WEBVTT - January 6th Was Worse Than You Remember | Angela Rye SoloPod 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.400 Native Lampid is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.360 Reason Choice Media. Welcome Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:14.600 Welcome home everyone. This is another edition of Native Lampod. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.560 I am your host of this solo pod. I'm ANGELAUII, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.120 and today we are talking about something that is near 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.239 and dear to my heart, a very sobering reality. Just 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.200 five years ago, on January sixth, twenty twenty one, the 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.600 world that I knew it, the Capitol Hill that I 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.400 worked on, that built my career professionally, was changed forever. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.960 On that day, Donald Trump denied election results that were 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:45.559 very clear and encouraged protesters, an angry mob from all 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.360 over the country that had descended onto the United States 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:54.680 Capital to challenge election results, to push back, telling them 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.840 that the Democratic Party what had stolen the election, that 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.080 it had been rigged, that he never saw rigging like 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.080 that before. He blamed tech companies and everyone else for 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.840 an election outcome that was clear and decisive on the 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.199 other side of a COVID nineteen pandemic, on the other 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.880 side of George Floyd's murder, and the people who always 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.559 talked about backing the Blue the people who always talked 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.360 about blue lives matter. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.240 This is what they did instead. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.640 O gun, We're. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:30.839 Gonna stop this crowd. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.280 Yeah, so this he said, you know, do you think 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.520 your p shooter guns are going to stop this crowd, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.720 meaning that they're willing to get shot to accomplish their 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.440 goal to go inside the building and carry out whatever 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:48.480 violence they had in mind. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.720 A lot of people who maybe didn't know the context 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.520 of January sixth, would ask why were there's no arrests? 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.960 Could you just explain that. Sure, to make an arrest, 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:06.160 you they require usually at least two officers, and once 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.399 you have someone under arrest, you are responsible for them. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.480 You are responsible for their health and their safety, and 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:18.960 you're responsible for transporting them securely to jail to where 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.200 they would be processed. I mean, we couldn't guarantee our 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.520 own health and safety, let alone those of anyone else. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.480 And if we were to try to make arrests, every 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.040 rest would require at least one officer leaving the scene, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.440 and we needed every single officer we had. So it 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.280 was just it was not feasible to make any rest. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.120 It would be irresponsible, it would be ineffective to our 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:51.320 own defense, it would be dangerous. It was just not possible. Yeah, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.320 there's so many of them, so a few of us 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.240 that you know, once we lose the line, there's no 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.040 way of getting it back. So they break through and 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.639 it devolves in the the West Front. It devolves into 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.120 a series of pitched battles in between individuals. And I 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.680 can't commit to an attack on anyone because once I do, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.840 ten more people are gonna come at me. Scott pushes 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:16.120 me on the chest, pushing me back. This Champo over here, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.839 thanks the capital belongs to him, and here I get 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.640 pinned against this wist tile wall. You can hear it 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:30.639 right here. That's me screaming because someone of the guy 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.560 in the strided sweater thing is reaching underneath my visor 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.040 and trying to gouge out my eye with. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.400 His thumb, trying to goadge out his eyes. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.480 And that is Officer Danny Hodges, who is a Capitolhill 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.400 police officer, talking about his experience. And what NPR did 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.120 is they showed footage from the bodycam footage of officers 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.080 and allowed them to respond to what was happening on 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.640 January sixth, twenty twenty one. Next, I want you to 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.680 hear from at the time the Commander in Chief, Donald 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.000 Trump at this rally, which really ended up being a riot. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.280 And again, most people would stand there at nine o'clock 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:09.960 in the evening and say I want to thank you 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.160 very much, and they go off to some other life. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.960 But I said, something's wrong here, something's really wrong. Can't 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.880 have happened. And we fight. We fight like hell. And 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.000 if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.800 have a country anymore. Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.000 have not yet begun, my fellow Americans, for our movement, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.839 for our children, and for our beloved country. And I 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.800 say this, despite all that's happened, the best is yet 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:53.440 to come. So we're going to we're going to walk 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.720 down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're going 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.200 to the Capitol and we're going to and give the 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.640 Democrats are hopeless. They're never voting for anything, not even 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.039 one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.360 the weak ones, because the strong ones don't need any 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.839 of our help. We're going to try and give them 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.719 the kind of pride and boldness that they need to 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:27.000 take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:27.720 I want to. