Officer on Capitol Hill Violence: These People Were Real Believers in a Real Way

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HODGES: “There a guy ripping my mask off and he was able to rip away my baton and beat me with it. You know, he was practically foaming at the mouth. So, these people were true believers in the worst way. (...) Things were looking bad. Obviously I was calling out for all I was worth and an officer behind me was able to give me enough room to pull me out of there and they brought me to the rear so I was able to extricate myself. (...) The cognitive dissonance and the zealotry of these people is unreal. They were waving the thin blue line flag and telling us, 'You know, we’re not your enemy,' while attacking us and, you know, killed one of us."