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<i>Let's go, D. Hodges!</i>

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<i>I'm walking here!</i>

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Ow!

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<i>Cut it out, cut it out!</i>

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When I first learned
about that video

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that went around
on the internet

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about our defense
in the tunnel,

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I hit play,
and I watched what happened,

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and I hit pause,
and I wrote down what happened.

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And I kept doing that
until I reached the end.

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I was embarrassed.

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No one wants their 15 minutes of
fame to be crying out for help,

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you know, especially if your job
is a police officer.

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But ultimately, I'm glad that
it got out and got around,

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because it's important
to get the truth out

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about what happened.

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I almost feel like somebody else
took these photos.

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But it was me.

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I will always think about
what happened that day.

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I will always have these photos
to tell these stories.

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I'm trying to capture images
showing you one of the most

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important times
in American history.

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And I can't wait for the day
where I think that my son

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will be interested so I can
explain to him what happened,

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that I was there
at the Capitol building.

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I was scared for my fucking
life, and you know,

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I thought about you.

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There's no way I can forget.

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When footage of that day
was replayed,

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and even today is replayed,
I change the channel.

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And I still don't like
to watch it. I just, I can't.

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I didn't want to think about it
anymore.

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I really, I tried really hard,
as best I could,

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to block that day out.

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I didn't really share
immediately with, like, family

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what really went down, um,
but I've thought about

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January 6th a lot, you know
and trying to wrap

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my head around really
what happened that day.

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When I look back
and I think back,

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the gravity of everything
that that happened,

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this is history. People be
talking about this for years.

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And here I sit dead center,

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four days on the job...

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four days and the weight
of the world on your shoulders.

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I want everyone to know,

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there was a huge price to pay

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for our democracy on that day.

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Sure, where do you
want me to go?

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Right back in the...

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I was there,
I knew what happened,

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I was there all day,
and it's rare that you get

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the opportunity to put your
finger on the scale of history.

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And influence things in a way

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that brings the truth to light.

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My dad said democracy
needs the ground to stand on,

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and that ground is the truth.

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So, we gotta tell the truth.

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If we can handle it.

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The greatest strength
of democracy is that

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it comes from the people.

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The weakness of democracy
is that it has so many enemies,

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other pretenders to the throne.

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They always describe
Donald Trump

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as a larger-than-life figure.

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I'm appreciating that people
are not larger than life,

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people are just the right size
for a democracy

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where everybody gets one vote,

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one voice, and we need
everybody to participate.

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Good afternoon. When I think
about the most basic way

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to explain the importance of
elections in the United States,

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there's a phrase that always
comes to mind.

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It may sound straightforward,
but it's meaningful...

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Sometimes the truth is like
a second chance,

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and I believe that.

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You ready?

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Morning, morning.

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Ten bucks, ten bucks.
Hats and shirts.

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I'm a native son.

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This is the city that raised me,
and, you know,

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as crazy as this sounds,
I felt like everything

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that I had gone through here
in this city prepared me

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to be the chief of police
that I was on that day.

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I officially took over the job
as chief of police

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on January the 2nd, so 4 days
before January the 6th.

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Whether that was destiny
or whether it was just you know,

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I drew the short straw,
I don't know.

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-Whose streets?
-Our streets.

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-Whose streets?
-Our streets.

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-Whose streets?
-Our streets.

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It conjures up memories
of what happened on that day,

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kind of hits you in the gut.

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The officers are here below,
I mean look at these people

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that are standing overhead,
right,

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and we're not knowing
who's armed in the crowd.

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We had already recovered
firearms and so forth, so...

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I mean, there's just
a huge sense of vulnerability.

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People were running for their
lives that day,

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and it didn't matter,
it didn't matter what side

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of the fence you were on,
Republican or Democrat,

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it didn't matter.

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And for people to pretend
like nothing happened...

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it really, really angers me.

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Hats and shirts, ten bucks!

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That day, I rode into work
and there were a lot of people

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already out at like 6:30,
7:00 in the morning,

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converging on downtown.

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MPD's role,
it's unique in our city.

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There are different entities
that work together in order

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to provide safety
and security in our city.

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You have the United States
Secret Service

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who has responsibility
for the White House itself.

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You have the United States
Capitol Police

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that are responsible
for the Capitol,

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and the Metropolitan
Police Department

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is responsible for all
of the rest of the city

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where people eat, live,
work everyday in our city.

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Go Trump!

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USA, USA!

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Come and get your Trump hats.

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Here it is folks!

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Good morning, everyone.

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With all the rhetoric
that was happening

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leading up to January 6th,
we expected something big.

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Certainly, there was a lot of
internet chatter and you know,

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intelligence information going
back and forth that said

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a whole bunch
of different things.

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We had requested support from
other law enforcement agencies,

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and we requested the services
of the National Guard

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from the Secretary of the Army
to assist us in managing traffic

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so that police officers
would not be tied up

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dealing with traffic control.

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But there was a lot of back
and forth

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and a lot of discussion
about optics.

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And even once they got approval,
I was told the National Guard

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could not move East of 9th
Street without the approval

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of the Secretary of the Army.

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And quite frankly,
I was a little shocked.

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We would need approval at that
level of government to move

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personnel, you know, a few
blocks over from where they are.

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I mean that is, that's like,
like huge, right?

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That never happens.

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I'd been documenting protests
and marches for over a year

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at that point, it seems like.

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I started going to Trump rallies

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because Trump
is a part of the story.

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As a photographer,
what was very significant to me

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are the people and the people
that were there to attend

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the rally.

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Part of the reason I do
what I do when it comes

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to these protests is document,
you know, the both sides.

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I mean, here's this young Black
wearing a fucking

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Make America
Great Again red cap.

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I couldn't believe it.

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What the fuck are you doing?
What are you doing here?

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Why, ugh.

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Why am I here? Man,
I'm here for President Trump.

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I'm here put that energy
in a bucket, man, like...

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You start talking to these MAGA
people, and you just become

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fascinated with their values

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and their thought process

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and why they believe
what they believe.

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...understand and know
that this is a cause

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must also understand that
it is a righteous cause.

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This is where I knew,
and I was like, "Ah, shit,

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we got the Confederate
flag out this bad boy?"

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Fucking crazy.

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It's the first time I've ever
seen a Confederate
flag in person.

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I've never seen one in
my life right before my eyes.

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No.

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This is the first time,
Washington, DC,

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January 6th, 2021.

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I thought, you might need to
definitely more than usual,

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keep your head on a swivel.

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I follow the news. I'm aware
of the political climate

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in this country
and how divisive things

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have been in recent times.

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So, I'd absolutely understand
when communities of color feel

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feel like they've been
mistreated by law enforcement

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because there is
absolutely a history
of that in this country.

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And, I'm not
ignorant of the past.

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I am not ignorant
of the present.

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With that said, in 2020,
we would work 18 hours a day

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with no days off
for like a month at least,

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and from a law enforcement
perspective,

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that was the
backdrop for January 6th.

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That day, we're posted
along Constitution Avenue.

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The thing that really stood out
were those who were wearing

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ballistic vests, helmets,
goggles, fire gloves,

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backpacks packed full
of who knows what,

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that was concerning obviously
but that in it of itself isn't

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something that we
can stop people for.

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Keep it going, come on,
keep the march going.

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You've got a great march
going here, come on.

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At one point, some people
with tact gear came up

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to one of my colleagues

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and said, "Is this all
the police officers you have?"

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And my colleague looked down
at him, and was just confused,

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like, uh, didn't know
how to respond.

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And then the guy also said,
"Do you really think
you could stop us?

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So that was rather ominous.

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So, I'm checking out
the landscape of the city.

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-Whose streets?
-Our streets!

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-Whose streets?
-Our streets!

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I'm in the car, and there
were a group of individuals

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marching in formation, which
is what caught my attention.

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They were walking
towards the US Capitol.

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And I took a picture of that.

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Where's Antifa?

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Where's Antifa?

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Where's Antifa?

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Some of them were wearing
orange skull caps,

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and they had, like,
these ballistic vests on.

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Obviously, I'm thinking about,
you know, some type of training,

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prior law enforcement,
potentially military,
potentially.

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I'm thinking about
all those things.

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And I reached out to our
Homeland Security Chief

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and I said, "Hey,
I just noticed this.

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We need to make sure that we're
communicating with Capitol,

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that this is coming their way."

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Fuck Antifa!

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Fuck Antifa!

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Fuck Antifa!

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I said let me go see
how many people are really

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at this damn thing.

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Got all the way up, went up
this riser and then it was like,

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holy shit.

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This is thousands of people.

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Thousands.

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When I saw that,
I was like, goddamn.

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There's definitely going to be
some agitators

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amongst a crowd
of this size.

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Trump! Trump! Trump!

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Whooooo!

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The media will not show
the magnitude of this crowd.

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These people are not going
to take it any longer.

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They're not going to
take it any longer.

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I just really want to
see what they do.

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I just want to see
how they cover it.

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I've never seen
anything like it.

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It'd be really great if we...

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- Take this now?
- Yep.

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See ya, Mom!

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Bye-bye, have a good day.

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You too.

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That day, I was so excited

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for this certification
of these votes.

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I had never experienced
that, and so I drove to work

248
00:17:16,303 --> 00:17:19,741
really excited,
I got all dressed up.

249
00:17:19,807 --> 00:17:24,411
I've always worked in spaces
that are meant to advocate

250
00:17:24,478 --> 00:17:26,748
or uplift the Black community.

251
00:17:26,814 --> 00:17:31,485
And when Donald Trump
became president, it was,

252
00:17:31,553 --> 00:17:34,321
it was a challenging time,
to say the least.

253
00:17:34,388 --> 00:17:37,157
Um, so it felt like it
was a new day, you know?

254
00:17:37,224 --> 00:17:41,495
Joe Biden campaigned
on a message of unity,

255
00:17:41,563 --> 00:17:44,431
and it was something that
we had not heard in a few years,

256
00:17:44,498 --> 00:17:47,267
so I was really,
really, really excited

257
00:17:47,334 --> 00:17:50,203
to see what the future
held.

258
00:17:58,211 --> 00:18:00,982
I remember driving
down North Capitol Street,

259
00:18:01,049 --> 00:18:05,118
passing Lincoln's cottage
and the Rock Creek Cemetery,

260
00:18:05,185 --> 00:18:08,155
which is acres of tombstones.

261
00:18:09,423 --> 00:18:13,027
My whole life, I've thought
a lot about Abraham Lincoln.

262
00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:16,229
That day, I thought
about Lincoln

263
00:18:16,296 --> 00:18:20,068
losing his son in 1862

264
00:18:20,133 --> 00:18:22,670
near the beginning
of the Civil War,

265
00:18:22,737 --> 00:18:27,140
and not being able to properly
grieve for his son

266
00:18:27,207 --> 00:18:29,409
and being pulled
immediately into all of

267
00:18:29,476 --> 00:18:33,781
the military
planning and everything.

268
00:18:33,848 --> 00:18:35,817
I want to thank
all of you for coming

269
00:18:35,883 --> 00:18:39,587
and sharing our grief.

270
00:18:39,654 --> 00:18:44,157
Sharing our joy also,
about the life of Tommy.

271
00:18:45,593 --> 00:18:47,762
I've lost something
so fundamental,

272
00:18:47,829 --> 00:18:51,699
so elemental in my life
I am not sure at times

273
00:18:51,766 --> 00:18:54,234
that I even
recognize the world.

274
00:18:59,540 --> 00:19:02,677
Uh, my son Tommy had taken
his life on December 31st, 2020,

275
00:19:06,179 --> 00:19:08,616
um, after...

276
00:19:09,917 --> 00:19:11,218
um...

277
00:19:11,284 --> 00:19:14,856
a long seesaw battle
with depression.

278
00:19:27,702 --> 00:19:31,673
This was obviously
an overwhelming trauma

279
00:19:31,739 --> 00:19:35,475
and catastrophe
in the life of our family.

280
00:19:38,513 --> 00:19:42,650
We had his graveside service,
on January 5th.

281
00:19:42,717 --> 00:19:46,587
The next day,
January 6th...

282
00:19:47,555 --> 00:19:50,357
was the day
constitutionally assigned for

283
00:19:50,424 --> 00:19:52,292
Congress to meet
in joint session

284
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,862
to receive
the Electoral College votes.

285
00:19:56,430 --> 00:19:58,498
The Speaker called to ask if
I could come in,

286
00:19:58,566 --> 00:20:00,200
and I told her
that I could come

287
00:20:00,267 --> 00:20:05,272
because the Democrats
had an extremely
narrow majority,

288
00:20:05,338 --> 00:20:07,875
and of course I was miserable

289
00:20:07,942 --> 00:20:13,881
and I was grieving, but the
truth is that I knew that Tommy

290
00:20:15,449 --> 00:20:17,618
would be in my heart,
he would be in my chest.

291
00:20:17,685 --> 00:20:19,687
I felt him there
from the beginning,

292
00:20:19,754 --> 00:20:23,925
and I knew that he would
want me to be hanging tough.

293
00:20:25,126 --> 00:20:27,795
That became
a governing logic for me

294
00:20:27,862 --> 00:20:30,131
in everything
that was to come.

295
00:20:36,971 --> 00:20:40,240
Our youngest daughter, Tabitha,
decided to come with me,

296
00:20:41,609 --> 00:20:44,078
and so did my son-in-law, Hank,

297
00:20:44,145 --> 00:20:45,980
who's married
to our daughter Hannah.

298
00:20:49,150 --> 00:20:51,552
We looked out the window and
we could see these streams

299
00:20:51,619 --> 00:20:54,856
of protestors coming
towards the Capitol.

300
00:20:55,757 --> 00:20:57,859
I just had never
seen that before.

301
00:20:57,925 --> 00:20:59,392
Where's Antifa?

302
00:20:59,459 --> 00:21:00,862
Where's Antifa?

303
00:21:00,928 --> 00:21:02,130
Where's Antifa?

