'This is how I'm going to die': Officers tell Jan. 6 stories
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July 28, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — "This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance."
Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell told House investigators Tuesday he could feel himself losing oxygen as he was crushed by rioters – supporters of then-President Donald Trump – as he was defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who rushed to the scene, told the new House committee investigating the attack that he was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country." Doctors later told him he'd had a heart attack.
Daniel Hodges, also a...
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