Hand-to-hand combat led to more than a dozen officers being sent to the hospital, some of whom had bone fractures and concussions. Those are weapons.”Īs CNN has reported, rioters also used knives, stolen police shields, a stun gun, fire extinguisher and more.
The rioters “had all these items,” Gonell said, “used to attack us. Aquilino Gonell told Kinzinger that “(c)ommon things were used as weapons, like a baseball bat, a hockey stick, a rebar, a flagpole – including the American flag – pepper spray, bear spray.” And as the police officers who testified at the committee on Tuesday made clear, rioters also used numerous other objects as weapons such as knives and bats. Louie Gohmert of Texas claimed there was no evidence the riot was an “armed insurrection,” adding that “Not one person has been charged with bringing a firearm to the Capitol.”Īs Kinzinger noted during the hearing, all of these claims are inaccurate.įacts First: While it’s impossible to know precisely how many firearms were brought to the Capitol on January 6, it’s already clear that at least some of the people present were carrying guns that day. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin made waves for questioning whether the events of January 6 were really as violent as they appeared and suggested it wasn’t an armed insurrection. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of two Republicans Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to serve on the committee, ridiculed the idea that January 6 “was not an armed insurrection” and asked the four officers testifying to respond to that claim. The question of whether rioters were armed on January 6 has been among the most debated issues surrounding the insurrection – with some Republicans claiming the assailants were not armed, despite court documents alleging otherwise.ĭuring Tuesday’s House select committee hearing on January 6, we got fresh details and first-hand accounts from four police officers who came face to face with rioters and the weapons they brought, once again debunking this false narrative.
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