U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards described to lawmakers Thursday night what she could only describe as the 'war scene' that she and other officers faced when rioters began viciously attacking them on Jan. 6, 2021.
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards described to lawmakers Thursday night what she could only describe as the "war scene" that she and other officers faced when rioters began viciously attacking them on Jan. 6, 2021."There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. I was slipping in people's blood."What we know about Trump's actions as Jan.
Over her shoulder as Edwards testified sat fellow Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell and Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, all of whom testified about the violence they endured at a hearing of the panel last summer. There were moments in her testimony that brought Dunn, a 13-year veteran of the force, to tears.
Edwards said she has worked on hundreds of civil disturbances but it quickly became apparent that this one was different. She asked her supervisor for backup. But the moment Edwards recalled most vividly was the moment when she saw fellow officer Brian Sicknick turn "ghostly pale."
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