Please remember while Officer Daniel Hodges testifies

[Mersky]

8. Notes from watching his testimony earlier today

Ofc Hodges describing the flags the terrorists wielded

How some of them fashioned themselves as Christians based on the flags, or police supporters carrying thin blue lines to attack him.

Oh man, he describes an attacker wanting the cops and everyone to pause for him because he had asthma. As if the attack was to be at his convenience - I could see from Ofc Hodges expression how is one of many moments that just burns for him.

Then he described his head injury requiring him to call for help, that he feared he wouldn’t be able to stay standing much longer. That he’d turn into a liability for the rest of the force or be dragged out into the crowd and lynched. How he took up a different post until reinforcements arrived, clapping when they finally appeared.

Is all forceful testimony of trauma and violence caused by the terrorists that day.

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Typically, I live comment on DU for important hearing. I find myself mostly listening, and watching as an American feeling betrayed and just needing the truth. Was gonna post this earlier, but got caught up emotionally.