Capitol officer recounts 'war scene' of January 6, 2021 in insurrection testimony
The HinduCapitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards described to lawmakers Thursday night what she could only describe as the “war scene” that she and other officers faced when rioters began viciously attacking them on January 6, 2021. Over her shoulder as Ms. Edwards testified sat fellow Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell and Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, all of whom testified about the violence they endured at a hearing of the panel last summer. But the moment Ms. Edwards recalled most vividly was the moment when she saw fellow officer Brian Sicknick turn “ghostly pale.” Mr. Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes the day after the attack. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer that I would find myself in the middle of a battle,” Ms. Edwards said.
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