Jan. 6 officer describes defending the Capitol
Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer, Aquilino Gonell, describes what it was like to defend the capital against Jan. 6, 2021, rioters.
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They used their platform on the bench to denounce efforts to downplay the Jan. 6 violence and cast the rioters as political prisoners.
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended Congress that day is nowhere to be found.
