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sabra

(30,404 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:11 PM Jan 2021

DC Police Chief: "I've had officers that have done two tours in Iraq say that this was scarier..."

https://www.11alive.com/article/features/producers-picks/dc-police-officer-capitol-riot-american-flag-capitol-police-response/65-713578e6-cd96-45f2-870c-1b30253ef692?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

New video shows Capitol rioters dragging a DC police officer and beating him with an American flag



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D.C.'s Acting Police Chief Robert Contee said the images left him sick to his stomach. The officer was terrified they'd kill him, Contee said. The video is chilling to watch, the officer ripped by insurrectionists from a line inside a door, his fellow officers unable to help him.

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"I've had officers that have done two tours in Iraq say that this was scarier than their time in combat," Contee said.

Another video shows the terrified officer finally pulled from the crowd, injured and barely able to hold up his head.

The chief said the rioters injured a total of 56 D.C. police officers. Social media detectives have grabbed images from the videos and are doing their best to identify the rioters.
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DC Police Chief: "I've had officers that have done two tours in Iraq say that this was scarier..." (Original Post) sabra Jan 2021 OP
The party of law and order luv2fly Jan 2021 #1
The Republicans that stood up and voted against Bluethroughu Jan 2021 #4
No doubt scarier! In war, one can take lethal action when threatened! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #2
These people are murdering insurrectionist unleashed Bluethroughu Jan 2021 #3

Bluethroughu

(5,173 posts)
4. The Republicans that stood up and voted against
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:20 PM
Jan 2021

The States' electoral votes, walked right over that picture that night.

They do not care.

Whatever their end game of golden crowns or whatever, will be worth less than the free ones given out at BK in the 80's.

Bluethroughu

(5,173 posts)
3. These people are murdering insurrectionist unleashed
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:15 PM
Jan 2021

By the Republican enablers and The President!

Traitors, nothing less, every single one of them!

Prison is the only way we make it out of this death spiral alive.

Accountability for EVERYONE THERE.

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