304
00:21:08,169 --> 00:21:13,373
My assumption
was that the Capitol police
were well prepared,

305
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,810
much like the Metropolitan
Police Department.

306
00:21:15,877 --> 00:21:19,547
What I saw
that was concerning to me

307
00:21:19,614 --> 00:21:21,182
is that there were not
very many

308
00:21:21,249 --> 00:21:25,086
Capitol police officers there
at the, at the bike rack.

309
00:21:25,153 --> 00:21:27,655
And this was really the first
point where they

310
00:21:27,722 --> 00:21:30,024
had to confront
some of the protestors.

311
00:21:33,528 --> 00:21:36,197
And I'm not exactly sure
strategically

312
00:21:36,264 --> 00:21:38,032
why they were
deployed that way.

313
00:21:38,099 --> 00:21:42,570
USA. USA. USA. USA.

314
00:21:54,949 --> 00:21:57,852
They breached the area here.

315
00:21:57,919 --> 00:21:58,920
Holy shit, guys.

316
00:22:03,257 --> 00:22:04,592
Holy shit, holy shit.

317
00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:13,366
Let's go!!

318
00:22:18,139 --> 00:22:20,575
If that had been defended
differently, you know--

319
00:22:20,641 --> 00:22:22,677
I can Monday-morning
quarterback it, but you know,

320
00:22:22,877 --> 00:22:25,213
what if there were
enough people there

321
00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:27,014
when that initial group
came there?

322
00:22:27,081 --> 00:22:29,449
You know, would things
have been different?

323
00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:37,959
We looked out the
window and Tabitha said,

324
00:22:38,025 --> 00:22:40,595
"Are the police gonna be able
to stop all these people?"

325
00:22:40,661 --> 00:22:44,397
And I said, "Yeah, it'll
be safe, it's the Capitol."

326
00:22:46,167 --> 00:22:49,237
We saw the protestors were
getting closer to the building,

327
00:22:49,303 --> 00:22:52,874
but I didn't take it seriously
because I thought the Capitol

328
00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:55,442
was one of the safest
buildings in the world.

329
00:22:55,509 --> 00:22:57,245
This is our house!

330
00:22:57,311 --> 00:23:00,380
We had been hearing chatter
of a potential protest,

331
00:23:00,447 --> 00:23:03,117
but that wasn't
out of the ordinary,

332
00:23:03,517 --> 00:23:06,486
so I just figured, you know,
that's what comes with
the territory of the day.

333
00:23:08,723 --> 00:23:11,893
USA! USA!

334
00:23:11,959 --> 00:23:14,095
I did
feel more nervous about it,

335
00:23:14,161 --> 00:23:16,898
but the Capitol police
felt like they were ready,
they were on top of it,

336
00:23:16,964 --> 00:23:20,201
so I gave Tabitha
and Hank a kiss goodbye,

337
00:23:20,268 --> 00:23:22,570
I said, "I'll see you out
at the floor," you know,

338
00:23:22,637 --> 00:23:25,373
"I'll be able to look up
at you in the gallery."

339
00:23:25,438 --> 00:23:27,575
<i>Rhonda, we're also seeing</i>
<i>Senators gather</i>

340
00:23:27,642 --> 00:23:31,444
<i>and prepare to</i>
<i>walk over to the House Chamber.</i>

341
00:23:31,512 --> 00:23:33,881
We were preparing for there
to be a convening

342
00:23:33,948 --> 00:23:36,751
of the full body of Congress
to certify these votes.

343
00:23:36,817 --> 00:23:39,654
I was really excited
just, just to be there.

344
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,790
And I remember House Majority
Whip Jim Clyburn

345
00:23:42,857 --> 00:23:45,593
doing his various press
interviews and taking
kind of a selfie

346
00:23:45,660 --> 00:23:49,563
of myself with the
Congressman, as I do.

347
00:23:53,134 --> 00:23:56,337
I was recording the Senators
walking over

348
00:23:56,404 --> 00:23:59,974
and posting it to Instagram, and
I think I said something like,

349
00:24:00,041 --> 00:24:02,877
"Let the certification begin,"
or something cheesy like that.

350
00:24:05,746 --> 00:24:07,381
Madam Speaker,
members of Congress,

351
00:24:07,447 --> 00:24:10,918
pursuant to the Constitution and
the laws of the United States...

352
00:24:10,985 --> 00:24:14,188
On the House floor,
they passed out the memo

353
00:24:14,255 --> 00:24:16,424
from Vice President Pence

354
00:24:16,489 --> 00:24:18,491
saying that he was not going

355
00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:21,662
to assert unilateral powers

356
00:24:21,729 --> 00:24:25,299
to reject Electoral College
votes from the states.

357
00:24:25,366 --> 00:24:26,834
That memo told you precisely

358
00:24:26,901 --> 00:24:28,803
what Trump was trying
to get him to do,

359
00:24:28,869 --> 00:24:30,404
and he explained
why he couldn't do it

360
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:33,774
and why it was not consistent
with the Constitution.

361
00:24:33,841 --> 00:24:36,510
So, I breathed a sigh of relief
because that was good news.

362
00:24:36,577 --> 00:24:38,346
After ascertainment
has been had

363
00:24:38,412 --> 00:24:42,316
that the certificates are
authentic and correct in form,

364
00:24:42,383 --> 00:24:45,019
the tellers will count and
make a list of the votes...

365
00:24:45,086 --> 00:24:47,021
A lot of us went into the
Congressman's office because

366
00:24:47,088 --> 00:24:49,156
the Congressman was
on the House floor

367
00:24:49,223 --> 00:24:51,759
dealing with
the certification by then.

368
00:24:51,826 --> 00:24:53,995
Outside of the Congressmen's
window,

369
00:24:54,061 --> 00:24:57,898
we could see the protestors
were getting closer,

370
00:24:57,965 --> 00:25:01,068
and it just seemed like they
were getting closer and closer.

371
00:25:03,204 --> 00:25:06,107
But even then, I was just like,
"That's closer than usual,

372
00:25:06,173 --> 00:25:07,875
but you know,
Capitol police will be fine."

373
00:25:13,614 --> 00:25:15,116
Our house!

374
00:25:16,417 --> 00:25:18,586
USA! USA!

375
00:25:18,652 --> 00:25:22,590
USA! USA! USA!

376
00:25:22,656 --> 00:25:24,692
USA! USA!

377
00:25:24,759 --> 00:25:26,293
Let's go, let's go.

378
00:25:34,702 --> 00:25:39,106
While that
first wave of people breached
the West Side of the Capitol,

379
00:25:39,173 --> 00:25:42,977
we get the call that
we have a suspicious package,

380
00:25:43,044 --> 00:25:47,415
one at the RNC, another
suspicious package at the DNC.

381
00:25:47,481 --> 00:25:50,217
And these things turned out
to be, like, real pipe bombs.

382
00:25:50,284 --> 00:25:53,120
We the people!
We the people!

383
00:25:53,187 --> 00:25:55,089
And almost simultaneously,

384
00:25:55,156 --> 00:25:58,859
we also get the call
as the Metropolitan
Police Department

385
00:25:58,926 --> 00:26:02,363
to come in to assist with
what's going on at the Capitol.

386
00:26:07,802 --> 00:26:11,238
And this is local law
enforcement coming to the aid
of the federal government.

387
00:26:11,305 --> 00:26:12,973
We don't do that in the
Metropolitan Police Department.

388
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,443
It's not our area
of responsibility.

389
00:26:23,684 --> 00:26:25,252
We were broken up
into three squads,

390
00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:27,388
and I remember we're getting
ready for the day,

391
00:26:27,455 --> 00:26:29,123
and we're like it's just
going to be a normal day,

392
00:26:29,190 --> 00:26:31,025
you know they just needed
more manpower just in case.

393
00:26:31,092 --> 00:26:34,261
And within seconds,
the radio goes off.

394
00:26:34,328 --> 00:26:36,931
And everything just changed.

395
00:26:36,997 --> 00:26:40,067
The mood that we were just in
30 seconds ago was, was gone.

396
00:26:40,134 --> 00:26:46,474
USA! USA! USA! USA!

397
00:26:46,541 --> 00:26:49,511
The scene was so chaotic
on the West front of the Capitol

398
00:26:49,578 --> 00:26:51,445
that the US Capitol police

399
00:26:51,513 --> 00:26:54,448
requested the services
of the National Guard.

400
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,530
Every minute was precious,
as far as I'm concerned.

401
00:27:08,597 --> 00:27:10,097
We got what's happening
at the Capitol.

402
00:27:10,164 --> 00:27:13,234
We got pipe bombs at the RNC
and DNC-- real pipe bombs.

403
00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:16,070
We got members deployed there,
and we still have this

404
00:27:16,137 --> 00:27:19,006
large group of people that
have not even stepped off

405
00:27:19,073 --> 00:27:21,842
from the Ellipse to make
their way towards the Capitol.

406
00:27:21,909 --> 00:27:25,279
Right here, we're going
to walk down to the Capitol!

407
00:27:30,818 --> 00:27:34,623
The kind of pride and boldness
that they need

408
00:27:34,688 --> 00:27:36,190
to take back our country.

409
00:27:36,257 --> 00:27:39,927
So, let's walk down
Pennsylvania Avenue.

410
00:27:39,994 --> 00:27:41,630
I want to thank you all,

411
00:27:41,695 --> 00:27:45,399
God bless you
and God bless America.

412
00:27:45,466 --> 00:27:46,734
Thank you all for being here.

413
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,603
This is incredible.
Thank you very much.

414
00:27:48,669 --> 00:27:51,739
Whooooo!

415
00:27:51,805 --> 00:27:55,442
1776! 1776!

416
00:27:55,510 --> 00:27:57,845
After the President finished
his speech,

417
00:27:57,912 --> 00:27:59,280
there was just like, you know,

418
00:27:59,346 --> 00:28:02,416
wave after wave
after wave of people,

419
00:28:02,483 --> 00:28:05,654
who didn't even have a barricade
to walk by at this point.

420
00:28:05,719 --> 00:28:07,421
I mean, it's just a mob
of people.

421
00:28:10,691 --> 00:28:12,960
On the way to the Capitol
building--

422
00:28:20,768 --> 00:28:22,836
-Whose flag?
-Our flag!

423
00:28:22,903 --> 00:28:25,005
-Whose streets?
Our streets!

424
00:28:25,406 --> 00:28:27,041
-Yeah!
-God Bless America, baby!

425
00:28:27,107 --> 00:28:28,075
How you feeling, Nate?

426
00:28:28,677 --> 00:28:31,312
Oh, I'm feeling ready,
bro. Readier than ever.

427
00:28:33,113 --> 00:28:34,381
They're
evacuating the building.

428
00:28:34,448 --> 00:28:36,750
Occupy the Capitol.
Our building.

429
00:28:36,817 --> 00:28:37,851
They're
evacuating the building.

430
00:28:37,918 --> 00:28:39,153
Nobody else's building.

431
00:28:39,220 --> 00:28:40,054
It's ours...

432
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,823
<i>♪ ...marching on ♪</i>

433
00:28:42,890 --> 00:28:45,426
<i>♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪</i>

434
00:28:45,492 --> 00:28:50,130
Then, once I got to the Capitol,
the "oh shit" moment

435
00:28:50,197 --> 00:28:53,167
really happened
where you're like, fuck!

436
00:28:53,234 --> 00:28:54,802
We live for freedom!

437
00:28:56,403 --> 00:28:57,539
Come see it.

438
00:28:57,606 --> 00:28:58,906
Come see these people
take this house back.

439
00:28:58,973 --> 00:29:00,374
Come see it.

440
00:29:01,809 --> 00:29:06,814
This looks like some shit
out of a crazy-ass movie set.

441
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,315
This is democracy!

442
00:29:08,516 --> 00:29:11,118
This is what you get
with rule of the mob!

443
00:29:11,418 --> 00:29:14,288
I get up to this structure,
and I just hear people saying,

444
00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:16,390
"Everyone gotta get off,
it's too many people,

445
00:29:16,457 --> 00:29:17,992
this is gonna collapse."

446
00:29:19,927 --> 00:29:21,328
Stop the steal!

447
00:29:25,299 --> 00:29:27,101
Where are people gonna go?

448
00:29:27,167 --> 00:29:29,203
Are people actually gonna
go in the fucking building?

449
00:29:29,270 --> 00:29:30,871
Like what the hell is happening?

450
00:29:30,938 --> 00:29:32,106
Where are the police?

451
00:29:32,172 --> 00:29:33,874
We want Trump!

452
00:29:33,941 --> 00:29:35,476
We want Trump!

453
00:29:35,543 --> 00:29:37,111
We're at the gate,
we're coming through

454
00:29:37,177 --> 00:29:38,779
this motherfucker tonight.

455
00:29:38,846 --> 00:29:40,014
We're at the door.

456
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,849
We're right here,
we're coming in.

457
00:29:41,915 --> 00:29:43,718
We're not stopping, goddamnit!

458
00:29:44,084 --> 00:29:46,287
This is our house
motherfuckers!

459
00:29:46,721 --> 00:29:47,988
USA!

460
00:29:55,062 --> 00:29:57,131
DC 42,
disregard Constitution.

461
00:29:57,197 --> 00:29:59,233
...will respond over there.

462
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:01,135
We received the order
to go to the Capitol,

463
00:30:01,201 --> 00:30:03,370
and we were putting on our gear
when eventually our sergeant

464
00:30:03,437 --> 00:30:06,006
said, "All right, that's enough,
whatever you got on
is gonna be it.

465
00:30:06,073 --> 00:30:07,441
It's time to move."

466
00:30:07,509 --> 00:30:10,210
So, we all got in the van
and started driving.

467
00:30:19,453 --> 00:30:22,657
I was racing faster than
I've ever driven a police car

468
00:30:22,724 --> 00:30:23,857
in my life to get down there.

469
00:30:26,594 --> 00:30:28,962
When we got out of the car,
there were thousands

470
00:30:29,029 --> 00:30:30,297
and thousands of people.

