{"id":131644,"date":"2023-03-07T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=131644"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:57:19","slug":"i-was-slipping-in-peoples-blood-eyewitnesses-testify-at-jan-6-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/i-was-slipping-in-peoples-blood-eyewitnesses-testify-at-jan-6-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I was slipping in people\u2019s blood&quot;: Eyewitnesses testify at Jan. 6 hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/_aWQsEo3wrOtJit0IlNpEux-9mI=\/0x0:3500x1969\/1920x1080\/2022\/06\/10\/1654827594191.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Edward and Nick Quested swear in to a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack. Photo: Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Two eyewitnesses to the Jan. 6 attack provided detailed testimony about what they saw and experienced during the riot to Thursday&#x27;s primetime committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news: <\/strong>&quot;I was slipping in people\u2019s blood,&quot; U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, believed to be the first officer injured on Jan. 6,recounted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;It was carnage. It was chaos. I can\u2019t even describe what I saw.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>The Jan. 6 committee also played a video that shows Edwards being pushed by rioters to the ground, hitting her head on the Capitol steps where she was knocked unconscious. <\/li>\n<li>Edwards suffered a concussion from the attack and experienced fainting spells for months after the insurrection, the New York Times reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>British documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, <\/strong>who was following the Proud Boys right-wing extremist group, also described what he saw on Jan. 6, saying the crowd turned &quot;from protesters, to rioters, to insurrectionists.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;I was surprised by the size of the group, the anger and the profanity,&quot; he testified. <\/li>\n<li>Quested also described being &quot;confused&quot; that &quot;a couple of hundred of Proud Boys were marching toward the Capitol&quot; before Trump\u2019s speech. <\/li>\n<li>&quot;I was confused to an extent why we were walking away from the president&#x27;s speech because that&#x27;s what I felt we were there to cover,&quot; Quested said.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>The testimony from two eyewitnesses set the backdrop for the committee&#x27;s argument that the insurrection &quot;was a result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden,&quot; Axios&#x27; Alayna Treene reports.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Jan. 6 committee chairs, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), tied Trump to the events of that violent day. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,&quot; Cheney said. <\/li>\n<li> &quot;Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup,&quot; Thompson said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#x27;s next: <\/strong>Thursday&#x27;s primetime, Watergate-style hearing was the first in a series of public hearings that are scheduled for the rest of the month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The committee has a subsequent hearing scheduled for June 13 at 10 a.m. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go deeper&#8230; <\/strong>Jan 6 committee airs closed door video of Bill Barr deposition<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/09\/caroline-edwards-nick-quested-testify-jan-6-committee-hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Edward and Nick Quested swear in to a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack. 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