continues to downplay the insurrection, a fact that one officer testifying yesterday called “disgraceful.” We get your reaction to the first major hearing of the House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.6	Coming up on forum, we get your reaction to emotional testimony yesterday from four police officers
1:20.6	who were on the scene January 6th as insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol.
1:26.6	During those moments, I remember thinking there was a very good chance I would be torn apart or shot to death with my own weapon.
1:33.3	I thought of my four daughters who might lose their dad.
1:37.3	We look at where the House Select Committee investigating the deadly capital attack goes from here
1:42.3	and the struggle to hold the insurrectionists and their enablers accountable.
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2:05.7	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Here's DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Phanone yesterday,
2:11.2	describing what he encountered as he tried to protect the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
2:20.5	On that day, I participated in the defense of the United States Capitol from an armed mob, an armed mob, of thousands determined to get inside because I was among the vastly outnumbered group of law enforcement
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