471
00:30:34,168 --> 00:30:36,236
There was no orders
at that point.

472
00:30:36,303 --> 00:30:39,173
There was too much going on
to have any type of orders,

473
00:30:39,239 --> 00:30:41,475
and I did not think that
we were going to be able

474
00:30:41,543 --> 00:30:42,777
to get through the crowd.

475
00:30:42,843 --> 00:30:44,445
I didn't think they would
allow us to get through.

476
00:30:54,455 --> 00:30:56,524
This is our 1776.

477
00:30:56,591 --> 00:30:59,493
We need to continue
to storm this Capitol.

478
00:30:59,561 --> 00:31:02,896
Do not let police through,
they are traitors.

479
00:31:23,450 --> 00:31:25,052
There were so many people.

480
00:31:28,088 --> 00:31:29,923
They had us comically
outnumbered.

481
00:31:31,693 --> 00:31:33,695
One guy asked me,
"Are you my brother?"

482
00:31:33,762 --> 00:31:35,996
It took me a second to process
what he was asking me.

483
00:31:36,063 --> 00:31:39,500
"Do you actually think
I want to overthrow
the government with you?"

484
00:31:42,202 --> 00:31:44,739
If it was just the couple
hundred that committed

485
00:31:44,806 --> 00:31:47,709
the extreme acts of violence,
we coulda handled that.

486
00:31:47,776 --> 00:31:50,879
It's the thousands and thousands
of people backing them up.

487
00:31:54,214 --> 00:31:55,750
It was the crowd
that was the weapon.

488
00:32:00,487 --> 00:32:03,390
I'm seeing objects
being flown at us,

489
00:32:03,457 --> 00:32:04,893
screaming at other
officers to duck

490
00:32:04,958 --> 00:32:06,628
because they're about
to get hit with a brick.

491
00:32:12,099 --> 00:32:13,735
They started attacking us.

492
00:32:13,802 --> 00:32:15,402
One guy tried to grab my baton.

493
00:32:15,469 --> 00:32:17,471
I was taking blows
from all sides.

494
00:32:17,539 --> 00:32:20,140
I felt something heavy
come down into my head.

495
00:32:20,207 --> 00:32:22,510
Eventually I went to the ground,

496
00:32:24,344 --> 00:32:28,081
and the guy I was wrestling with
kicked me in the chest.

497
00:32:30,451 --> 00:32:32,453
The medical mask I was wearing
at the time had actually

498
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,690
gotten pulled up over my eyes,
so when I was on the ground

499
00:32:35,757 --> 00:32:39,326
on all fours I was also blind,
and I was afraid I was just

500
00:32:39,393 --> 00:32:41,161
about to get dogpiled
and destroyed.

501
00:32:49,970 --> 00:32:53,474
I lost my radio, my baton,

502
00:32:55,275 --> 00:32:58,445
uh, I can't remember now, but
a few other pieces of equipment.

503
00:32:58,513 --> 00:33:00,748
You couldn't defend yourself
and your gear at the same time,

504
00:33:00,815 --> 00:33:02,382
so you just had to let it go.

505
00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:10,457
When I, thankfully
got back up on my feet,

506
00:33:10,525 --> 00:33:12,125
I led my platoon
through the crowd

507
00:33:12,192 --> 00:33:14,495
until we got to
the terrace proper,

508
00:33:14,562 --> 00:33:17,565
and we joined Capitol police
and the rest of MPD there.

509
00:33:20,869 --> 00:33:22,971
You couldn't get any closer
to the Capitol at that point

510
00:33:23,036 --> 00:33:24,739
without going inside, honestly.

511
00:33:24,806 --> 00:33:27,909
So, I knew at that point
that it was imperative

512
00:33:27,976 --> 00:33:29,409
that we keep them out.

513
00:33:33,447 --> 00:33:35,048
Fuck you!

514
00:33:35,115 --> 00:33:36,350
Fuck you!

515
00:33:37,752 --> 00:33:41,121
You're a fucking scumbag!
Scumbag!

516
00:33:41,188 --> 00:33:43,190
You're all fucking scumbags!

517
00:33:43,257 --> 00:33:46,059
You swore a fucking
oath to this country!

518
00:33:46,126 --> 00:33:48,262
That's me right there.

519
00:33:48,328 --> 00:33:51,231
Once I got to the Capitol,
as I walk down the steps

520
00:33:51,298 --> 00:33:53,300
to the West Front,
on this white marble

521
00:33:53,367 --> 00:33:56,571
you're seeing police officers'
gear, blood,

522
00:33:56,638 --> 00:33:59,741
anything and everything that you
can think of that would happen

523
00:33:59,807 --> 00:34:03,210
in a fight, it was happening
right there on the West Front.

524
00:34:09,349 --> 00:34:13,086
Well, fuck you guys! You
can't call yourselves Americans!

525
00:34:13,153 --> 00:34:16,024
You broke your fucking
oath today!

526
00:34:16,089 --> 00:34:18,191
1776, man!

527
00:34:22,129 --> 00:34:25,265
When we go through our training,
we are required to get sprayed

528
00:34:25,332 --> 00:34:28,937
with OC, which is pepper spray,
so we know how we react,

529
00:34:29,003 --> 00:34:30,638
we know how our body reacts.

530
00:34:30,705 --> 00:34:32,040
It was not fun.

531
00:34:32,105 --> 00:34:34,842
It lasts for about 45 minutes
before you can see again,

532
00:34:34,909 --> 00:34:36,611
you feel better again.

533
00:34:36,678 --> 00:34:37,812
Bear mace--

534
00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:42,884
compared to that,
OC is, like, on level 10.

535
00:34:43,417 --> 00:34:45,152
I was just blinded.

536
00:34:46,821 --> 00:34:48,056
You okay?

537
00:34:48,155 --> 00:34:49,289
I just can't open my eyes.

538
00:34:49,356 --> 00:34:50,858
Okay, need some more water?

539
00:34:53,327 --> 00:34:54,529
Oh, my God.

540
00:34:54,596 --> 00:34:56,096
I know. You're blinded, right?

541
00:34:57,397 --> 00:34:59,801
They're throwing shit,
so I'm just going to put this
on top of your head.

542
00:34:59,867 --> 00:35:01,168
Alright.

543
00:35:01,234 --> 00:35:02,436
- Just in case.
- Alright.

544
00:35:02,503 --> 00:35:03,938
I don't want you to get hit.

545
00:35:04,005 --> 00:35:06,173
You're just hopeless
and helpless at that point.

546
00:35:07,474 --> 00:35:08,843
- Can I get more water?
- Yeah.

547
00:35:34,267 --> 00:35:35,703
I'm representing our president.

548
00:35:35,770 --> 00:35:37,270
He won this election.

549
00:35:37,337 --> 00:35:39,941
This was stolen from us,
and a million people

550
00:35:40,008 --> 00:35:42,242
are standing in front of
the Capitol, and we know it.

551
00:35:46,614 --> 00:35:48,816
Are there any objections
to counting the certificate

552
00:35:48,883 --> 00:35:50,918
of vote from the state
of Arizona?

553
00:35:50,985 --> 00:35:54,055
We began the counting of
Electoral College votes,

554
00:35:54,287 --> 00:35:56,891
and Arizona was the first one
where there were objections.

555
00:35:57,357 --> 00:36:00,460
Is the objection in writing
and signed by a Senator?

556
00:36:00,528 --> 00:36:02,764
-Yes, it is.
-It is.

557
00:36:04,565 --> 00:36:08,036
Something like 50 or 60
Republicans got up to object.

558
00:36:08,102 --> 00:36:11,572
And at that point, the joint
session immediately breaks,

559
00:36:11,639 --> 00:36:13,041
and the House and the Senate
resolve into

560
00:36:13,107 --> 00:36:16,978
our separate chambers
to debate the challenges.

561
00:36:17,045 --> 00:36:22,282
I look back up in the gallery
to see that Tabitha
and Hank were there.

562
00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:25,452
And then it was my turn
to get up,

563
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,590
my basic point was going
to be that the election is over.

564
00:36:29,657 --> 00:36:33,127
It's not our job to vote for the
person we want to be President;

565
00:36:33,193 --> 00:36:39,266
it's our job to certify
the votes that have come in
from the governors.

566
00:36:39,332 --> 00:36:40,668
That's what the job is.

567
00:36:40,735 --> 00:36:43,571
But before getting into it,
I took a second

568
00:36:43,638 --> 00:36:47,108
just to thank the Speaker
and all of the Members

569
00:36:47,175 --> 00:36:50,011
for their condolences.

570
00:36:50,078 --> 00:36:53,413
The gentleman is recognized
without objection for five
minutes.

571
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,482
Madam Speaker,
I wanna thank you first,

572
00:36:55,550 --> 00:36:58,418
and-- and all my dear, beloved
colleagues for your love

573
00:36:58,485 --> 00:37:00,021
and tenderness,
which my family

574
00:37:00,088 --> 00:37:02,322
and I will never forget.

575
00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:05,927
And then, there was this
huge standing ovation...

576
00:37:23,745 --> 00:37:26,279
It was jarring
and disorienting for me

577
00:37:26,346 --> 00:37:30,283
because I could kind of see

578
00:37:30,350 --> 00:37:34,922
them looking at me,

579
00:37:34,989 --> 00:37:37,525
or into me as

580
00:37:37,592 --> 00:37:42,295
a person embodying
tragedy at that point.

581
00:37:44,999 --> 00:37:47,869
It was really a lovely,
wonderful gesture,

582
00:37:47,935 --> 00:37:51,105
but I'm not sure
I totally understood it.

583
00:37:51,172 --> 00:37:57,145
But then I started thinking,
in my kind of sleepless,

584
00:37:57,245 --> 00:38:00,380
disjointed way, "Well, maybe
everyone's love of Tommy,

585
00:38:04,051 --> 00:38:07,855
or sympathy for our family,
would lead to an end

586
00:38:07,922 --> 00:38:10,758
of all of this fighting
over the election."

587
00:38:10,825 --> 00:38:14,494
Maybe they would withdraw
the Stop the Steal campaign,

588
00:38:14,562 --> 00:38:16,664
and they would stop
telling the Big Lie.

589
00:38:16,731 --> 00:38:19,700
It was obviously
a completely irrational thought,

590
00:38:19,767 --> 00:38:22,603
but that's what passed
through my mind right there,

591
00:38:22,670 --> 00:38:25,940
because there was this huge
outpouring of emotion

592
00:38:26,007 --> 00:38:27,041
in this standing ovation.

593
00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:33,014
And then it was
over, and then I launched
into my real speech.

594
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:34,949
Thank you again.

595
00:38:35,016 --> 00:38:40,288
Abraham Lincoln, whose name
is a comfort to us all,

596
00:38:40,353 --> 00:38:41,889
said we've got
the best government...

597
00:38:41,956 --> 00:38:44,324
So still at that
point, we had no reason to think

598
00:38:44,391 --> 00:38:49,797
that there was medieval-style
fighting breaking out outside.

599
00:38:49,864 --> 00:38:52,967
We were ready in the way
you'd be ready in a courtroom

600
00:38:53,034 --> 00:38:56,270
or a classroom,
but we weren't ready

601
00:38:56,336 --> 00:39:00,308
in the way we
should've been for
what was about to take place.

602
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,649
Take their guns!
Take their guns!

603
00:39:17,658 --> 00:39:19,060
Robert Glover,
who's now the Commander

604
00:39:19,392 --> 00:39:21,295
of our Special
Operations Division,

605
00:39:21,361 --> 00:39:24,165
I heard some things in his voice
that I've never heard before.

606
00:39:24,232 --> 00:39:26,033
Pull them! Pull them this way!

607
00:39:36,944 --> 00:39:38,312
Commander Glover, you know,

608
00:39:38,378 --> 00:39:39,881
he knew that we were
losing ground,

609
00:39:39,947 --> 00:39:41,448
and he had no problem
letting us know,

610
00:39:41,515 --> 00:39:43,450
"We're losing ground,
we need to back up."

611
00:39:43,517 --> 00:39:45,119
Because we were outnumbered.

612
00:39:45,186 --> 00:39:47,021
We were outnumbered.

613
00:39:47,088 --> 00:39:50,992
It was such a wide line of
people going back for--

614
00:39:51,058 --> 00:39:52,860
this is an exaggeration,
but for miles--

615
00:39:52,927 --> 00:39:54,829
you know, that's how it felt.

616
00:39:54,896 --> 00:39:57,365
What are you going to do
when we defend our Constitution

617
00:39:57,430 --> 00:39:58,431
with the Second Amendment?

618
00:39:58,498 --> 00:40:01,434
What are you going to do then?

619
00:40:23,423 --> 00:40:25,760
<i>All people must leave</i>
<i>the area immediately.</i>

620
00:40:25,826 --> 00:40:29,263
<i>If you don't follow this order,</i>
<i>it may subject you to arrest.</i>

621
00:40:29,330 --> 00:40:32,767
These police officers were
completely overwhelmed by

622
00:40:32,833 --> 00:40:35,836
the thousands of people that
were next to me, behind me,

623
00:40:35,903 --> 00:40:37,705
around me.

624
00:40:40,408 --> 00:40:43,044
There were definitely
ex-military personnel.

625
00:40:43,110 --> 00:40:44,679
Ex-police.

626
00:40:44,745 --> 00:40:46,514
There were people that
knew what they were doing,

627
00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:50,017
knew how to lead people,
and if I step back,

628
00:40:50,084 --> 00:40:53,654
I can start hearing
people say that, you know,

629
00:40:53,721 --> 00:40:55,089
they are going in.

630
00:40:55,156 --> 00:40:57,858
This is, you know,
"We are going to go inside,

631
00:40:57,925 --> 00:41:02,063
Donald Trump is meeting us here,
and if you don't let us in,

632
00:41:02,129 --> 00:41:04,165
we're going
to fuck some shit up."

633
00:41:04,231 --> 00:41:07,535
Right now,
the people in the Capitol
are sheltering in place.

634
00:41:07,601 --> 00:41:09,136
We have the Capitol.