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:28.520 Thank you all. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.560 God bless you and God bless America. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:33.720 Thank you all for being here. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.560 This is incredible. Thank you very much. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.480 So now I want to bring in someone who also 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.880 was there that day on January sixth, twenty twenty one. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.920 His name is Officer Harry Dunn. He's a Capitol Hill 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.880 police officer. Folks who became like family to me, and 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.760 Harry is one of them. So let's bring him in. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.360 I want you all to hear from him. Hi, Harry, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:54.920 thank you so much for being here today. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.280 Hey angela happy New Year to you. Thanks for having me. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:05:59.360 Happy New Year. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.320 I know you are running all over the place today 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.680 having to relive this really awful experience, But I do 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.159 think it's important for those people who are at home, Harry, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.719 who may have never set foot on Capitol grounds, to 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.040 talk about what happened that day and what your experience was. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.120 We know when Donald Trump came in this term, he 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:24.159 pardoned more than sixteen hundred people who were affiliated with 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.560 the violence and the havoc that was reaked on Capitol Hill. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.520 So can you talk a little bit about your experience 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.440 and what you saw that day? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.679 Sure, one thing that you just said actually really stood 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.039 out to me, just that quickly people that have made 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.560 never stood foot on Capitol ground or the Capitol they 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.760 were under attacked that day, whether you stepped there or not, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.880 because your representatives were under attacked, the people that represent 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.960 you in the communities wherever you're listening to the show from. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.360 They wanted to overturn your vote or not even counter 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.120 your vote. They wanted what they wanted to install install 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.520 Donald Trump to be president again when he lost an election. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.680 There was no evidence of that to the contrary to 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.680 say that he didn't lose it. But I say this often, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.000 we don't need people to tell us what happened on 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.920 January sixth. You know I've been doing it because clearly 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.320 there's a battle going on right now, people conflating, not 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.400 even complaining, just with out lying about what happened on 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.000 that day versus what happened. We don't need people to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.160 tell us, Like we saw the footage that you just 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.280 played that just press play. You don't need anybody to 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.080 analyze that footage. But it's unfortunate that we have to 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.200 push back and say, yes, it's really happened, and it 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.880 was one hundred times worse than what the footage actually shows. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.480 That nobody in their right mind watches that footage and say, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.000 oh wow, that's that's an acceptable thing to do. If 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.880 somebody is thinking that, like they need they say one 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.520 hundred miles from me, like, that's not this isn't cool. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:56.720 But these people, these terrorists, these thugs, insurrectionists attacked me 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.800 and my coworkers and everybody else listening like this was 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:05.320 an attack on American principles, American democracy and free and 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:10.200 fair elections, all because of one man. Donald Trump solely, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.680 solely could have prevented January sixth. If Donald Trump didn't 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.360 tell his writers to go to the Capitol, they wouldn't 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:21.480 have been there. They were emboldened the most powerful person 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.160 and the are going to be the world told them 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.240 to go to the Capitol. Now listen, when my mom 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.080 tell me to do something, I don't care who tell 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.640 me to the contrary, my mama said do it, I'm 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.079 gonna do it. Imagine the most powerful person in the 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.960 world giving you marching orders. You're like, oh, okay, we 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.120 can do this. So that's where the audacity came from 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.679 of these individuals feelings they had the right to do 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.000 what they were doing. They thought that they were right. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.160 Now they're stupid for thinking that, But that goes to 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.640 the mindset of the people that were there and the 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.200 power and the whole that Donald Trump has over them. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.920 Well, what's scary now, Officer Done, is you know, we 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.880 all know what happened, but if you go to official 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.480 government websites now, the way that they are framing January 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.200 sixth is vastly different than what we are seeing with 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.240 our own two eyes. So I do think it's important 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.520 for people to understand when you say, me and my 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.360 colleagues were attacked, what was that experience? 