Within the early afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) flashed a fist pump of encouragement at a rising mob outdoors the U.S. Capitol. Hours later, in never-before-seen surveillance footage launched Thursday, the senator, now wanting fairly timid, is seen actually working away from the identical mob.
The hanging footage didn’t sit nicely with Michael Fanone, a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was crushed, electroshocked and almost killed by the insurrectionists.
“Josh Hawley is a bitch. And he ran like a bitch,” the 20-year police veteran advised Politico in an interview after the Jan. 6 Home choose committee listening to the place the surveillance footage was proven. “The fist pump, mixed with what he did within the rapid aftermath, simply reveals [his] true character ― or lack thereof.”
Whereas witnesses within the listening to erupted in laughter on the clip of Hawley high-tailing it away from his personal actions, it was no second of levity for Fanone.
“Clearly I see the amusement of it and I’m not going to fault folks for locating it humorous, however: That pisses me off. That man’s a clown,” he stated.
“You see the best way that these guys carry out in public, after which what they're in actuality ― you get plenty of that nonsense up right here on Capitol Hill with these members of Congress which have turn out to be a caricature within the media, however in actuality they don't have any character. They don't have any honor. They don't have any integrity.”
Fanone has been an outspoken critic of the GOP response to the Capitol riot. Testifying earlier than Congress final 12 months, he detailed the harrowing occasions he witnessed after responding to determined requires legislation enforcement backup on Jan. 6.
“I really feel like I went to hell and again to guard them, and the folks on this room,” he stated on the time. “However too many at the moment are telling me that hell doesn’t exist, or that hell wasn’t truly that unhealthy.”
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