635
00:41:11,038 --> 00:41:13,174
There's just
so much that's going on.

636
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:16,344
And from a command standpoint--
a Chief of Police standpoint--

637
00:41:16,410 --> 00:41:19,113
I need to be in a position
where I can command

638
00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:20,848
what's happening
for the entire city,

639
00:41:20,915 --> 00:41:22,984
and the mayor needs to know

640
00:41:23,050 --> 00:41:25,252
exactly what's going on
at that point.

641
00:41:25,319 --> 00:41:28,422
And I told her that I would
meet her at our command center.

642
00:41:34,662 --> 00:41:37,398
Now I have a view of what's
happening at the Capitol.

643
00:41:37,465 --> 00:41:39,300
I have a view of what's
happening at the Ellipse,

644
00:41:39,367 --> 00:41:41,902
I have a view of what's
happening at Freedom Plaza.

645
00:41:41,969 --> 00:41:43,571
I was sending
everything that I had

646
00:41:43,637 --> 00:41:45,706
because our democracy
was under attack.

647
00:41:45,773 --> 00:41:50,044
What we really needed to see
were National Guardsmen

648
00:41:50,111 --> 00:41:51,278
at the US Capitol.

649
00:42:00,021 --> 00:42:02,223
At that point,
we had a phone call

650
00:42:02,289 --> 00:42:03,991
that was convened by myself,

651
00:42:04,058 --> 00:42:05,593
by the Mayor of the District
of Columbia,

652
00:42:06,093 --> 00:42:08,796
several representatives
of the DC National Guard,

653
00:42:08,863 --> 00:42:11,799
the US Capitol Police Chief,
where he essentially was

654
00:42:11,866 --> 00:42:14,869
pleading for assistance
from the National Guard.

655
00:42:14,935 --> 00:42:16,937
I just simply said,
"Wait a minute.

656
00:42:17,004 --> 00:42:20,808
What I hear is the Chief
of the Capitol Police

657
00:42:20,875 --> 00:42:23,611
asking for additional resources
from the National Guard

658
00:42:23,677 --> 00:42:26,647
to be deployed
to the US Capitol.

659
00:42:26,714 --> 00:42:28,449
Chief, is that
what you're saying?'

660
00:42:28,517 --> 00:42:30,217
This is on a bridge call.

661
00:42:30,284 --> 00:42:32,319
He said, "That is exactly
what I'm saying."

662
00:42:32,386 --> 00:42:33,921
Chief Sund said that.

663
00:42:33,988 --> 00:42:37,925
In response to that,
whoever on the other side,

664
00:42:37,992 --> 00:42:42,129
from the representatives
from the Defense Department,

665
00:42:42,196 --> 00:42:46,434
the discussion then switched
to talking about optics,

666
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:48,936
and boots on the ground,
and what that would look like,

667
00:42:49,003 --> 00:42:51,806
which, you know,
in a crisis situation,

668
00:42:51,872 --> 00:42:54,809
I don't care what it looks like.
It looks like help to me.

669
00:43:10,491 --> 00:43:13,427
So, I asked all who
were on this call,

670
00:43:13,494 --> 00:43:16,297
"Are you saying that you're
not going to deploy personnel?"

671
00:43:16,363 --> 00:43:19,333
"No, we're not saying that,
what we are saying is that

672
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,502
optics, and this and that
and so forth."

673
00:43:21,570 --> 00:43:22,903
It was very disturbing.

674
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:57,171
This is a bad situation,
we have to do the best we can

675
00:43:57,238 --> 00:44:00,808
to defend this Capitol,
to defend our democracy

676
00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:02,243
with everything that we got.

677
00:44:07,815 --> 00:44:10,885
Apparently, the National
Guard were blocks away.

678
00:44:11,252 --> 00:44:14,155
That makes me mad,
because I don't even know-

679
00:44:14,221 --> 00:44:18,527
I don't even wanna know
how many officers were there

680
00:44:18,593 --> 00:44:20,027
that could have helped us...

681
00:44:21,362 --> 00:44:23,731
I don't even wanna know,
because that will just

682
00:44:25,199 --> 00:44:26,433
blow me up.

683
00:44:27,536 --> 00:44:30,505
As someone who served six years
in the Virginia National Guard,

684
00:44:30,572 --> 00:44:33,807
I was aware of the National
Guard and how they could

685
00:44:33,874 --> 00:44:35,309
possibly respond.

686
00:44:35,376 --> 00:44:38,679
I also knew that they
take time to respond.

687
00:44:38,746 --> 00:44:41,849
I don't know why anyone
would've delayed that.

688
00:44:47,721 --> 00:44:51,660
My officers didn't know that
not only were they breaching

689
00:44:51,725 --> 00:44:55,729
the West Side of the Capitol,
the East Side of the Capitol

690
00:44:55,796 --> 00:44:57,464
was also being breached.

691
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:08,943
USA! USA! USA!

692
00:45:17,885 --> 00:45:20,754
So, they had essentially
been surrounded.

693
00:45:25,660 --> 00:45:28,963
It just kept getting crazier
and crazier and crazier...

694
00:45:42,677 --> 00:45:44,411
We're taking it!

695
00:45:44,478 --> 00:45:45,946
We're storming the House!

696
00:45:49,817 --> 00:45:53,521
I was saying to people,
"Where are we going?
What are we doing?"

697
00:45:53,588 --> 00:45:57,626
It was a lot of, we, we,
we, we, we to comfort them,

698
00:45:57,692 --> 00:45:59,226
you know?

699
00:45:59,293 --> 00:46:02,363
And it's also a way to comfort
myself to like, you know,

700
00:46:02,429 --> 00:46:05,866
so I can feel safer to let
you know that I am not a threat.

701
00:46:05,933 --> 00:46:08,035
I have cameras,
but not a threat.

702
00:46:38,065 --> 00:46:39,333
It's gonna be a stampede.

703
00:46:39,701 --> 00:46:41,135
In my mind, I'm like, "I don't
know if I'm being dramatic,

704
00:46:41,201 --> 00:46:42,637
but this might turn
into a stampede."

705
00:46:42,704 --> 00:46:45,973
I don't know if we can
control this or contain it.

706
00:47:12,801 --> 00:47:18,707
I remember watching as police
officers were clearly exhausted.

707
00:47:18,773 --> 00:47:20,374
It started to look abnormal.

708
00:47:22,142 --> 00:47:24,713
And then there was like
a beeping in the office.

709
00:47:26,681 --> 00:47:28,849
I guess there's some sort of
security device in the office

710
00:47:28,916 --> 00:47:31,285
that I never knew existed.

711
00:47:31,352 --> 00:47:33,053
Then we started getting
directives from

712
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,557
our chief of staff,
from the office manager.

713
00:47:35,623 --> 00:47:37,491
She told me to wear flats,

714
00:47:37,559 --> 00:47:39,493
and she told me
to pack up my bags.

715
00:47:53,374 --> 00:47:57,044
<i>Person outside has attempted</i>
<i>to enter on the Senate side</i>

716
00:47:57,111 --> 00:47:58,879
<i>of the building.</i>

717
00:47:58,946 --> 00:48:01,482
We had a television in the
office, we also had windows,

718
00:48:01,549 --> 00:48:04,084
so we could see that they
were clearly, you know,

719
00:48:04,151 --> 00:48:05,587
closing in on us.

720
00:48:10,625 --> 00:48:14,061
But despite the beeping,
despite huddling

721
00:48:14,128 --> 00:48:17,532
in the Congressman's office,
nothing made it real

722
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:20,401
until those people
actually got inside.

723
00:48:32,847 --> 00:48:37,918
I first got a text from a
friend in California saying,

724
00:48:37,985 --> 00:48:39,386
"Are you okay?
Is everything alright?"

725
00:48:39,453 --> 00:48:41,623
And I said, "Yes,
what do you mean?"

726
00:48:41,689 --> 00:48:44,826
And she said, "There's
a breach in the Capitol.

727
00:48:44,893 --> 00:48:46,728
There's violence outside."

728
00:48:46,795 --> 00:48:48,996
And I looked around the room
and I noticed that

729
00:48:49,062 --> 00:48:51,733
lots of people
were getting messages

730
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,568
and people
were beginning to talk.

731
00:49:06,180 --> 00:49:10,652
Within a couple of minutes,
Speaker Pelosi's security detail

732
00:49:10,718 --> 00:49:12,720
escorted her off of the floor.

733
00:49:24,899 --> 00:49:26,868
Some people on our side
of the aisle began to scream,

734
00:49:26,935 --> 00:49:30,070
"This is because of you,
this is what you wanted."

735
00:49:32,272 --> 00:49:35,209
I immediately looked back up
into the gallery.

736
00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:37,612
Tabitha and Hank
were no longer there.

737
00:50:05,607 --> 00:50:07,675
Oh, Nancy!

738
00:50:07,742 --> 00:50:09,409
Where are you, Nancy?

739
00:50:09,476 --> 00:50:12,747
Our office was right above
Nancy Pelosi's office,

740
00:50:12,814 --> 00:50:14,314
the Speaker of the House.

741
00:50:14,381 --> 00:50:17,384
Three of my colleagues went out,
and our staff assistant

742
00:50:17,451 --> 00:50:22,189
said she came
face to face with one of
the insurrectionists.

743
00:50:22,256 --> 00:50:24,826
We were in the room,
and she was banging on the door,

744
00:50:24,893 --> 00:50:26,126
and she said, "They're inside.

745
00:50:26,193 --> 00:50:28,095
They're inside. Let me in!"

746
00:50:28,161 --> 00:50:29,697
They were extremely rattled.

747
00:50:29,764 --> 00:50:31,833
And they said that we
needed to stay here.

748
00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:33,601
Like we cannot leave.

749
00:50:33,668 --> 00:50:36,169
That was, I think
the turning point for me.

750
00:50:41,576 --> 00:50:44,144
I called Julie,
my Chief of Staff,

751
00:50:44,211 --> 00:50:48,115
and she said they were
back in Steny's office.

752
00:50:49,017 --> 00:50:50,752
They had locked the door.

753
00:50:50,818 --> 00:50:54,556
She said they had pushed all the
furniture up against the door.

754
00:50:59,126 --> 00:51:02,931
The kids were hiding under,

755
00:51:02,997 --> 00:51:05,033
uh, a desk.

756
00:51:05,098 --> 00:51:09,771
And I learned later that Julie
had taken the-- the fire pick

757
00:51:09,837 --> 00:51:13,307
outta the fireplace and was
wielding it as-- as a weapon.

758
00:51:13,373 --> 00:51:16,209
And I told her to protect
them with her life.

759
00:51:18,646 --> 00:51:20,113
This is our fucking house.

760
00:51:20,180 --> 00:51:21,616
Our house.

761
00:51:28,422 --> 00:51:30,324
I heard the elevator open,

762
00:51:30,390 --> 00:51:32,492
and I heard them
come up the stairwell,

763
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,996
and so we decided
to stay in place,

764
00:51:35,063 --> 00:51:39,033
turn the lights out and to
just be as quiet as possible

765
00:51:39,099 --> 00:51:40,802
and to barricade the doors.

766
00:51:42,070 --> 00:51:44,539
I had to assume the worst.

767
00:51:44,606 --> 00:51:46,908
I had to assume these
people were armed.

768
00:51:47,809 --> 00:51:49,476
You kind of go
into survival mode,

769
00:51:49,544 --> 00:51:52,080
like I remember essentially
casing the office, like,

770
00:51:52,145 --> 00:51:54,214
"What can I use as a weapon?"

771
00:51:54,281 --> 00:51:57,085
I remember feeling like

772
00:51:57,150 --> 00:52:02,090
whatever is in here that is
heavy is what I'll have to use,

773
00:52:02,155 --> 00:52:04,692
you know, if it comes to that.

774
00:52:18,906 --> 00:52:22,442
We want Trump! We want Trump!

775
00:52:26,781 --> 00:52:28,716
Fuck you,
you fuckin' tyrants!

776
00:52:34,488 --> 00:52:37,759
Whenever I see footage from that
day, it makes my heart race.

777
00:52:37,825 --> 00:52:39,894
You know, I can feel blood--
my blood pressure shoot up,

778
00:52:42,997 --> 00:52:46,266
and it makes me angry.

779
00:52:46,333 --> 00:52:48,936
Lay down your weapons!

780
00:52:49,003 --> 00:52:51,873
Those weapons belong to us!

781
00:52:51,939 --> 00:52:54,642
That helmet, 4-5-1-8,
belongs to me!

782
00:52:54,709 --> 00:52:59,013
Give me my helmet!
Give me my helmet!

783
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:00,581
Now, Hodges!

784
00:53:00,648 --> 00:53:03,117
<i>D. Hodges,</i>
<i>lay down your weapons!</i>

785
00:53:03,183 --> 00:53:07,187
<i>4-5-1-8,</i>
<i>give me my helmet!</i>

786
00:53:07,254 --> 00:53:08,321
<i>I want my helmet!</i>

787
00:53:08,388 --> 00:53:10,558
Gimme my helmet!

788
00:53:10,625 --> 00:53:13,193
That helmet belongs to me!

789
00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:15,262
<i>I paid for that helmet!</i>

790
00:53:15,328 --> 00:53:17,264
<i>I paid for that vest!</i>

791
00:53:17,330 --> 00:53:18,966
<i>I paid for your salary!</i>

792
00:53:19,033 --> 00:53:20,267
<i>Traitor!</i>

793
00:53:24,237 --> 00:53:26,206
You're a bunch of sheep, sheep!

794
00:53:26,273 --> 00:53:29,342
There was just sensory
overload of threats that,

795
00:53:29,409 --> 00:53:31,278
I'm scanning the crowd
rather than paying attention to

796
00:53:31,344 --> 00:53:33,748
what people are shouting at me
because I'm constantly looking

797
00:53:33,815 --> 00:53:35,917
for, uh, someone who's about
to bring out a gun or a knife

798
00:53:35,983 --> 00:53:38,686
or something because I know
that they have them on them.

