“This Is How I’m Going to Die” - From My January 6 Reporting Archives

Here I document the police officer testimony from the first January 6 Committee Hearing and how they beat back “fascist traitors”.

Originally published in 2021.

On July 27, 2021, democracy exhaled. 

Six months after domestic terrorists tried to overthrow the government in the name of Trump and God, police officers who were present on that malevolent day spoke their truth. With achingly powerful testimony, each described their attempts to hold the line, and the subsequent trauma they …