They are four, this Tuesday, to appear before the special committee of Congress set up by the Democratic President of the House, Nancy Pelosi, as he begins his work to investigate the circumstances of the riot of January 6 last at the Capitol.
Four police officers, invited to recount their traumatic experience of the explosion of rage that led some 800 white-hot demonstrators to storm the Congress building.
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That day, Vice President Mike Pence was to certify Joe Biden's victory.
But President Donald Trump had just called on thousands of supporters to march to Congress to urge elected officials to refuse certification of the vote.
The four witnesses, who belong to the Capitol or Washington police, are moved and very angry, still in shock from what they have endured, during the chaotic hours of what Sergeant Aquilino Gonell describes as
" a medieval battle ”.
"We fought centimeter
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