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.000 What was your role? Where were you on January sixth? 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.760 Sure? So, I fortunately I was blessed. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.560 I didn't suffer a lot of the physical attacks that 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:26.720 a lot of my coworkers did. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.440 I was on an Overwatch post. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.280 I had a long rifle attached to me, and I 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.720 was kind of like Overwatch, and I made the conscious 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.319 decision not to go down in the crowd because that 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.600 weapon's going to get snatched from me and you're just 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.440 going to be outnumbered, like one person. You know, I 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.320 feel like I could throw hands a little bit, you know, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.320 one person going in there he's not going to make 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.920 a big difference. When you got all those people down there, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.319 we needed help from the National Guard. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.000 We needed help. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.000 Like people asked, well, how did the rioters finally get 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.800 under control? It wasn't no secret code that we use 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.760 or some magic word. Help backup arrived. The National Guard 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.800 showed up. Law enforcement showed up from all other precincts 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.080 and jurisdictions across from the eastern the eastern East coast, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.720 from New Jersey, Virginia, New York. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.600 There were officers all up North Carolina. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.640 People came to help, and that's how we finally got 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.479 the crowds under control. But these people were beating officers, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.320 calling us traders and talking about we can do this 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.120 the hard way, the easy way of the hard way. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.640 We don't want to hurt you, but we will. These 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:33.680 are quotes from them. Stand with us. They're telling stand 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.280 with us, We're here to stop the Still these are 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.880 quotes from that day. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.320 When you think about how long it took, one of 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.160 the things that we hear often from members of the 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.600 Democratic Party is that Donald Trump refused to send in 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.440 the National Guard. If you can recount at that time, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.120 like how long you remember it taking How long was. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.560 It before the National Guard arrived? 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.800 Well, thim's a blur. Time is a blur that day. No, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.600 I don't. I don't have any at least in that moment. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.960 Obviously, in the aftermath and being able to see for 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.800 one hundred and eighty seven, one hundred and eighty nine 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.520 or whatever the exact number was, we're able to see 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.600 three plus hours. But in that moment, I didn't know 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.679 whether it was ten minutes or four hours. I didn't know. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.640 The only thing we were working focused on is survival. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.679 As a police officer, your goal at the end of 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.040 the day is to go home. Some people did not 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.160 go home at the end of their shift that day, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.360 and we were all focused a man, woman, black, white, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.560 getting each other home to their loved ones and to 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:33.280 their families. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.640 And that's I think is the part to me, And 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.960 maybe this is my bias, so I'll acknowledge that the 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.959 Capitol Hill Police is built different to me. Officer done like, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.080 these are the people who when we worked super late 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.880 at night, I'm walking around the building like Longworth or 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.320 ray Burn with no shoes on feet are done. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:51.720 You know. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.520 These are the people who, when I could finally put 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.520 those shoes back on. They will walk us to our cars. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.760 They're asking about our families. They met, some of them 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.839 met my parents. You know, the ones that are checking 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.720 you and screening you when you first get in. How's 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.439 your mom doing, how's your dad doing? Like they're different. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.360 It's not like a traditional police force, so these it 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.240 felt like family. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.880 So I'm looking now there are. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.960 Some like the guy I cannot think of his officer's name, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.360 but you probably know who I'm talking about behind cannon 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.400 that he's at. I'm sorry, y'all, this is and I'm 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.960 not shaming, but he's a chubby or white guy, older 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.599 and he's always yelling at people, even in the crosswalk. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:27.520 I don't even know if he's still there, but like, right, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.000 but there are the exception and not the norm. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.240 And so what I what I'm curious. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.720 About is like what you all were thinking, because even 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.440 though we weren't your colleagues in uniform, we were your 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:38.040 colleagues too. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.480 We're your extended family too. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.000 What were some of the thoughts you had about folks 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.440 you really cared about and if they were okay. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.480 Keeping them safe? 