Four of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6 during the insurrection spoke Tuesday before members of a U.S. House Select Committee, recalling their personal accounts of the day.
One of the members at the hearing was Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman Schiff told KNX In Depth that the officers' personal accounts showed how brutal the attack on the Captiol was.
“It would be very hard, I think for anyone to watching that hearing, not to be moved by what these officers said," Congressman Schiff told KNX. "What they’ve experienced, the beatings they took, the bear spray they got in the face, the fact that one of them was unconscious for minutes, tased in the back of the head, and had a heart attack – you see just how brutal this insurrection was.”
When asked about what it was like to work with those across the political aisle, Schiff called it "disorienting" but needed.
"You very quickly forget you’re members of different parties and really that’s the way it should be particularly on an issue like this," he said. "...We had the same view of pretty much what needed to do. That we needed to bring up the truth and we needed to play our part in restoring the bedrock principle of the country."
As for whether or not House members such as Kevin McCarthy or Jim Jordan or even former president Donald Trump could make an appearance at these hearings, Schiff says it's possible.
"I think it’s certainly feasible that any of those members or the former president could be called to testify if they have any relevant testimony and information. As the chairman has said, no one is off the table.”