‘They’re using weapons around the USA.’ Body film and audio cops fighting MAGA mob revealed at Donald Trump’s impeachment lawsuit
- Dramatic images and audio from police officer scenes show the MAGA movement raining down and hitting law enforcement
- ‘The crowd is using weapons all around us,’ said an officer in an audio clip. They have a bear shower in the crowd. Bear sprayer in the crowd ‘
- Impeachment Manager, Rep. Eric Swalwell, showing fragments of armed masses with ‘crutch, hockey stick, bull and Trump flag’ attacking officials
Dramatic images and audio from police officers ’views show the MAGA movement spraying and slashing law enforcement as they try to gain access to the Capitol Building during the January 6 attack.
Impeachment Manager, Rep. Eric Swalwell, U.S. senators walked through a conference of officials, while Democrats tried to persuade the U.S. Senate to condemn President Donald Trump for inciting the uprising.
‘The crowd is using weapons all around us,’ said an officer in an audio clip. They have a bear shower in the crowd. Spray the crowd. ‘
Democratic House impeachment managers played a new film featuring a body clip that showed ‘the mob attacking officers with a crutch, a hockey stick, a bullfight and a Trump flag,’ according to Rep. Eric swalwell
Swalwell spoke of the ‘hand-to-hand fighting’ that prompted the officers to intervene, speaking of their ‘incredible heroism’.
At the top of his presentation he said, ‘I want to warn you that the following audio and video is graphic and difficult. ‘
In a second audio clip played by Swalwell seniors heard the voice of a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer shouting, ‘We’re on our side and lost the line,’ explaining the code that an officer needed help.
Videos then showed officers snatched in the face.
‘In this new security video, you can see the mob attacking officers with a crutch, a hockey stick, a bullfight and a Trump flag,’ said Swalwell, before rolling pictures of the same moments from two perspectives, taking in from an officer camera.
The Democrat noted that this film was shot two hours after the first Capitol intrusion.
‘The attack on the police was always in the afternoon,’ Swalwell said.
DC Police followed Mike Fanone, followed by Swalwell, as one of three police officers who grabbed the mob and dragged it down the stairs of the Capitol Building. Fanone was crushed, which provoked a heart attack, Swalwell revealed.
‘It was a medieval battle scene, it was some of the most brutal fighting I’ve ever experienced,’ Fanone said in a video, recalling the experience.
Swalwell paid tribute to the three officers who died, Brian Sicknick, who escaped his injuries and officers Howard Liebengood and Jeffery Smith, who gave their lives. He noted that another 140 police officers were injured.
The manager of the impeachment tasted the protesters for crushing a custody officer and crushing Daniel Hodges between two doors.
‘I’m sorry I have to show you the next video,’ Swalwell said at the end of his presentation.
He rolled up the previously viral images of Officer Hodges smashed in the door of the Capitol.
It was clear that a number of U.S. senators in the audience were moved by the films.
Senate Visiting Leader Chuck Schumer summoned the ‘gut wrenching’ clips at Wednesday dinner. ”
‘I don’t think many of us feel like eating dinner,’ said the New York Democrat.
Top Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that officers should have used more force.
‘Well, I can’t believe we could lose the Capitol like that. I went crazy. I mean these police officers had every right to use a lethal force, they should have been deployed, ‘Graham told Capitol Hill pool. The people in charge of the Capitol left the country. ‘