799
00:53:38,753 --> 00:53:42,056
And I just have to hope
that if I see that I can
react before they do.

800
00:53:44,192 --> 00:53:47,161
At one point I look over my
shoulder and I see the officers

801
00:53:47,227 --> 00:53:49,630
trying to hold them back
and failing

802
00:53:49,697 --> 00:53:52,166
because their numbers
are overwhelming.

803
00:53:57,705 --> 00:54:01,876
At that point, I see
the line break, essentially.

804
00:54:13,554 --> 00:54:15,489
You better run, cops!

805
00:54:38,913 --> 00:54:41,249
Each officer just engages
in a pitched battle

806
00:54:41,314 --> 00:54:43,084
with whatever's
in front of them.

807
00:54:43,151 --> 00:54:46,319
People swinging things at our
heads-- sticks, metal poles.

808
00:54:52,026 --> 00:54:54,996
One Sergeant was hit
with a cattle prod.

809
00:54:56,164 --> 00:54:58,032
There was a sledgehammer.

810
00:54:58,099 --> 00:54:59,901
I had someone try
to gouge my eye out.

811
00:55:04,705 --> 00:55:07,241
These people like to believe
that they support blue lives,

812
00:55:07,307 --> 00:55:11,646
but someone came up to me
while I was surrounded and said,

813
00:55:11,712 --> 00:55:13,514
"Things are gonna get real bad.

814
00:55:13,581 --> 00:55:16,918
We need to get you out of here.
What can I do to help?"

815
00:55:16,984 --> 00:55:18,719
And I said, "Go home."

816
00:55:18,786 --> 00:55:20,788
And he said,
"Not gonna happen."

817
00:55:22,623 --> 00:55:25,126
And at that point,
there's not much left to say.

818
00:55:40,241 --> 00:55:41,542
Let's go, MPD
double time inside.

819
00:55:41,609 --> 00:55:44,545
Let's go.
Let's go, MPD.

820
00:55:44,612 --> 00:55:46,413
Stop fucking looking
at them, let's go!

821
00:55:46,479 --> 00:55:49,050
Get inside.
Goddamn, let's get inside!

822
00:55:51,185 --> 00:55:54,487
To be honest,
I don't even remember
getting inside the Capitol.

823
00:55:54,555 --> 00:55:56,657
We were funneled into
the Capitol at some point.

824
00:55:59,492 --> 00:56:01,329
I don't know anything
about this building.

825
00:56:01,762 --> 00:56:03,598
I remember running up to Capitol
officers, and there was

826
00:56:03,664 --> 00:56:06,701
only a couple of 'em. I would
say, "How do I get here
and here?"

827
00:56:06,767 --> 00:56:09,502
"I don't know.
I don't work in this building."

828
00:56:34,996 --> 00:56:36,931
Our house! Whose house?

829
00:56:36,998 --> 00:56:38,599
Our house! Whose house?

830
00:56:38,666 --> 00:56:40,101
Our house! Whose house?

831
00:56:40,534 --> 00:56:42,203
Our house! Whose house?

832
00:56:42,270 --> 00:56:44,005
Our house! Whose house?

833
00:56:44,071 --> 00:56:45,373
Our house! Whose house?

834
00:56:45,438 --> 00:56:47,308
Our house! Whose house?

835
00:56:47,375 --> 00:56:50,778
There were two sets of doors
in the Congressman's office,

836
00:56:50,845 --> 00:56:52,313
so my colleagues
on the other side of the office

837
00:56:52,380 --> 00:56:56,984
barricaded one set,
we barricaded the other set.

838
00:56:59,020 --> 00:57:02,723
Um, and you know, there was
just a lot of, you know,

839
00:57:02,790 --> 00:57:05,159
I had a coworker who's
a really good friend of mine,

840
00:57:05,226 --> 00:57:07,962
and she was, you know,
very, very pregnant.

841
00:57:08,029 --> 00:57:09,563
So, you know,
she couldn't do it.

842
00:57:09,630 --> 00:57:13,401
Um, and we had
photographers in the room.

843
00:57:13,466 --> 00:57:15,770
Some of them were taking
pictures instead of helping.

844
00:57:15,836 --> 00:57:18,139
And I remember being really,
really annoyed with them

845
00:57:18,205 --> 00:57:20,608
at the time, 'cause
I was like, you know,

846
00:57:20,675 --> 00:57:22,243
"This is not the time
for your Pulitzer.

847
00:57:22,310 --> 00:57:24,545
Like, this is life or death."

848
00:57:24,612 --> 00:57:26,013
And I mean, in hindsight,
I guess it's,

849
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:27,615
it's good that
it was documented.

850
00:57:27,682 --> 00:57:30,651
But in the moment,
we are possibly, you know,

851
00:57:30,718 --> 00:57:32,720
fighting for our lives.

852
00:57:32,787 --> 00:57:35,089
We don't know what's
on the other side of that door.

853
00:57:47,234 --> 00:57:50,671
I vividly remember
hearing someone say,

854
00:57:50,738 --> 00:57:53,074
"They're hiding from us,"
and like kind of laughing.

855
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:55,276
It felt as if they were like
taunting us, like, you know,

856
00:57:55,343 --> 00:57:56,911
"Hello, anybody in here?"

857
00:57:56,978 --> 00:57:58,579
And they were just banging,
banging, banging on the door.

858
00:57:58,646 --> 00:58:01,916
And every time they
would bang on the door...

859
00:58:17,365 --> 00:58:22,837
Um, you think you're over it,
and then you're not.

860
00:58:22,903 --> 00:58:27,408
Um, I just remember every time
they banged on the door,

861
00:58:27,475 --> 00:58:28,776
um, you know,

862
00:58:28,843 --> 00:58:31,879
we would all just run up
and push the door--

863
00:58:31,946 --> 00:58:35,249
I mean, push the--
the table against the door.

864
00:58:35,316 --> 00:58:38,953
Um, and those were
the most terrifying times.

865
00:58:44,091 --> 00:58:46,794
Hey guys, hey hey!

866
00:59:01,776 --> 00:59:05,279
USA! USA! USA!

867
00:59:05,346 --> 00:59:08,816
USA! USA!
USA!

868
00:59:11,052 --> 00:59:12,787
We need people.

869
00:59:21,962 --> 00:59:23,731
At some point, I finally
make it into the tunnel.

870
00:59:26,901 --> 00:59:28,469
Push!

871
00:59:28,537 --> 00:59:30,505
There was no order
to go in there.

872
00:59:30,571 --> 00:59:32,773
I didn't hear about
any level of importance

873
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,375
because I didn't have
my radio at that point.

874
00:59:34,442 --> 00:59:37,512
It was just where the fight was,
and I knew I needed to go to it.

875
00:59:40,981 --> 00:59:43,217
Now, myself, these officers
that I'm with,

876
00:59:43,284 --> 00:59:44,785
we're essentially trapped
in the Capitol

877
00:59:44,852 --> 00:59:47,121
because you have
these thousands of people

878
00:59:47,188 --> 00:59:49,690
that are now aggressively
trying to get in.

879
00:59:53,861 --> 01:00:00,067
It felt like a, for-real
riot, like pushing back.

880
01:00:05,574 --> 01:00:07,174
Felt like it was organized

881
01:00:07,241 --> 01:00:09,176
and people knew
what they were doing.

882
01:00:09,243 --> 01:00:11,912
You just don't go, you know,
there with tactical gear on

883
01:00:11,979 --> 01:00:14,081
and looking like
you're military personnel

884
01:00:14,148 --> 01:00:16,450
without knowing
what you were doing.

885
01:00:16,617 --> 01:00:18,786
Supply lines coming through.

886
01:00:21,288 --> 01:00:23,390
Keep in mind,
we have the vice president

887
01:00:23,457 --> 01:00:26,794
and other members
of Congress in the building.

888
01:00:26,861 --> 01:00:29,396
And if the building
is surrounded

889
01:00:29,463 --> 01:00:34,268
and a person or group
of people access the tunnel,

890
01:00:34,335 --> 01:00:37,438
it puts the leaders of
our democracy in a very,

891
01:00:37,506 --> 01:00:40,174
very, very bad situation.

892
01:00:48,849 --> 01:00:51,819
We were all just pushing
the table against the door

893
01:00:51,886 --> 01:00:53,988
with all our might.

894
01:00:54,054 --> 01:00:56,257
How do we know that
we're not running to the door

895
01:00:56,323 --> 01:00:58,993
and they're not about to,
like, shoot a bullet through.

896
01:00:59,059 --> 01:01:01,695
We had literally no idea.

897
01:01:04,131 --> 01:01:05,766
The news started to spread.

898
01:01:05,833 --> 01:01:08,068
And I just remember
getting message

899
01:01:08,135 --> 01:01:11,472
after message after message
asking, you know, if I was okay.

900
01:01:11,540 --> 01:01:14,942
And I remember saying to
each person, just please pray.

901
01:01:20,681 --> 01:01:21,949
Meantime on the floor,

902
01:01:22,016 --> 01:01:24,385
it was total chaos
and bedlam by then.

903
01:01:25,986 --> 01:01:29,223
There was this
extraordinary pounding,

904
01:01:29,290 --> 01:01:33,027
barreling sound
coming at the center door

905
01:01:33,093 --> 01:01:34,695
of the House of Representatives.

906
01:01:35,963 --> 01:01:37,666
Everybody stay down.

907
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,909
I'll never forget that sound.
It was really haunting.

908
01:01:48,976 --> 01:01:51,546
Just the sound
of basically a mob,

909
01:01:51,613 --> 01:01:54,882
trying to barrel its way in,
smashing up against the door.

910
01:01:54,949 --> 01:01:57,818
And people began
to run towards the door.

911
01:01:58,653 --> 01:02:01,488
Then some Capitol officers
came in with their guns

912
01:02:01,556 --> 01:02:03,190
and told all of us to get back.

913
01:02:03,257 --> 01:02:06,360
And they stood by the door
with their guns drawn.

914
01:02:08,395 --> 01:02:10,965
Everybody was imagining that
somebody was gonna come in

915
01:02:11,031 --> 01:02:14,368
with an AR 15, that there
would be a mass shooting

916
01:02:14,435 --> 01:02:16,370
and that it would
be focused on

917
01:02:16,437 --> 01:02:18,772
the Democratic
side of the aisle

918
01:02:18,839 --> 01:02:20,374
and the Democratic galleries.

919
01:02:20,441 --> 01:02:23,277
So, they were telling us all
to take off our pins.

920
01:02:23,344 --> 01:02:25,279
These are the little pins
that get us into the buildings.

921
01:02:25,346 --> 01:02:26,880
And they're telling us,
take your pins off.

922
01:02:26,947 --> 01:02:28,349
It makes you recognizable.

923
01:02:28,415 --> 01:02:29,950
And then the Democrats
were saying,

924
01:02:30,017 --> 01:02:31,952
get off of the Democratic
side of the aisle.

925
01:02:32,019 --> 01:02:36,991
USA. USA. USA. USA.

926
01:02:38,459 --> 01:02:42,029
USA. USA.

927
01:02:44,832 --> 01:02:48,469
Meantime, we were all being
shepherded towards the front.

928
01:02:50,304 --> 01:02:53,675
And we got up to the Speaker's
lobby and we went to the right.

929
01:02:53,742 --> 01:02:57,612
To the left is where there
were a handful of officers.

930
01:02:57,679 --> 01:03:01,015
And then the mob was on the
other side of the doors there.

931
01:03:02,216 --> 01:03:04,018
Let me in!

932
01:03:09,890 --> 01:03:12,960
That's, um...

933
01:03:13,027 --> 01:03:15,462
that's where one of
the protesters got killed.

934
01:03:15,530 --> 01:03:17,197
Break that down!

935
01:03:17,264 --> 01:03:18,633
Break it down. Break that!

936
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:20,267
Let's go.

937
01:03:39,853 --> 01:03:41,589
That sound like
a fucking gun shot.

938
01:03:42,557 --> 01:03:43,758
Oh, shit.

939
01:03:43,824 --> 01:03:47,562
Oh, my God,
a woman has been shot.

940
01:03:59,574 --> 01:04:01,141
Where's she hit?

941
01:04:01,208 --> 01:04:04,078
Back Up. Back up.

942
01:04:04,144 --> 01:04:05,846
Yo medic, where's she hit?

943
01:04:05,913 --> 01:04:07,114
We can't save her.

944
01:04:07,314 --> 01:04:09,016
Get the fuck back.
We can't save her!

945
01:04:09,083 --> 01:04:10,317
You guys gotta calm down.

946
01:04:10,384 --> 01:04:12,186
We got blood on the floor.

947
01:04:12,252 --> 01:04:14,756
There's blood
on the floor of our fucking...

948
01:04:21,862 --> 01:04:23,665
<i>Report of one shot</i>
<i>in the Capitol.</i>

949
01:04:23,732 --> 01:04:25,933
<i>Report of a shooting</i>
<i>in the Capitol,</i>

950
01:04:25,999 --> 01:04:27,501
<i>trying to ascertain</i>
<i>information now.</i>

951
01:04:27,569 --> 01:04:29,604
<i>Capitol command of recon,</i>
<i>report of one shot.</i>

952
01:04:29,671 --> 01:04:31,673
<i>Capitol command of recon,</i>
<i>is this gonna be</i>

953
01:04:31,740 --> 01:04:34,141
<i>an active shooter event,</i>
<i>or is this just one shot?</i>

954
01:04:34,208 --> 01:04:35,510
<i>I need more information.</i>

955
01:04:35,577 --> 01:04:37,211
<i>This will be a</i>
<i>report of one shot.</i>

956
01:04:37,277 --> 01:04:39,547
<i>Unknown about</i>
<i>the victim or the location.</i>

957
01:04:41,048 --> 01:04:42,883
We just didn't know.

958
01:04:42,950 --> 01:04:45,085
We were trying
to get confirmation.

959
01:04:45,152 --> 01:04:46,821
Is anyone shot in the Capitol?

