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Earlier this week, four police officers testified in the first hearings from the House Select Committee on January 6th.

When a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump attempted to overtake the Capitol in hopes of overturning the 2020 election results.

The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful.

I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room.

But too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist or that hell actually wasn't that bad.

Eventually it was my turn in the meat grinder that was a frontline.

The terrorists had a wall of shields that they had stolen from officers as well as stolen batons,

what other armaments they brought.

Even during this intense contest of wills, they tried to convert us to their cult.

One man shouted, we all just want to make our voices heard and I think you feel the same.

I really think you feel the same.

To me, it's insulting, it's demoralizing.

Because everything that we did was to prevent everyone in the Capitol from getting hurt.

And what he was doing instead of sending the military, instead of sending the support or telling his people,

his supporter to stop this nonsense, he egged them to continue fighting.

If a hitman is hired and he kills somebody, a hitman goes to jail.

But not only does the hitman go to jail, but the person who hired them does.

There was an attack carried out on January 6th.

And a hitman sent them.

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