Please remember while Officer Daniel Hodges testifies

[bottomofthehill]

The day after almost being rushed to death, after being beaten, sprayed with chemicals, crushed by a mob he said

“ it was his pleasure to "crush a white nationalist insurrection."

"If it wasn't my job I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection," Daniel Hodges told NBC. "I'm glad I was in a position to be able to help. We'll do it as many times as it takes."

Hodges said he was pinned to the doorway while trying to push back the mob.

"They ripped my mask off. Stole my equipment. Beat me up. Sprayed me with everything," he said.

[bottomofthehill]

1. He is a hero, and would do it again.

Thank you Officer Hodges.

[nuxvomica]

2. He's a real hero

I loved when he said that.

[Javaman]

3. to me this is the very definition of courageous. nt

[Leghorn21]

4. Thanks, bottom, he sure did:

[PortTack]

5. Thank you officer Hodges for saving us!

[viva la]

6. Good for him for calling it what it was

White nationalist insurrection.

I hope someone makes a gif of that and plays it over and over.

[llashram]

7. this

an honoured American. Eternal dishonour to the racist terrorists who tried and failed, precisely because the police forces of democracy stood up to them and their Chump agitated coup attempt.

[Mersky]

8. Notes from watching his testimony earlier today

Ofc Hodges describing the flags the terrorists wielded

How some of them fashioned themselves as Christians based on the flags, or police supporters carrying thin blue lines to attack him.

Oh man, he describes an attacker wanting the cops and everyone to pause for him because he had asthma. As if the attack was to be at his convenience - I could see from Ofc Hodges expression how is one of many moments that just burns for him.

Then he described his head injury requiring him to call for help, that he feared he wouldn’t be able to stay standing much longer. That he’d turn into a liability for the rest of the force or be dragged out into the crowd and lynched. How he took up a different post until reinforcements arrived, clapping when they finally appeared.

Is all forceful testimony of trauma and violence caused by the terrorists that day.

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Typically, I live comment on DU for important hearing. I find myself mostly listening, and watching as an American feeling betrayed and just needing the truth. Was gonna post this earlier, but got caught up emotionally.

[hibbing]

17. Thanks for this, can't watch or listen right now n/t

[Mersky]

20. Yw. Have been effected by each and every one of the witnesses today

Wisps of what I saw and heard:

I started to become overwhelmed listening between them. The abuse from the crowd kept clanging through. Ofc Dunn said he’d never been called the n-word while wearing the Capitol uniform. My heart about stopped right there. Then, later, he commented on how difficult it was going back Jan 7, subsequent days, and how taking down the barrier around the Capitol was trying as well.

Sober words from Ofc Gonell comparing the difference between serving in a war zone vs. at the Capitol — how you can be mentally prepared for serving within battlements, but fighting off citizens in your own country is something else. He said at one point that, he (tRump) never sacrificed anything, but our institutions. That he sacrificed our institutions for his ego.

Found I couldn’t relate their testimony well enough, fast enough. Watch lengthy segments later today if you can.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. He's a hero

[keithbvadu2]

10. Trump calls it::: "a loving crowd" ... "hugging and kissing"

Trump calls it::: "a loving crowd" ... "hugging and kissing"

Right Wing police slogans::::::

Blue Lives Matter
Police lives matter
Back the Blue

Empty slogans

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

11. A slogan that Trump's terrorists/tourists believe in::: 'Kill him with his own gun'

A slogan that Trump's terrorists/tourists believe in:::

'Kill him with his own gun'

[bottomofthehill]

12. Fuck Tucker too, Fucker Carlson...garbage

He is a piece of shit. Fucking TV Tough guy. No balls to actually show up and fight the fight, but will sit in his comfy arm chair making millions off of this…..


He is a human pile of shit.

[bullwinkle428]

23. In fairness - is Trump really the person to distinguish the difference

between "hugging & kissing", and assault?

The microphone is yours, E. Jean Carroll!

[electric_blue68]

13. "Why?" " for the future of our country..." Officer Hodges

[bottomofthehill]

14. Hero,

He is a hero.

[electric_blue68]

16. Yes....

[electric_blue68]

15. "embolded by people in power" Offc Fanone

[wryter2000]

34. Fanone

Has no more Fs to give.

[StClone]

19. He sounds like a Democrat

[Hekate]

28. He sounds like an American

[StClone]

39. That he is, that is is thank goodness!

[Dawson Leery]

21. He certainly would have taken out many Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge.

[wnylib]

22. I especially liked the part of his testimony

when he was asked why he calls them terrorists and he responded by reading the legal code description of terrorism, which fit the behavior of the Jan 6 mob to a T.

[sheshe2]

25. As he said, "I came prepared" as he started reading.

[wnylib]

27. Yes he did. And he gave us a clear

understanding of why it applies and why we, too, should use it.

[bottomofthehill]

30. Loved that.

He knows what he is talking about and actually researched it.

[calimary]

40. He sure did.

OMG what he and the others endured that day…

[mrsadm]

32. A perfect response, I loved it!

[crickets]

44. I love Hodges for that.

It was the only time he was briefly but visibly angry. "I came prepared" is right, and thanks to him for having the federal code re domestic terrorism read into the record. All of the were stellar, really - Jan 6 and today.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. Bestial right-wing monsters. Their cult of rage has overtaken them.

They believe WE do what they actually do, because their propaganda tells them so.

They believe US to be rampaging across the country, and that belief instinctively tells them to meet this imagined force with equal force of their own.

And empowered this way, they feel vindicated by attacking “The Left”. Feeling rageful and vindicated is a strong potion.

[ck4829]

29. Our country needs more Daniel Hodges and less Michael Flynns and Derek Chauvins

[bottomofthehill]

36. Absolutely, one who honors the oath he takes.

[Cha]

31. KR!

[wryter2000]

33. I remember that

The mob almost tore him in half with those doors.

[Uncle Joe]

35. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread bottomofthehill.

[bottomofthehill]

37. Thanks Uncle Joe

Officer Hodges is a hero.

[Uncle Joe]

38. Yes he is.

[calimary]

41. Earned it the hard way.

[Blue Owl]

42. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

43. A hero

[The Wizard]

45. There is an international fascit movement

seizing power around the globe. Are FEMA reeducation camps necessary to counter the cult's blind allegiance to a dangerous movement.
"These are the times that try men's souls".
(Thomas Paine)

[NJCher]

46. If there is

I am a teacher and I will be in charge of curriculum.

[Progressive Jones]

47. K & R X 1000

[Deuxcents]

48. Congress needs to fund these departments

All the praises are needed so let’s show our appreciation n fund them.. Capital and DC policemen is a good start.