Who hired the hitman? Police officers demand answers from Capitol riot committee

By Dan Balz

July 28, 2021 — 7.13am

Four police officers on Tuesday told lawmakers they were beaten, taunted with racial insults, heard threats including “kill him with his own gun” and thought they might die as they struggled to defend the Capitol against a mob of then-president Trump’s supporters.

Gonell described the fury as being like a medieval battlefield, with officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat and the attackers armed with flagpoles, clubs, hockey sticks, bear spray and other crude weapons.

Someone, he said, had hired a hitman. The hitman was the mob that attacked him and his fellow officers. He wanted to know who hired the hitman. “I want to get to the bottom of that,” he said.
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