Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2021-07-28

Capitol riot like ‘medieval battle’

The January 6 US Capitol attack by a mob of then-US president Donald Trump’s supporters trying to overturn his election loss featured violence resembling a medieval battlefield, a police officer hurt in the melee told a congressional panel yesterday. At the Democratic-led House of Representatives investigatory committee’s first hearing, the officer, Aquilino Gonell, testified of being pummelled by rioters fired up by Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him via widespread voting fraud. “What we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battlefield. We fought hand-to-hand and inch-by-inch to prevent an invasion of the Capitol by a violent mob intent on subverting our democratic process,” said Gonell, one of four police officers called to testify. “The physical violence was horrific.” The nine-member panel…
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