"We got one! We got one! Kill him with his own gun!"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

“We got one! We got one! Kill him with his own gun!”

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‘We got to hold this door’

How battered D.C. police made a stand against the Capitol mob

By Peter Hermann
JANUARY 14, 2021

Blinded by smoke and choking on gas and bear spray, stripped of his radio and badge, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone and his battered colleagues fought to push back rioters trying to force their way into an entrance to the U.S. Capitol. ... The officers had been at it for hours, unaware that others in the mob had already breached the building through different entrances. For them, the West Terrace doors — which open into a tunnel-like hallway allowing access to an area under the Rotunda — represented the last stand before the Capitol fell.

“Dig in!” Fanone yelled, his voice cracking, as he and others were being struck with their own clubs and shields, ripped from their hands by rioters. “We got to get these doors shut.” ...An officer since 9/11, the 40-year-old Fanone, who has four daughters, had been working a crime-suppression detail in another part of the District on Jan. 6. He and his partner sped to the Capitol when dispatchers broadcast an urgent citywide emergency call. ... “They were overthrowing the Capitol, the seat of democracy, and I f---ing went,” Fanone said.

The officers at the West Terrace eventually pushed people away from the doors. It was only then that Fanone saw the immense, volatile crowd stretched out in front of him and realized what police were up against.

“We weren’t battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,” he said in the first public account from D.C. police officers who fought to protect the Capitol during last week’s siege. “We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.”

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Aaron Davis, Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report

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[still_one]

1. These are the types of people trump attracts

[doc03]

2. They drive around with their Trump flags and US flags with blue stripes

proclaiming they support the men in blue. What is scary I think most of the law enforcement support them.

[Tommymac]

10. Not most. But the Bad Apples are in a lot of leadership positions.

The rot must be excised.

[The Blue Flower]

3. A chilling article

These moronic monsters have shown the world what they are, and now the law can put them away.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

4. "thank you but fuck you for being here"

He was just interviewed on cnn talking about rioters who eventually helped him.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. This officer was in the middle of the Capitol riots. Watch until the end.

CivMilAir ✈ Retweeted

This officer was in the middle of the Capitol riots.

Watch until the end.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. "We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times

“We’re not the traitors. We’re the ones who saved Congress that day, and we’ll do it as many times as necessary.”

Meet three D.C. Police officers who fought for the U.S. Capitol:

https://dcist.com/story/21/01/15/were-the-ones-who-saved-congress-meet-three-d-c-police-officers-who-fought-for-the-u-s-capitol/

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[llashram]

11. not many articles, if any

on these African-Americans officers who held their ground and what hateful white rage and racism they had to contend with while protecting their charges...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob

yippee on the officers above...but the elephant that has always been in the room turned into a white racist bull in the china shop...and these officers also helped save the lives of Congress-people and innocent staffers, who had their children with them while they worked.

No large spreads like your articles yet. Even MSM is getting back on the institutional side of American racial politics AND WHO PLAY UP AS HEROS.

[Wicked Blue]

7. This Post story deserves a Pulitzer

The way Peter Hermann tells it, you feel like you're right there. He has always been a very good journalist, this time he's outdone himself.

[FakeNoose]

8. It's terrifying proof that Blue Lives Matter not at all

... to the Capitol insurrectionists/terrorists.

The terrorists were all trespassing, many were also committing much more serious crimes.
Lock them all up!

[dalton99a]

9. They came prepared