For Mike the Cop, watching from New York Jan. 6 as the U.S. Capitol Building was invaded by supporters of President Trump, it seemed to unfold in a kind of parallel universe from what he'd experienced the previous seven months in dealing with demonstrations along Manhattan streets that sometimes veered astray.
One reason was that it had never gotten that bad here: even when cops were significantly outnumbered in the early days of protests following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the knee of a Minneapolis cop, they never found themselves in the position of having to protect elected officials' lives.
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