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Roll Call reports:
Speaking up about his experience defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has made Daniel Hodges a target. But even as Donald Trump returns to the White House, vowing along the way to pardon many of the rioters who beat Hodges and his colleagues, the Metropolitan Police officer is not lying low. On Monday, he plans to return to the Capitol as a guest of Sen. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., to observe the certification of election results.
“They still make arrests. I still testify in court. It keeps getting harder and harder — I get more emotional in court. I don’t think a day has gone by where I don’t think about it,” Hodges said. In a video clip that has become emblematic of the violence of that day, a bloodied Hodges is seen wedged between a doorframe and a police shield that had been stolen by the mob. He screams for help as he and other outnumbered officers try to stop a swarm of rioters.
Read the full article. Hodges, who suffered a concussion in the beating, remains a Metro police officer. Watch his new interview below. One of his attackers was sentenced to seven years.
DC officer Daniel Hodges, injured by mob on Jan 6, will attend electoral certification today
Hodges: “It’ll be my honor to make it as uncomfortable as possible for the GOP members who try to whitewash that day and lie about what happened and pretend that we didn’t save them” pic.twitter.com/fxC1hn9Xuy
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 6, 2025
Steven Cappuccio was sentenced to 7 years after he stole Officer Hodges’ baton and used it to beat him mercilessly. Hodges was caught in the doorway, bear-maced and tortured before the world. Heroically, after being dislodged and washing his eyes and face, he rejoined the fight. pic.twitter.com/5nm02WJrKH
— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) December 30, 2024