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To the damaged coda4/20/2024 ![]() There are hundreds of ongoing court cases where we’ve been called to testify, magnifying our traumas and injuries. ![]() But for those of us who stood our ground and did our job protecting our country, January 6 never ended. Senator Minority Whip John Thune - who can be seen on the new tapes - criticized Trump, tweeting on January 7 that the insurrection was “inexcusable” and “disgusting.” Now he insists that January 6 is “in the past,” as if we could easily move on. 6 officer: Republicans would "keep us from protecting the Capitol" if Trump tries another coup The front-runner for the upcoming election, he’s being rewarded for it, emboldened by the members of his supposed “law and order” party who don’t care that he lawlessly endangered our liberty. Yet Trump has faced no consequences for inciting the riot. Trump’s henchman Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million for doing his boss’s bidding in defaming election workers. Some are locked up with 20-year sentences. More than 700 riot participants instructed by Trump to “fight like hell” to uphold his fraud were convicted of assault, battery, destruction and obstruction. ![]() Four of my brothers in blue were so damaged by what they experienced that they died by suicide, leaving widows and fatherless children. To whom? These lawmakers went home to their families unharmed that night and to their white collar jobs the next day as Trump fled to his multi-million dollar Mar-a-Lago estate, while nine people lost their lives. Then Johnson joined Trump’s minions in downplaying the siege to imply nothing bad happened. “We heard gunshots and screaming…It was crazy, people were banging on the doors…” he said at the time, calling the president’s whipping the crowd into a frenzy and handling of the situation “terrible,” and expecting Trump to stop it. On January 7, 2021, he went on the radio to describe the capitol riot as “a bad dream” and “chaotic scene” that unfolded as he was swiftly escorted into a secure area during the lockdown. If Trump is reelected, he’s vowed to give full pardons and a government apology to the rioters who attacked law enforcement officers like myself to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Yet he still supports the former president who was indicted on 91 counts, including inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol and almost killed me. Speaker Mike Johnson witnessed firsthand the violent insurrection three years ago. Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism ![]() They’d both required months of physical and mental therapy to treat my PTSD. After doctors insisted I have X-rays and MRIs (whose results I released on social media) I learned I’d need two surgeries, one on my shoulder and another that left a metal plate with 8 screws in my foot. In excruciating pain, I didn’t know the extent of multiple injuries I’d suffered. Yet I kept showing up to work -shocked and on adrenaline – for weeks afterwards. I feared I’d lose my life, as five others did that day. As a police officer defending the Capitol, I fought off the mob of Trump supporters in what resembled a medieval battle. They used the images of me standing upright on the evening of January 6, after I’d been bludgeoned by rioters for six hours, to disprove my sworn testimony. These lawmakers went home to their families unharmed that night and then to their white collar jobs the next day as Trump fled to his multi-million dollar Mar-a-Lago estate, while nine people lost their lives. ![]()
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