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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDC police officer Daniel Hodges says Capitol rioters tried to recruit him because he was white: 'Are
you my brother?'At the opening hearing of the January 6th select committee on Tuesday, DC Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges said he was "recruited" to join the mob by some rioters during the Capitol riot.
The stunning testimony from Hodges came after one member asked him why he had called the Jan 6th riot a "white nationalist insurrection."
"Officer Hodges, you characterized the attack on the Capitol as a 'white nationalist insurrection.' Can you describe what you saw that led you to label the attack that way?" asked Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat, during the opening session of the select committee to investigate the January 6 siege.
Hodges, noting that the pro-Trump mob was made up of "overwhelmingly white males" and that they didn't say anything "especially xenophobic" to him, said he was treated differently than his non-white fellow officers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dc-police-officer-daniel-hodges-172538111.html
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jul 2021
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Corgigal
(9,291 posts)1. Of course they did,
because they been listening to Trump about how he owned the cops and the military. They thought they would have just changed into brown shirts, and went with them.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,741 posts)2. I suspect we will be hearing the phrase "race traitor"
Rear its ugly head again soon.
It will be said by the humanity traitors and democracy traitors.
mercuryblues
(14,522 posts)3. I think that was probably a Klansman
They call each other brother.