Remember

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Ophelia Benson

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Michael Beschloss is doing a “Remember” today.

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5 responses to “Remember”

  1. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    Hope he remembers the one with the confederate flag in the capital.

  2. Sastra Avatar
    Sastra

    Michael Beschloss is doing a “Remember” today.

    That was the worst. valentine. ever.

  3. maddog1129 Avatar
    maddog1129

    I don’t know what the last picture is depicting. Is it a police officer getting shoved through a broken window? or something else?

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    It’s a police officer being painfully squashed between two doors, also being walloped with sticks. He’s one of the much-discussed targets of violence from the trumpies that day. There’s also a video clip, in which you can hear him howling in pain.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    A guy was arrested in that attack two weeks later.

    A Connecticut man has been arrested on charges that he assaulted a Washington police officer, whom he pinned between two doors, during the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol.

    Patrick Edward McCaughey III, 23, of Ridgefield, repeatedly told Metropolitian Police Officer Daniel Hodges “just go home” and “come on man, you are going to get squished” as he pinned Hodges between a police riot shield that McCaughey was holding and the doors, a criminal complaint said.

    As McCaughey did so, another rioter “began violently ripping off Officer Hodges’ gas mask, exposing Officer Hodges bloodied mouth,” said the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

    “Don’t try and use that stick on me boy,” McCaughey snapped at Hodges, referring to a police riot baton.

    Hodges is seen on a YouTube video of the attack crying out in pain as a horde of supporters of then-President Donald Trump pushed in against him, adding their weight to McCaughey’s.

    McCaughey was spotted leaving the Capitol later by security cameras after hitting other cops with the riot shield, according to the complaint.

    He’s being held without bail.

    Hodges later told reporters about his effort to hold back the mob: “If it wasn’t my job, I would have done that for free.”

    “It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection, and we’ll do it as many times as it takes,” Hodges said.

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