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.520 And if you look the number one goal of the 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.120 Capitol Police is to create a safe environment so Congress 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:57.000 can fulfill their constitutional obligations. That's literally the mission statement 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.199 of Capitol Police. And I would like to say say 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.480 at the end of the day, that mission was upheld. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.160 Now it took a hell of a detour, you know, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.079 it took a moment, but Congress went back and certified 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.040 the election in the wee hours of the morning, early 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.160 in the morning. So that's one of the things that 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.000 make me proud. I remember seeing I never it was 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.120 an officer in the midst of the chaos, and this 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.760 image always stands in my head was carrying what appeared 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.800 to be a staff member, carrying them running through the 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.719 crypt as rioters were approaching. I don't know if the 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.079 person was hurt. I don't I don't even know who 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:32.920 the officer was. I just saw somebody and they were 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.200 carrying that person like a football, and they would just 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.199 keep these people safe. And not one member got hurt, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.800 not one staffer got hurt, Not even a hair on 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:43.840 their head was harmed. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.520 And I'd take very much, very pride in that. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 And like you said, Capitol Police are different than your 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.400 normal police force, and I just take pride in that. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:52.360 Well. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.559 I thank you so much officer them for your time. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.760 I know that you're going to continue to do this work. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.240 What's the thing that you would tell people at home 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.000 to do to make sure that one we remember what 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.400 happened and we prevent what happens going forward. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.400 What would you tell us to do? 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.880 Stay engaged? Simple, simple, right, But it's so easy to 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.400 check out. Listen a lot of people. I think when 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.800 somebody tells you, hey, everything's going to be all right, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.319 whether it's you're going through a breakup or whether you're 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.240 dealing with the Hey, it's gonna be okay, I don't know. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.720 That's the biggest gas lighting phrase I've ever heard of 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:23.960 my life. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.200 It's going to be okay. We don't know. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.600 I don't know if we're going to survive these next 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.400 three years coming up with this Trump administry. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:30.960 I don't know. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.240 However, I do know if we don't show up, if 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.119 we just roll over and accept it, then we absolutely 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.000 will not survive it. But showing up gives us a 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.200 fighting chance. So stay engaged, stay involved, stay in the game. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 Do whatever you can do, whether it's calling, whether it's 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.800 calling educating a friend, registering somebody to vote. Voting is 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.440 just something you have to do something to stay engaged, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.320 to stay involved, because you don't want to just say 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.360 damn if I could have, I should have, could have 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.840 would have do so well. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.000 I'm so grateful that you stay engaged. Thank you so 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.120 much for practicing what you preach, for joining me and 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.840 please come back to an Officer Done. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:09.360 Absolutely, thank you. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.120 I appreciate you absolutely. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:24.000 Likewise, well, y'all, we are just getting started into this show. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.520 Officer Done is tremendous, so brave for sharing his story 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.520 consistently on and off air, making sure that we know 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.480 to stay engaged, and on that I think in order 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.920 to stay engaged, we have to understand the facts. So 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.280 I want to take us back into January sixth, twenty 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.960 twenty one, and what I want to do first actually 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.720 is bring in the clip that I recorded. It was 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.560 the Instagram Live right when all this was going on, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.040 and I'll tell you, as I was recording this particular clip, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.200 I was thinking about all of my Hill family. I 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.920 was calling my members and telling them to please not 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.600 move from where they were, to stay locked in their 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.800 offices in case they thought they could move around. I 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:10.120 remember Congressman Joyce Beatty was having a meeting organizing meeting 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.640 for the Congressional Black Caucus, and she began her tenure. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.920 I asked her to please not leave her office. I 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.080 called Congressman Carson and Congressman Thompson. I was texting and 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.600 Congressman Cleaver asking them where they were in one particular moment. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.960 We have a Congressional Black Caucus family thread, and that 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.400 is with my former team, and Brandon and Stephanie were 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.000 already off the Hill, as was I, but our sister 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.680 LaTrece Powell was still there and she worked for Nancy Pelosi, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.960 and we saw that Nancy Pelosi was a prime target. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.560 The Republican Party has long made Nancy Pelosi a boogeyman, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.720 and so we began to think about Trees, and so 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.760 we asked Trees where she was. And we didn't hear 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.040 from Latrese for three hours, and I was so scared 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.800 in the midst of that I recorded this video. I 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.920 just am kind of in shock. I'm not in shock 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.560 that this is happening. I'm not in shock that the 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.040 Capitol Hill police, not all of them, because there are 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.600 some great officers, but there are definitely some who were 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:12.520 taking selfies with protesters, with terrorists and there were those who. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:13.399 Helped to move the gates. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.159 And so when I think about Congressman Cleaver or Congressman 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.360 Carson or Congressman Jeffries, or Congresswoman Omar or Congresswoman Presley 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.800 or congressmanber Bass or the new chair of the Congressional 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.680 Black Caucus, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, I'm thinking about people who 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.000 are my family members, congress Congressman GK. Butterfield, who are 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.080 in these buildings on the House floor to do the 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:41.159 people's business. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.159 You know, staffers who. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.320 Are working to ensure that the whole of America is good, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.240 whether you voted for their bosses or not. Right, the 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.400 fact of the matter is, this is not a game. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.160 It's never been a game. It was not a game 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.920 when Donald Trump was campaigning off this bullshit in twenty sixteen. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.640 It wasn't a game when I was. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.000 On CNN arguing with people who did not have the 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.320 credibility to even be sitting opposite of me. This has 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.960 never been a joke. It's never been about a rating. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.520 This has never been about, you know, a divided America, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.359 and we tap into it and study the impact. This 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.240 was always going to be the consequence of giving airtime, 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:27.360 on social media, on cable news, on radio to domestic terrorists. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.880 This was always going to be the consequence of this, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.359 And so what we really have to imagine is how 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.840 long we are going to continue to be terrorized, because 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.120 that's what's been going on since fourteen ninety two. It's 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.879 not a surprise that white people who are threatened that 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.639 their power is gone will behave this way. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.680 It's not surprising to any. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.600 Of us because it happens in our neighborhoods. It happens 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.480 every time someone in our family is pulled over by 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.879 a police officer. This is what happen, happens, This is 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.600 what we are telling you, this is what we've been saying. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.720 So when you talk to me about how defund the 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.119 police is terrorism, when you talk to me and you 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.600 tell me how Black Lives Matter is terrorism, I don't 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.760 want you to say shit else to me about that, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.200 because it's not real. The terrorists are the folks who 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:32.560 are on my TV right now, making it so. Members 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.800 of Congress who I love and even those who I don't, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.119 are stuck in their offices, stuck together in undisclosed locations, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.159 afraid and really ready to go home. But don't know 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.560 where all the protesters may be, the folks who are 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:53.200 concerned that there might be another explosive device in the Capitol. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.240 At the bottom line is we're talking about what domestic 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.280 terrorism looks like. And I think that what you are 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.520 very clear about. No matter how they try to whitewash 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.119 pun intended history, it was a terrorist attack on Capitol 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.679 Hill that day. And it wasn't a foreign terrorist attack 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.960 on Capitol Hill that day. It was a domestic terrorist 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:19.320 attack encouraged incited by the commander in chief at that time. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.160 So I want to remind you again with your own 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.560 two eyes of what that terrorist attack looks like. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:25.359 Let's throw the clip. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.080 That's why do you want to go? 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:28.159 You want to go back to. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.960 Get what is your kids? Now? 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:39.480 I do. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.639 It's my partner, Mike staying there, Buddy, Mike, it's Jimmy. 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:44.000 I'm here. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:51.280 Take Mike, I'm here for you. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:57.760 Come on, dud Well, Mike, Buddy, We're going to hellcott sit. No, 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.960 k take that doorback. Yeah we did, Yes, we did. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:05.720 We took the funt door back all outside. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:07.960 Do you even remember saying that? 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.680 No? No, It's like. 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:18.840 In character, I was always like a pretty mission focused 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.120 cop and that was a goal plus like I mean shit, 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.760 I guess like subconsciously I was thinking if I just 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.760 went through all of that and we lost the goddamn door. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:28.959