NEW: MPD Officer Daniel Hodges tells DavidMuir those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot must be held responsible so it won't occur again. Hodges: 'I guarantee you, people are imagining this happening again.' Muir: Right now? Hodges: Right now.
Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges has become a symbol of the violence officers endured while protecting lawmakers and the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
"I remember just the intensity of his guttural screams and I swear I remember him foaming at the mouth and just grabbing at my mask and ... ripping it off my head, straining my neck, ripping away my baton, beating me in the head with it," Hodges told"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir."It crossed my mind at the time that, you know, this might be it."
"The absolute zealotry of these people was unreal. They -- they were completely convinced that -- without any evidence whatsoever ever, that the election was stolen and that they were doing the right thing," Hodges told Muir. "It's frustrating that we're a year on and no one higher up at all has been charged with anything save, you know, contempt for not responding to a subpoena," Hodges told Muir."I'm very sensitive to telling other professionals how to do their job. You know, I'm not a fed, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a prosecutor ... I just have to hope that they're doing everything they can to see that the-- the people in power get what they deserve.
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