960
01:04:46,887 --> 01:04:50,658
Were those shots fired?
Were they some type
of incendiary device?

961
01:04:50,725 --> 01:04:52,660
We don't know.
Was it just a distraction

962
01:04:52,727 --> 01:04:54,729
to kind of get us
in a different area?

963
01:04:54,796 --> 01:04:56,497
We did not know.

964
01:04:56,564 --> 01:05:00,434
And I think that was probably
the scariest thing, not knowing.

965
01:05:00,501 --> 01:05:03,538
We the people! We the people!

966
01:05:05,607 --> 01:05:06,940
This is...

967
01:05:14,481 --> 01:05:17,251
It makes you seek
answers. So, what do I do?

968
01:05:17,317 --> 01:05:18,820
Of course,
I'm talking to people.

969
01:05:18,887 --> 01:05:21,689
I interview people right
then, right on the steps.

970
01:05:21,756 --> 01:05:23,290
You know, right there.

971
01:05:25,058 --> 01:05:27,829
Yeah... look at 'em.

972
01:05:27,896 --> 01:05:31,231
And you know, I met this woman,
we were probably 10 feet away

973
01:05:31,298 --> 01:05:34,268
from, you know, where people
were trying to get in.

974
01:05:34,334 --> 01:05:37,572
She sounded so fucking
nice and so sweet.

975
01:05:37,639 --> 01:05:39,440
And she was so polite.

976
01:05:39,507 --> 01:05:41,609
- You okay, baby?
- Yeah. I'm good.

977
01:05:41,676 --> 01:05:43,377
- I'm prepared to die.
- Huh?

978
01:05:43,444 --> 01:05:45,613
- Yes, I'm prepared to die.
- Wait a second.

979
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:50,317
For my country, and my children
and my grandchildren, all day.

980
01:05:50,384 --> 01:05:52,554
You're saying you're
prepared to die today?

981
01:05:52,620 --> 01:05:55,723
Yes, I love America.

982
01:05:55,790 --> 01:05:57,625
And I was like, what?

983
01:05:57,692 --> 01:05:59,159
You prepared to die?

984
01:06:01,696 --> 01:06:04,298
I could not fucking believe

985
01:06:04,364 --> 01:06:06,967
what the fuck
I was seeing and hearing.

986
01:06:11,873 --> 01:06:13,875
I felt embarrassed, you know,

987
01:06:13,942 --> 01:06:16,276
for all of us, you know,

988
01:06:16,343 --> 01:06:20,849
for all of America, you know,
to hear what I was hearing,

989
01:06:20,915 --> 01:06:24,752
to see what I was seeing, to
document what I was documenting.

990
01:06:35,730 --> 01:06:40,702
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

991
01:06:45,339 --> 01:06:46,708
We were all scared.

992
01:07:00,755 --> 01:07:03,257
The manpower we had inside
the tunnel that day,

993
01:07:03,323 --> 01:07:05,125
which seemed like
a lot, wasn't enough.

994
01:07:05,192 --> 01:07:09,797
It was about maybe four
or five-ish people could
fit in there wide.

995
01:07:09,864 --> 01:07:13,001
And it was a few dozen
officers in there

996
01:07:13,066 --> 01:07:15,035
trying to hold back
the crowd outside.

997
01:07:30,484 --> 01:07:32,319
You could see officers who were

998
01:07:32,386 --> 01:07:35,289
getting injured at the front,
falling out, coming to the back.

999
01:07:37,391 --> 01:07:40,695
The boiler room in the Capitol
became our decon room.

1000
01:07:42,730 --> 01:07:45,265
There were so many officers that
had their hands on their knees

1001
01:07:45,332 --> 01:07:48,770
because they couldn't see
because they're shut down

1002
01:07:48,836 --> 01:07:50,772
from the chemicals that
were just used against them.

1003
01:07:50,838 --> 01:07:53,741
And as those officers fell back,
we would move forward

1004
01:07:53,808 --> 01:07:55,409
and continue moving forward

1005
01:07:55,475 --> 01:08:01,683
until it was your turn
at the front, essentially.

1006
01:08:03,350 --> 01:08:04,752
It felt like war.

1007
01:08:18,365 --> 01:08:21,501
I'm seeing scenes unfold

1008
01:08:22,369 --> 01:08:24,371
all around me.

1009
01:08:24,438 --> 01:08:26,708
This is our country!

1010
01:08:26,774 --> 01:08:28,910
This is our country!

1011
01:08:28,977 --> 01:08:30,243
Yeah!

1012
01:08:32,446 --> 01:08:34,749
I'm seeing anxiety.

1013
01:08:37,351 --> 01:08:39,219
I'm seeing sadness.

1014
01:08:39,286 --> 01:08:42,122
I'm seeing pain.

1015
01:08:52,734 --> 01:08:54,134
You know...

1016
01:08:55,369 --> 01:08:58,438
twice when
I was there, you know,

1017
01:08:58,506 --> 01:09:01,174
I felt the emotion to cry.

1018
01:09:02,744 --> 01:09:04,646
And quite frankly,
probably I didn't stop myself.

1019
01:09:04,712 --> 01:09:07,447
Some shit distracted me
from that emotion.

1020
01:09:07,515 --> 01:09:09,684
It's like, Oh, shit,
there's a hockey stick.

1021
01:09:09,751 --> 01:09:12,120
Oh, shit, where the fuck did
they get a ladder from?

1022
01:09:12,185 --> 01:09:13,688
Oh, shit,
what is this tubing?

1023
01:09:13,755 --> 01:09:15,422
Where the hell
did that come from?

1024
01:09:15,489 --> 01:09:17,558
The guy's head is all red
from pepper spray

1025
01:09:17,625 --> 01:09:18,960
and looks like he can't breathe.

1026
01:09:19,027 --> 01:09:22,030
Oh, shit, I'm getting
soaked up by the gas,

1027
01:09:22,096 --> 01:09:24,197
and I can't fucking breathe,

1028
01:09:24,264 --> 01:09:26,166
and this shit hurts my eyes.

1029
01:09:26,233 --> 01:09:28,636
And why are people
keep returning

1030
01:09:28,703 --> 01:09:32,006
back to the front lines
to do it over and over again?

1031
01:09:32,073 --> 01:09:34,174
What is, what are they thinking?

1032
01:09:43,183 --> 01:09:45,853
I knew that this had to be
the biggest news story

1033
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,354
in the world right now,

1034
01:09:47,421 --> 01:09:49,090
the United States
Capitol being under siege.

1035
01:09:49,157 --> 01:09:54,595
So, someone had to be trying
to get us help somewhere.

1036
01:09:54,662 --> 01:09:56,130
I was thinking, you know,

1037
01:09:56,196 --> 01:09:58,733
I hope I can hold on until
reinforcements gets here.

1038
01:10:00,134 --> 01:10:02,904
Our house! Our house!

1039
01:10:20,054 --> 01:10:22,489
We went down some stairwells,

1040
01:10:22,557 --> 01:10:23,558
and they tried to keep us
together,

1041
01:10:23,624 --> 01:10:26,728
and we were running for safety.

1042
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:34,969
All that shit...!

1043
01:10:35,036 --> 01:10:39,339
At that point, I was most
concerned for Tabitha,

1044
01:10:39,574 --> 01:10:41,609
Hank, and Julie
and wanting to make sure

1045
01:10:41,676 --> 01:10:44,444
that they would get outta
that room, which was
still where the mob was.

1046
01:10:44,512 --> 01:10:48,516
USA! USA! USA!

1047
01:10:48,583 --> 01:10:50,985
And I just kept doing the same
thing over and over again,

1048
01:10:51,052 --> 01:10:53,788
calling the Capitol
police, calling Julie.

1049
01:10:53,855 --> 01:10:56,891
I was obviously profoundly
concerned for them.

1050
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:08,236
I just wanted to make sure
they were in touch

1051
01:11:08,301 --> 01:11:11,973
so they knew who to open
the door for and who not to.

1052
01:11:31,826 --> 01:11:34,361
These people had made it clear
that they wanted

1053
01:11:34,427 --> 01:11:36,264
to kill certain
members of Congress.

1054
01:11:36,329 --> 01:11:38,298
And even if they got one person,

1055
01:11:38,365 --> 01:11:40,367
that would change
the balance of power.

1056
01:11:40,433 --> 01:11:42,970
So, you know,

1057
01:11:43,037 --> 01:11:46,007
I was definitely motivated to--

1058
01:11:48,509 --> 01:11:49,844
to win the fight.

1059
01:11:52,914 --> 01:11:56,316
I found myself at the front
of the line in the tunnel...

1060
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:02,322
and I braced myself
against the doorframe

1061
01:12:02,389 --> 01:12:05,893
so that any backward
force I experienced

1062
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:07,695
wasn't pushed
on the officers behind me,

1063
01:12:07,762 --> 01:12:10,198
but rather against the frame
of the building itself.

1064
01:12:22,810 --> 01:12:25,246
Unfortunately,
it backfired on me.

1065
01:12:25,313 --> 01:12:26,681
My arms were trapped.

1066
01:12:26,747 --> 01:12:29,750
I was essentially
standing up straight,

1067
01:12:29,817 --> 01:12:33,386
unable to defend myself
and at their mercy.

1068
01:12:53,841 --> 01:12:56,476
The man to my front, I remember

1069
01:12:56,544 --> 01:12:59,513
him just screaming at me

1070
01:12:59,580 --> 01:13:03,450
and, like, spit
or some kind of foam

1071
01:13:03,517 --> 01:13:05,152
coming out of his mouth.

1072
01:13:05,219 --> 01:13:09,456
It sounds, like, made up,
but that's what I remember.

1073
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:23,204
He also was able
to wrestle away my baton

1074
01:13:23,271 --> 01:13:25,740
and beat me in the head
with it.

1075
01:13:25,806 --> 01:13:30,845
I could taste blood
coming out of my mouth.

1076
01:13:36,884 --> 01:13:41,656
Heave ho! Heave ho!

1077
01:13:41,722 --> 01:13:48,029
Heave ho! Heave ho!

1078
01:13:48,095 --> 01:13:53,000
I could feel just starting
to lose all of my perception,

1079
01:13:54,368 --> 01:13:57,004
and I was worried
that I would fall out there

1080
01:13:57,071 --> 01:14:00,074
and become a liability to my
colleagues and then, you know,

1081
01:14:00,141 --> 01:14:03,443
eventually be dragged out
and killed.

1082
01:14:03,511 --> 01:14:04,845
Um...

1083
01:14:08,215 --> 01:14:10,851
I remember someone just
chanting, "Fight for Trump.

1084
01:14:10,918 --> 01:14:17,124
Fight for Trump.
Fight for Trump."

1085
01:14:25,266 --> 01:14:28,002
Thankfully, the other officers
behind me heard me

1086
01:14:28,069 --> 01:14:31,172
and were able to create
enough space to get
me out of there.

1087
01:14:33,941 --> 01:14:35,609
Everyone who worked
that day was injured.

1088
01:14:35,676 --> 01:14:37,078
Everyone was attacked.

1089
01:14:41,549 --> 01:14:43,918
Sometimes at great
personal cost.

1090
01:14:49,890 --> 01:14:54,161
The difference between
your typical angry riot

1091
01:14:54,228 --> 01:14:56,964
versus this was, this was...

1092
01:14:57,031 --> 01:14:58,232
it was personal.

1093
01:14:58,299 --> 01:15:00,601
And they were not stopping.

1094
01:15:00,668 --> 01:15:04,504
I wanna go home, and I want
every single officer that's
here to go home.

1095
01:15:04,572 --> 01:15:07,775
And my job right now,

1096
01:15:07,842 --> 01:15:11,312
their job right now is to figure
out a way to make that happen.

1097
01:15:11,379 --> 01:15:14,448
They fought like
hell, for hours.

1098
01:15:14,515 --> 01:15:17,451
That's not training that
police officers normally get.

1099
01:15:17,518 --> 01:15:19,620
Maybe the military,
they're trained for war,

1100
01:15:19,687 --> 01:15:22,790
fighting for hours,
days, months on end.

1101
01:15:22,857 --> 01:15:25,926
The fight that these
officers had in them,

1102
01:15:25,993 --> 01:15:28,896
even when they were injured,
to see them injured

1103
01:15:28,963 --> 01:15:31,432
and then get back
into the fight.

1104
01:15:37,138 --> 01:15:40,141
The fight wasn't over yet, and
the fight needed everybody

1105
01:15:40,207 --> 01:15:43,844
that was able.
And I'm not dead yet.

1106
01:15:43,911 --> 01:15:47,014
Uh, I was still,
uh, still in the fight.

1107
01:15:49,950 --> 01:15:53,821
Freedom, freedom, freedom.

1108
01:15:56,857 --> 01:15:59,994
It was like complete
chaos all around me.

1109
01:16:01,195 --> 01:16:04,465
I'm seeing one of
the darkest days

1110
01:16:04,533 --> 01:16:06,767
in modern history.

1111
01:16:06,834 --> 01:16:09,703
I was scared
for my fucking life,

1112
01:16:09,770 --> 01:16:12,273
but all I can think about is

1113
01:16:12,339 --> 01:16:14,875
making sure that I document

1114
01:16:14,942 --> 01:16:17,845
what's going on
to the best of my abilities.

1115
01:16:39,166 --> 01:16:40,367
Back up.

1116
01:17:43,230 --> 01:17:45,432
When I captured this image

1117
01:17:45,499 --> 01:17:49,270
and saw the police officer
that I now know

1118
01:17:49,336 --> 01:17:51,005
to be Michael Fanone,

1119
01:17:51,405 --> 01:17:53,340
get pulled down

1120
01:17:53,407 --> 01:17:57,978
from where he was
trying to stop the mob

1121
01:17:58,045 --> 01:18:00,948
of MAGA people
from getting inside...

1122
01:18:06,887 --> 01:18:09,123
I'm like reliving it
in my brain right now.

1123
01:18:09,190 --> 01:18:14,995
Like, I have all of the frames
just going in my head.

