Yahoo Movies Donald Trump Must Testify. He Should Have to Watch the Body-Cam Videos and Point Out the Hugs and Kisses.
The body-cam videos. Always the body-cam videos.
Let the politicians bluster and fume. Let the unreconstructed bastards lie about what happened on January 6. Let the duplicitous pond scum create their own narrative out of their dark, unquenchable ambitions, and the carefully cultivated ignorance of their prime audiences. The body cams don’t lie. They’re hard to watch. They leave a hot, sour aftertaste of revulsion and rage. But they do not lie.
It’s strange, in a way. For years, police-reform activists pleaded for body cams to become mandatory in order to catch bad cops doing bad things, and to defeat orchestrated cover-ups by prosecutors, police unions, and the aforementioned bad cops. Now, here we are, watching the body-cam videos of the crimes of January 6, and the videos are irrefutable proof of the offences committed against law-enforcement officers.
This is in no way to minimise the impact of the testimony given before the Select Committee investigating the insurrection by the officers who’d been invited to appear. You cannot dismiss the description of what happened to him offered by D.C. Metro police officer Michael Fanone:
But yet they tortured me. They beat me. I was struck with a taser device at the base of my skull numerous times. And they continued to do so, until I yelled out that I have kids.
You cannot dismiss DC Metro police officer Daniel Hodges’ description of the nightmarish moments in which he was trapped in a Capitol doorway at the mercy of the mob. "A meat grinder," Hodges said, and he described how he’d hoped not to be pulled to the ground.
At worst, [I might] be dragged down into the crowd and lynched.
A thought that was never far from the minds of Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, two non-white officers who testified on Tuesday about the…ah…special attention lavished on them by the tourists on that memorable day. Dunn admitted making the mistake of telling the crazies that he had voted for Joe Biden. Then came the response:
Did you hear that, guys, that [N-word] voted for Joe Biden.
But Dunn wasn’t finished. He was looking behind the invective and the bear spray to the architects of this awful event.
If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired them does. There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that.
Gonell was even more specific.
It's upsetting. It’s a pathetic excuse for his behaviour, for something that he himself helped to create, this monstrosity. I'm still recovering from those hugs and kisses that day. If that was hugs and kisses, then we should all go to his house and do the same thing to him.
To me, it's insulting, it's demoralising because everything that we did was to prevent everyone in the Capitol from getting hurt. And what he was doing instead of sending the military, instead of sending the support, or telling his people, his supporters to stop this nonsense, he egged them to continue fighting.
And they have the body-cam videos to back them up.
The former president* has to testify now. He has to be asked the tough questions, in some public forum, under oath. He has to be forced to watch the body-cam videos and to comment on them, to talk about how bear spray is a kiss and an improvised javelin is a hug, and how "shoot him with his own gun" is an expression of love and respect. The rest of them, too, of course—the little attendant rats, some of whom got hilariously run out of their own press conference on Tuesday as the officers were testifying elsewhere on Capitol Hill. (I’m no political consultant, but I’m willing to bet that, "Are you a pedophile?" is tops on the list of questions you do not want your client to field while pursued down a Washington street.) But Donald Trump has to be forced to confront what he did, and what he continues to do, to the country for which he does not give the smallest damn.
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