Two eyewitnesses to the January 6 attack gave detailed testimony about what they saw and experienced during the committee’s prime time hearing riot on Thursday.
Leading the news, “I slipped in people’s blood,” said Carolina Edwards, a Capitol police officer who is believed to be the first officer to be wounded on Jan. 6.
- “It was a massacre. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw.”
- The committee also released a video on January 6 showing Edwards being pushed by rebels to the ground, banging his head on the steps of the Capitol, where she was knocked unconscious.
- Edwards suffered a concussion from the attack and had seizures for months after the uprising, writes the New York Times.
British documentary filmmaker Nick Custed, who followed the right-wing extremist group Proud Boys, also described what he saw on January 6, saying the crowd had turned “from protesters to rebels to rebels.”
- “I was surprised by the size of the group, the anger and the swearing,” he said.
- Quested also described being “confused” that “several hundred Proud Boys are marching on the Capitol” before Trump’s speech.
- “I was somewhat confused as to why we were moving away from the president’s speech because I felt we were there to cover,” Quested said.
Background: The testimony of two eyewitnesses set the committee’s argument that the uprising was “the result of a coordinated, multi-stage effort to overturn the 2020 election results and halt the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden”, Alaina said. Trien from Axios.
- The January 6 committee chairs, Chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss.) And Vice President Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Linked Trump to the events of that brutal day.
- “President Trump convened the crowd, gathered the crowd and ignited the flames of this attack,” Cheney said.
- “January 6 was the culmination of a coup attempt,” Thompson said.
What’s next: The Watergate-style prime time hearing on Thursday was the first in a series of public hearings scheduled for the rest of the month.
- The next meeting of the commission is scheduled for June 13 at 10 o’clock
Go deeper … On January 6, the committee aired a video of Bill Bar’s testimony behind closed doors
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