1124
01:18:17,798 --> 01:18:21,001
The look
on this man's face was,

1125
01:18:21,068 --> 01:18:24,872
"I am about to fucking die."

1126
01:18:25,674 --> 01:18:29,476
You don't see police officers
look like that very often.

1127
01:18:31,445 --> 01:18:36,551
Police officers are
stoic, proud, in control.

1128
01:18:36,618 --> 01:18:40,555
This officer was not in control
of a motherfucking thing.

1129
01:18:40,622 --> 01:18:43,390
If they wanted to kill him,
they would've killed him.

1130
01:18:44,258 --> 01:18:47,962
The man pleaded for his life,
told people he has kids.

1131
01:18:50,364 --> 01:18:53,834
Well, I'm thinking like, holy
shit, this man is about to die.

1132
01:18:53,901 --> 01:18:57,606
And here I am about
to capture this shit.

1133
01:19:05,346 --> 01:19:07,748
It's kind of crazy 'cause
if I had to put, you know,

1134
01:19:07,815 --> 01:19:11,653
a dollar on it, I would
say everyone there is,
"Blue Lives Matter,

1135
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:13,521
Blue Lives Matter."

1136
01:19:14,455 --> 01:19:16,824
They didn't fucking
matter that day.

1137
01:19:16,890 --> 01:19:19,193
I felt for him.

1138
01:19:20,562 --> 01:19:21,829
I have a son.

1139
01:19:21,895 --> 01:19:24,798
I thought about
what it would feel like for him

1140
01:19:24,865 --> 01:19:27,468
if some shit happened to me.

1141
01:19:27,535 --> 01:19:30,739
You know, that's
another human being.

1142
01:19:30,804 --> 01:19:33,207
Are there times that I
don't feel bad for cops?

1143
01:19:33,274 --> 01:19:34,509
Fucking right.

1144
01:19:38,779 --> 01:19:43,183
Derek Chauvin could kiss
my black ass, straight up.

1145
01:19:47,522 --> 01:19:50,725
That could be fucking me.
That coulda been any of us.

1146
01:19:50,791 --> 01:19:55,095
Like, I'm pissed off right now,
just by talking about, you know,

1147
01:19:55,162 --> 01:19:57,931
the, what happened
to George Floyd.

1148
01:19:57,998 --> 01:20:01,969
And what's happened to many,

1149
01:20:02,036 --> 01:20:04,972
many other people that have died

1150
01:20:05,939 --> 01:20:07,776
in the hands of police.

1151
01:20:07,841 --> 01:20:09,143
You know, it's,

1152
01:20:13,515 --> 01:20:18,285
I feel like if you weren't angry
about what happened...

1153
01:20:21,388 --> 01:20:25,794
...to George Floyd
on that fucking day,

1154
01:20:25,859 --> 01:20:28,495
you're not a fucking human.

1155
01:20:29,496 --> 01:20:33,867
You lack everything that
it takes to be a human being.

1156
01:20:33,934 --> 01:20:37,271
If that shit didn't
piss you the fuck off.

1157
01:20:46,815 --> 01:20:50,552
America has been rearing
its ugly fucking head

1158
01:20:50,618 --> 01:20:54,955
for many fucking years
over and over and over again.

1159
01:20:55,022 --> 01:20:57,525
And I'm documenting it all.

1160
01:20:57,592 --> 01:21:00,094
All I can do is
get these photos out

1161
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:03,130
and show the world you know,
what I saw.

1162
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,069
This is real-life America.

1163
01:21:14,341 --> 01:21:18,112
So, yeah, I felt for him,
I felt for...

1164
01:21:19,213 --> 01:21:21,248
...us. I felt for Americans.

1165
01:21:21,315 --> 01:21:23,884
I felt for, you
know, this world,

1166
01:21:23,951 --> 01:21:26,420
this is what it's come to.

1167
01:21:27,988 --> 01:21:31,892
Pull. Pull. Pull.

1168
01:22:00,387 --> 01:22:02,289
I came for fucking war, man.

1169
01:22:03,525 --> 01:22:07,961
We have a national,
international, crisis

1170
01:22:08,028 --> 01:22:12,065
unfolding right here
in the nation's Capitol.

1171
01:22:13,934 --> 01:22:16,203
The gravity
and the weight of that is huge.

1172
01:22:16,270 --> 01:22:19,373
Knowing that the eyes
of the world

1173
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:22,811
are literally watching
our democracy crumble.

1174
01:22:25,379 --> 01:22:26,714
At this hour,

1175
01:22:26,781 --> 01:22:30,484
our democracy is under
unprecedented assault,

1176
01:22:30,552 --> 01:22:34,421
unlike anything we've
seen in modern times.

1177
01:22:34,488 --> 01:22:40,728
An assault in the citadel of
Liberty, the Capitol itself.

1178
01:22:40,795 --> 01:22:43,598
An assault on the people's
representatives

1179
01:22:43,865 --> 01:22:47,301
and the Capitol Hill police
sworn to protect them.

1180
01:22:53,875 --> 01:22:57,377
We had an election that
was stolen from us.

1181
01:22:57,779 --> 01:23:01,683
It was a landslide election,
and everyone knows it.

1182
01:23:01,749 --> 01:23:05,385
But we can't play into
the hands of these people.

1183
01:23:06,353 --> 01:23:08,422
We have to have peace.

1184
01:23:08,489 --> 01:23:09,858
So go home.

1185
01:23:09,924 --> 01:23:11,124
We love you.

1186
01:23:11,191 --> 01:23:12,594
You're very special.

1187
01:23:12,660 --> 01:23:15,028
You've seen what happens,
you see the way others

1188
01:23:15,095 --> 01:23:17,665
are treated that are so bad
and so evil.

1189
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,222
"I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!"

1190
01:24:05,513 --> 01:24:06,714
'Cause...

1191
01:25:54,187 --> 01:25:56,490
How could anyone be proud
of what they were doing?

1192
01:25:56,557 --> 01:25:59,359
Even if you don't agree
with the election,

1193
01:25:59,426 --> 01:26:01,294
how could you be proud of that?

1194
01:26:01,361 --> 01:26:03,397
You've tried to storm
the fucking

1195
01:26:03,463 --> 01:26:05,499
United States Capitol
building--

1196
01:26:05,566 --> 01:26:09,871
not try to storm--
you did, you got in.

1197
01:26:09,937 --> 01:26:11,939
And people died.

1198
01:26:21,049 --> 01:26:23,751
When I began to see the
magnitude of the violence

1199
01:26:23,818 --> 01:26:28,156
that was taking place,
I just grew more and more,

1200
01:26:28,221 --> 01:26:32,192
I don't wanna say hysterical,
but more and more agitated

1201
01:26:32,259 --> 01:26:35,863
about Tabitha and Hank
not being with us.

1202
01:26:38,666 --> 01:26:41,435
I was aware of not wanting to
create surplus fear

1203
01:26:41,501 --> 01:26:44,672
and anxiety on their part,
but I was pretty angry.

1204
01:26:44,739 --> 01:26:48,676
USA. USA. USA.

1205
01:26:48,743 --> 01:26:52,379
USA. USA. USA.

1206
01:26:54,015 --> 01:26:56,551
We just sat there in silence.

1207
01:26:56,617 --> 01:26:59,721
I remember thinking
a lot about my mom.

1208
01:27:03,256 --> 01:27:06,060
You know, I think,

1209
01:27:06,127 --> 01:27:07,795
well, you know,

1210
01:27:07,862 --> 01:27:11,065
my mom lives with me,
she has Alzheimers.

1211
01:27:11,132 --> 01:27:13,768
And I didn't necessarily want to
get in contact with her

1212
01:27:13,835 --> 01:27:16,503
because
I didn't want her to worry,

1213
01:27:16,571 --> 01:27:19,239
I just wanted to be there.

1214
01:27:19,306 --> 01:27:20,942
You know?

1215
01:27:21,008 --> 01:27:23,243
I think that's what
I thought about the most.

1216
01:27:23,310 --> 01:27:27,715
At the end of the day,
I'm kind of all she has.

1217
01:27:27,782 --> 01:27:29,751
So...

1218
01:27:32,019 --> 01:27:35,990
Stop the steal, stop the steal,
stop the steal.

1219
01:27:46,234 --> 01:27:50,905
USA. USA. USA.

1220
01:28:11,726 --> 01:28:13,795
We reached out far
and wide as we could

1221
01:28:13,861 --> 01:28:16,798
to get people here
to support us.

1222
01:28:16,864 --> 01:28:19,133
So, whether the National Guard
showed up, didn't showed up,

1223
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:21,702
whatever the case may be,
there were police officers

1224
01:28:21,769 --> 01:28:25,039
that we were calling on from
all around this area to assist.

1225
01:28:34,148 --> 01:28:35,783
We love you, President Trump.

1226
01:28:40,221 --> 01:28:42,924
Traitors!

1227
01:28:42,990 --> 01:28:44,592
Traitors!

1228
01:28:49,997 --> 01:28:54,101
My God. Oh, my fucking God.

1229
01:29:02,143 --> 01:29:05,880
When I saw that manpower
coming with the munitions

1230
01:29:05,947 --> 01:29:10,051
that we needed to handle the--
this crowd, that was...

1231
01:29:10,117 --> 01:29:12,954
"Okay, we're gonna
get through this."

1232
01:29:16,423 --> 01:29:18,860
Normally, it's
the federal government

1233
01:29:18,926 --> 01:29:21,229
that's coming to the aid
of local law enforcement,

1234
01:29:21,295 --> 01:29:23,731
local jurisdictions.

1235
01:29:23,798 --> 01:29:27,802
That day, local jurisdictions

1236
01:29:27,869 --> 01:29:30,470
came to support
the federal government.

1237
01:29:32,874 --> 01:29:34,609
Some of them are MPD officers,

1238
01:29:34,675 --> 01:29:36,611
some of 'em are
Virginia State Police.

1239
01:29:36,677 --> 01:29:40,380
You start seeing them
push the crowd back.

1240
01:30:00,268 --> 01:30:03,604
They're coming down
the West Front of the Capitol.

1241
01:30:03,671 --> 01:30:05,706
I, I remember having
a sense of like,

1242
01:30:05,773 --> 01:30:07,575
like, we taking it back.

1243
01:30:25,826 --> 01:30:27,762
We kept hearing those knocks.

1244
01:30:27,828 --> 01:30:33,868
One time, it was just such
a violent shaking of the door.

1245
01:30:33,935 --> 01:30:36,737
And that's when they,
they just kicked it in...

1246
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:41,142
and their guns drawn.

1247
01:30:42,243 --> 01:30:44,979
That was by far the
scariest moment of my life

1248
01:30:45,046 --> 01:30:47,214
'cause I did not know
who kicked the door in,

1249
01:30:47,281 --> 01:30:48,950
and I saw all those guns.

1250
01:30:50,351 --> 01:30:54,454
And we just had our hands up,
and we had our hands up
for a long time.

1251
01:30:55,990 --> 01:30:58,926
You know, it's not a good
feeling having to walk around

1252
01:30:58,993 --> 01:31:02,596
the halls of Congress with your
hands up past insurrectionists

1253
01:31:02,663 --> 01:31:05,599
who actually should
have their hands up.

1254
01:31:05,666 --> 01:31:08,468
You know,
that's not a good feeling.

1255
01:31:13,441 --> 01:31:15,509
I will never forget,

1256
01:31:15,576 --> 01:31:18,412
in front of Congressman
Steny Hoyer's office,

1257
01:31:18,478 --> 01:31:22,516
there was a poster of John Lewis
that referenced, you know,

1258
01:31:22,583 --> 01:31:24,085
getting in good trouble,

1259
01:31:24,151 --> 01:31:26,988
and the poster
was ripped to shreds.

1260
01:31:33,694 --> 01:31:36,197
I just remember how
hateful that was,

1261
01:31:36,263 --> 01:31:38,899
to come in and rip up the poster
the way they did

1262
01:31:38,966 --> 01:31:41,268
and to just desecrate
the Capitol the way they did.

1263
01:31:41,335 --> 01:31:43,838
And I remember also walking past

1264
01:31:43,904 --> 01:31:46,707
one of the insurrectionists
that they had handcuffed.

1265
01:31:46,774 --> 01:31:49,844
And I just remember
looking at him, and he laughed.

1266
01:31:49,910 --> 01:31:52,480
You know,
it was... it was funny to him.

1267
01:31:52,546 --> 01:31:54,715
It was unnerving.

1268
01:31:58,486 --> 01:32:01,655
Finally,
Tabitha and Hank and Julie

1269
01:32:01,722 --> 01:32:04,792
were brought over to us
by the officers,

1270
01:32:04,859 --> 01:32:06,861
and it was tearful.

1271
01:32:07,762 --> 01:32:09,897
I was racked with
a lot of guilt.

1272
01:32:12,299 --> 01:32:16,337
I got someone who works with me
on my staff to drive them home.

1273
01:32:16,404 --> 01:32:19,206
Before they left, I gave them
a big hug, and it was again,

1274
01:32:19,273 --> 01:32:24,812
really emotional.
And I... said I was sorry.

1275
01:32:24,879 --> 01:32:28,315
And I said to Tabitha,
"The next time you come back

1276
01:32:28,382 --> 01:32:30,351
to the Capitol,
it's not gonna be like this."

1277
01:32:30,418 --> 01:32:33,754
And then she said,
"I don't want to come
back to the Capitol."

1278
01:32:34,989 --> 01:32:40,027
And it just...
it just rocked me.

1279
01:32:49,570 --> 01:32:51,405
I turned
the ISO up on my camera,

1280
01:32:51,472 --> 01:32:54,842
and I had this dark photo
of this flag waving

1281
01:32:54,909 --> 01:32:58,212
and smoke,
this tear gas is coming down,

1282
01:32:58,279 --> 01:33:02,450
and there's hardly
any more people at the top.

1283
01:33:02,517 --> 01:33:06,521
It just was weirdly over.

