'This Is How I'm Going To Die': Police Sergeant Recalls The Terror Of Jan. 6

'This Is How I'm Going To Die': Police Sergeant Recalls The Terror Of Jan. 6 Enlarge this image toggle caption Jim Bourg/Pool/Getty Images Jim Bourg/Pool/Getty Images In gripping emotional testimony Tuesday, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. "My fellow officers and I were punched, pushed, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye-damaging lasers by a violent mob who apparently saw us law enforcement officers, dedicated to ironically protecting them as U.S. citizens, as an impediment in their attempted insurrection," Gonell said. Sponsor Message In his opening statement, Gonell said that he could hear officers "screaming in agony" as the mob crushed them and that he heard specific threats on the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the event to certify the presidential election in Biden's favor. "Even though there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including hours and hours of video and photographic coverage, there is a continuous and shocking attempt to ignore or try to destroy the truth of what truly happened that day, and to whitewash the facts into something other than what they unmistakably reveal: an attack on our democracy by violent domestic extremists, and a stain on our history and our moral standing here at home and abroad," Gonell said.