DC Officer Daniel Hodges testifies against Capitol rioter who crushed him with shield
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON A Washington, D.C., police officer who was crushed by a pro-Trump mob in a tunnel leading to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, testified Tuesday against one of the rioters charged with assaulting him.
Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who has spoken publicly about being attacked at the Capitol, including before the Jan. 6 committee, appeared in court Tuesday for the trial of three Capitol defendants: Patrick McCaughey III, Tristan Stevens and David Mehaffie. The case is before U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, the only federal judge in Washington who has acquitted a Jan. 6 defendant.
McCaughey, the Justice Department alleged, "threw his body weight" against Hodges and pressed a stolen police shield against him. Citing a video that went viral after the Jan. 6 attack, federal prosecutors wrote in a trial brief that Hodges was "screaming out in pain, crushed between the shield held by defendant McCaughey and the door frame of the Capitol."
Hodges, who has said in media appearances that Donald Trump has a "cultlike" control over his supporters, told the court Tuesday that the attack "hurt a great deal" and that McCaughey's actions contributed to his injuries that day.
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Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)RESPECT
paleotn
(17,989 posts)PSPS
(13,620 posts)In other words, don't count on it.
Marthe48
(17,045 posts)they support the army of goons they created, the thugs who buy their own weapons, are responsible for their own health care and seemingly don't care they are cannon fodder for traitors.
God bless Officer Hodges and the other valiant law enforcement personnel who defended the Capitol against fascists.
JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)In which case this officer is the last guy they want to see in their trial. If it goes the way it should, the deal is off and if convicted, they will face a much more serious sentence for making the state take it to a trial.
Somebody get me a tiny violin.