1284
01:33:14,995 --> 01:33:16,831
So, earlier there was a lot
of people out here,

1285
01:33:16,897 --> 01:33:18,799
and I guess
it's thinned out a little bit.

1286
01:33:20,768 --> 01:33:23,070
Oh, so somebody got a souvenir.

1287
01:33:23,137 --> 01:33:24,205
Jesus.

1288
01:33:25,507 --> 01:33:28,042
You know,
I walked two blocks,

1289
01:33:28,109 --> 01:33:30,277
called a Uber.

1290
01:33:30,344 --> 01:33:35,550
I just remember looking at
who my driver was gonna be,

1291
01:33:35,616 --> 01:33:39,019
and I was so relieved that
this driver was a Black man...

1292
01:33:40,221 --> 01:33:43,757
because I really honestly
couldn't deal

1293
01:33:43,824 --> 01:33:46,961
with any more
white folks that day.

1294
01:33:47,027 --> 01:33:49,630
I couldn't, I was just over it.

1295
01:33:50,965 --> 01:33:53,000
I needed that at that moment.

1296
01:33:53,067 --> 01:33:58,339
I needed someone that
I could relate to,

1297
01:33:58,405 --> 01:34:01,142
that was on the same
wavelength as me,

1298
01:34:01,208 --> 01:34:04,078
that was the same...
that was a brother.

1299
01:34:04,145 --> 01:34:06,113
Like, I needed to tell that
Black man,

1300
01:34:06,180 --> 01:34:08,949
like,
what I just went through.

1301
01:34:09,016 --> 01:34:10,818
Then I went up to the room

1302
01:34:10,885 --> 01:34:15,022
and, um, almost started crying.

1303
01:34:18,225 --> 01:34:20,895
I almost started,
and I stopped myself

1304
01:34:20,961 --> 01:34:23,197
and I was like, "Alright,
well, I got fucking work to do.

1305
01:34:23,264 --> 01:34:26,033
Let's not go through this
emotional shit right now.

1306
01:34:26,100 --> 01:34:28,969
You gotta fucking just focus

1307
01:34:29,036 --> 01:34:31,906
and get this job done."

1308
01:34:33,407 --> 01:34:35,476
And I'm thinking
about my boy who's over there.

1309
01:34:35,544 --> 01:34:37,978
You know, it's like I'm trying
to fucking make it home

1310
01:34:38,045 --> 01:34:42,449
and get the fuck up
out of here so I can see my son.

1311
01:34:54,428 --> 01:34:57,932
Eventually, the fatigue
of the day caught up with me,

1312
01:34:57,998 --> 01:35:00,535
and when I saw that
I could take a break,

1313
01:35:00,602 --> 01:35:02,770
I went back inside and sat down.

1314
01:35:02,836 --> 01:35:08,409
I found out later on
I had a large contusion
underneath my hair.

1315
01:35:08,475 --> 01:35:10,679
Then I had a headache
for about two weeks.

1316
01:35:10,744 --> 01:35:14,215
So, I likely had a concussion.

1317
01:35:14,281 --> 01:35:16,685
If I had taken
another blow like that,

1318
01:35:16,750 --> 01:35:18,786
especially in the same place,
that very easily could have

1319
01:35:18,852 --> 01:35:22,923
caused serious brain
damage or been fatal.

1320
01:35:27,529 --> 01:35:30,864
Our cops ended up
with broken jaws, broken necks,

1321
01:35:30,931 --> 01:35:32,933
broken arms, legs, fingers.

1322
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:35,002
One officer lost three fingers.

1323
01:35:35,069 --> 01:35:38,573
People had traumatic
brain injury,

1324
01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:42,943
dozens and dozens ending up with
Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

1325
01:35:44,178 --> 01:35:47,582
It was just hard to believe that
this was going on in America.

1326
01:35:47,649 --> 01:35:51,919
And it was going on, you know,
downstairs from where we were,

1327
01:35:51,986 --> 01:35:55,256
and Donald Trump wasn't
doing anything to stop it.

1328
01:35:55,322 --> 01:35:58,859
And the National Guard
was just absent...

1329
01:35:59,860 --> 01:36:02,062
and we were dumbfounded.

1330
01:36:19,648 --> 01:36:22,416
<i>Congressman Raskin</i>
<i>is joining us now.</i>

1331
01:36:22,483 --> 01:36:24,719
<i>Congressman, obviously you</i>
<i>can't share everything with us,</i>

1332
01:36:24,785 --> 01:36:27,855
<i>but what have you learned</i>
<i>about what comes next?</i>

1333
01:36:27,921 --> 01:36:30,659
<i>I don't know, but I'll tell you</i>
<i>this but every single member</i>

1334
01:36:30,725 --> 01:36:35,262
<i>that I've spoken to</i>
<i>is absolutely determined</i>
<i>to have us complete</i>

1335
01:36:35,329 --> 01:36:37,732
<i>the counting of the</i>
<i>Electoral College votes,</i>

1336
01:36:37,798 --> 01:36:41,569
<i>and, uh,</i>
<i>American constitutional</i>
<i>democracy will prevail.</i>

1337
01:37:36,857 --> 01:37:38,859
Nobody ever said
it would be easy.

1338
01:37:40,327 --> 01:37:42,896
But healing begins
with the truth.

1339
01:37:44,298 --> 01:37:47,669
I mean, there was an effort
almost instantly to bury

1340
01:37:47,736 --> 01:37:51,905
and rewrite the history
of what happened on January 6th.

1341
01:37:51,972 --> 01:37:54,942
You don't almost knock over the
government of the United States

1342
01:37:55,008 --> 01:37:56,811
by accident.

1343
01:37:56,877 --> 01:38:01,415
It's not an impulse move.

1344
01:38:01,482 --> 01:38:05,285
This was an organized
attack on the government.

1345
01:38:05,352 --> 01:38:08,590
if you allow for
there to be confusion,

1346
01:38:08,656 --> 01:38:10,558
propaganda
and disinformation about it.

1347
01:38:10,625 --> 01:38:15,062
Then that's very dangerous
because it conditions

1348
01:38:15,129 --> 01:38:16,865
the society to accept it

1349
01:38:16,930 --> 01:38:20,535
and licenses political violence
in the future.

1350
01:38:24,171 --> 01:38:25,774
It was a traumatic experience,

1351
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:30,310
probably the most traumatic
event that I've dealt with.

1352
01:38:30,377 --> 01:38:37,852
But, for me, it's more of
losing trust in people.

1353
01:38:37,918 --> 01:38:40,387
You're talking about thousands
and thousands of people

1354
01:38:40,454 --> 01:38:46,293
that were willing to hurt us
to get what they want...

1355
01:38:47,327 --> 01:38:49,129
but then the next day,
probably go back to

1356
01:38:49,196 --> 01:38:51,098
respecting law enforcement,
right?

1357
01:38:51,165 --> 01:38:52,734
How does that work?
How does that make sense?

1358
01:38:52,801 --> 01:38:56,403
How am I supposed
to respect that and trust you?

1359
01:38:58,773 --> 01:39:03,277
It was embarrassing,
to see what I was seeing,

1360
01:39:03,343 --> 01:39:07,448
you know,
to be an American.

1361
01:39:09,717 --> 01:39:12,186
The type of things

1362
01:39:12,252 --> 01:39:16,156
that happened
that day, you know,

1363
01:39:16,223 --> 01:39:19,594
theoretically
are not supposed to happen

1364
01:39:20,862 --> 01:39:22,864
in this country.

1365
01:39:22,931 --> 01:39:28,368
We're America, the greatest
country in the world.

1366
01:39:34,876 --> 01:39:40,314
My photos are showing you
things that you already know.

1367
01:39:44,084 --> 01:39:46,286
It's not really
exposing anything,

1368
01:39:46,353 --> 01:39:49,423
it's just showing
you what's real.

1369
01:39:50,290 --> 01:39:54,562
Hopefully, you know, the photos
help make life better for...

1370
01:39:54,629 --> 01:39:58,600
Like, hopefully, my son doesn't
have to have a movement.

1371
01:39:58,666 --> 01:40:02,269
Be a part of a movement
like what I've been a part of,

1372
01:40:02,336 --> 01:40:05,472
or what my parents have been
a part of in the '60s.

1373
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:09,777
But chances are,
he will be

1374
01:40:09,844 --> 01:40:12,514
because that's the way
the world works, you know.

1375
01:40:13,948 --> 01:40:16,149
The world is not perfect

1376
01:40:16,216 --> 01:40:19,353
and it can be
fucked up sometimes.

1377
01:40:23,791 --> 01:40:25,560
A violent insurrection
to overturn the election

1378
01:40:25,627 --> 01:40:28,028
is not an abstract thing,
as we've heard.

1379
01:40:28,095 --> 01:40:29,697
Hundreds of people
were bloodied,

1380
01:40:29,764 --> 01:40:32,032
injured, and wounded
in the process,

1381
01:40:32,099 --> 01:40:36,036
including more than
150 police officers,

1382
01:40:36,103 --> 01:40:39,106
some of them
sitting in this room today.

1383
01:40:39,172 --> 01:40:41,341
It's a dark day for America.

1384
01:40:41,408 --> 01:40:45,713
The Confederate flag was inside
the United States Capitol,

1385
01:40:45,780 --> 01:40:48,616
the flag of traitors,
and I say that as someone

1386
01:40:48,683 --> 01:40:51,753
born below the Mason-Dixon line,
who loves the South.

1387
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:56,691
White supremacists rummaging

1388
01:40:56,758 --> 01:41:00,962
through the belongings
of our elected leaders.

1389
01:41:04,799 --> 01:41:07,735
It's hard to imagine how that
could be victory, right?

1390
01:41:11,539 --> 01:41:14,909
But power was transferred
that day peacefully.

1391
01:41:14,976 --> 01:41:18,880
The terrorists, very fortunate
that they got to go home,

1392
01:41:18,947 --> 01:41:21,583
but more of them are getting
arrested every day.

1393
01:41:24,018 --> 01:41:25,920
And, um,
victory doesn't always look like

1394
01:41:25,987 --> 01:41:29,857
what we want it to look like,
but we did win.

1395
01:41:29,924 --> 01:41:31,258
We won that day.

1396
01:41:35,930 --> 01:41:38,231
When you go
through something like
that, you don't really think

1397
01:41:38,298 --> 01:41:40,400
about the impact it had on you

1398
01:41:40,467 --> 01:41:43,403
until you decide
to talk about it again,

1399
01:41:43,470 --> 01:41:46,239
and then a lot of that
fear and terror

1400
01:41:46,306 --> 01:41:49,376
and pain comes back.

1401
01:41:49,443 --> 01:41:51,445
But, you know,
I don't know that there's

1402
01:41:51,512 --> 01:41:54,247
a whole lot of use
in being angry.

1403
01:41:54,314 --> 01:41:56,751
I think that anger
should be channeled

1404
01:41:56,818 --> 01:41:59,821
into the work that
we should continue to do.

1405
01:41:59,887 --> 01:42:01,623
That's why I stayed that night.

1406
01:42:03,591 --> 01:42:07,095
Being there, you know,
in the face of terrorism

1407
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:08,997
and showing them that,
you know,

1408
01:42:09,063 --> 01:42:13,266
despite your attack on
democracy, democracy prevailed.

1409
01:42:14,569 --> 01:42:16,537
This is not the end of the book.

1410
01:42:16,604 --> 01:42:19,073
It's not the last
chapter of the book.

1411
01:42:19,139 --> 01:42:23,410
So, while I have an appreciation
for being

1412
01:42:23,477 --> 01:42:27,715
part of this historically
significant event...

1413
01:42:28,883 --> 01:42:32,419
I take comfort in knowing
that it's not the last chapter.

1414
01:42:33,955 --> 01:42:36,691
I think about what's ahead.

1415
01:42:36,758 --> 01:42:39,994
How strong we are.

1416
01:42:40,061 --> 01:42:43,898
After enduring all of these
things yet here I stand,

1417
01:42:43,965 --> 01:42:45,465
our country.

1418
01:42:45,533 --> 01:42:49,169
After going through all
the things that we go through,

1419
01:42:49,236 --> 01:42:51,839
democracy still moves forward.

1420
01:42:51,906 --> 01:42:55,409
And our last chapter is
still yet to be written.

1421
01:42:58,178 --> 01:43:00,280
But this is not the
problem of one party,

1422
01:43:00,347 --> 01:43:03,518
it is the problem of
the whole country now.

1423
01:43:03,584 --> 01:43:05,820
American democracy,
Mr. Chairman,

1424
01:43:05,887 --> 01:43:07,822
is a precious inheritance,

1425
01:43:07,889 --> 01:43:10,658
something rare
in the history of the world.

1426
01:43:10,725 --> 01:43:12,660
So, justice is part
of what we're doing,

1427
01:43:12,727 --> 01:43:14,962
but I would say
paramount is the truth.

1428
01:43:15,029 --> 01:43:16,864
We want to set out

1429
01:43:16,931 --> 01:43:20,267
a complete,
detailed historical record

1430
01:43:20,333 --> 01:43:22,302
of what happened and why.

1431
01:43:22,369 --> 01:43:24,371
And we've come a long way,

1432
01:43:24,438 --> 01:43:27,575
but obviously the progress

1433
01:43:27,642 --> 01:43:31,211
can be lost also
in the wink of an eye.

1434
01:43:33,480 --> 01:43:37,085
In a world of insurgent
authoritarianism,

1435
01:43:37,151 --> 01:43:41,221
of racism and antisemitism,
let's all hang tough for

1436
01:43:41,288 --> 01:43:42,824
American democracy.

1437
01:43:42,890 --> 01:43:45,526
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I yield back.

1438
01:43:49,597 --> 01:43:53,300
So, eternal vigilance,
that's the price of our liberty.

1439
01:43:53,366 --> 01:43:55,268
That's the price
of our democracy.

1440
01:43:55,335 --> 01:43:56,704
We've all got
to stay on the case.

1441
01:43:56,771 --> 01:43:59,306
It's something we
take care of together.