Officer Daniel Hodges is the young man who was trapped and crushed between 
the violent mob and a door post inside the Capitol building on January 6.
You have probably seen the video of his cries for help that has now been widely circulated.
His mouth is bloody. In multiple interviews he has described being beaten with his own baton. He was also tazed in the neck multiple times.
Fewer news sources have published Officer Hodges remarks on one of the most significant details about the pro-Trump mob who came to overturn the results of November’s election:
The insurrectionists were heavily armed.
You can read the entire article here. Below is an excerpt of an interview published by “The Police Tribune” where Hodges describes how the police had been confiscating weapons for hours prior to the capitol assault:
“The zealotry of these people is absolutely unreal,” Officer Hodges told reporters. “There were points where I thought it was possible I could either die or become seriously disfigured.”
He said he didn’t want to draw his service weapon because he said he knew that
some of the rioters had guns, too, The Washington Post reported.
“I didn’t want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns— we had been seizing guns all day,” Officer Hodges said. “And the only reason I could think of that they weren’t shooting us was they were waiting for us to shoot first. And if it became a firefight between a couple hundred officers and a couple thousand demonstrators, we would have lost.”
Now-former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned in disgrace the day after the Capitol riot, said that he had requested additional help at the Capitol multiple times ahead of the planned Jan. 6 protest in DC.
So much for Blue Lives Matter.
