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For Officers Who Survived Attack On  Capitol, Wounds Infect Testimony

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 7/28/21

One of the Capitol Police Officers who testified before Congress's Select Committee on the January 6 Attack July 27 said that what he called "an attack on our democracy by violent domestic extremists" left him feeling more fear than he experienced in 18 months as a soldier in a war zone in Iraq.

A colleague became emotional when describing the barrage of racial epithets he heard from the overwhelmingly white supporters of Donald Trump after he asserted that they were wrong that the election had been stolen, telling the committee, "No one had ever, ever called me a nigger while wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police Officer."

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