These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist Ass Terrorists"
"I found out what they were planning when a friend of mine screenshot me an Instagram story from the Proud Boys saying, 'We're breaching the capitol today, guys. I hope y'all already.'" The officer, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from his superiors, told BuzzFeed News
“That was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us," he said. "They had radios, we found them, they had two-way communicators and earpieces. They had bear spray. They had flash bangs ...They were prepared. They strategically put two IEDs, pipe bombs in two different locations. These guys were military trained. A lot of them were former military,” the veteran said, referring to two suspected pipe bombs that were found outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.
The officer even described coming face to face with police officers from across the country in the mob. He said some of them flashed the badges, telling him to let them through, and trying to explain that this was all part of a movement that was supposed to help.
“You have the nerve to be holding a blue lives matter flag, and you are out there fucking us up,” he told one group of protestors he encountered inside the Capitol. “[One guy] pulled out his badge and he said, ‘we're doing this for you.’ Another guy had his badge. So I was like, ‘well, you gotta be kidding.’”
"We were telling them to back up and get away and stop, and they're telling us, they are on our side, and they're doing this for us, and they’re saying this as I'm getting punched in my face by one of them … That happened to a lot of us. We were getting pepper sprayed in the face by those protesters, I'm not going to even call them protestors, by those domestic terrorists,” said the officer.
“There’s quite a big difference when the Black Lives Matter protests come up to the capitol," he said. "[On Wednesday], some officers were catering to the rioters.”
He said that what upset him the most was when he later saw images of a white colleague taking a selfie with the attackers, seeming to enjoy his time with the insurrectionists who were roaming the US Capitol with confederate flags and other symbols of white supremacy.
"That one hurt me the most because I was on the other side of the Capitol getting my ass kicked," he said.
He is certain that if a group of Black Americans had stormed the Capitol they wouldn’t have gotten that kind of friendly reception from his white colleagues.
“If you're going to treat a group of demonstrators for Black Lives Matters one way, then you should treat this group the same god damn way. With this group you were being kind and nice and letting them walk back out. Some of them got arrested but a lot of them didn't. Everyone who came into that Capitol should have been arrested regardless if they didn't take anything.”
“Our chief was nowhere to be found, I didn't hear him on the radio. One of our other deputy chiefs was not there,” he said. “You don't think it's all hands on deck?”
“I sat down with one of my buddies, another Black guy, and tears just started streaming down my face," he said. "I said, 'what the fuck, man? Is this America? What the fuck just happened? I'm so sick and tired of this shit.'"
Soon he was screaming, so that everyone in the rotunda, including his white colleagues, could hear what he had just gone through.
"These are racist ass terrorists," he yelled out.
"I got called a nigger 15 times today,” the veteran officer shouted in the rotunda to no one in particular. "Trump did this and we got all of these fucking people in our department that voted for him. How the fuck can you support him?"
“I cried for about 15 minutes and I just let it out.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob
