Black Capitol Police officers say they were attacked by “racist terrorists” during the riots – some of whom referred to them repeatedly as the N-word, a report said.
Two agents described being subject to racial abuse – including libel – during Wednesday’s chaos that killed five people, including one of their colleagues, BuzzFeed reported.
‘I’ve been called [an N-word] 15 times today, ” one of the officers, who is a police veteran, recalled screaming as the pro-Trump crowd dispersed, the outlet reported.
Another officer, who is a newer recruit, described being forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the rioters, some of whom hurled Blue Lives Matter flags at them.
“We told them to stand back and go and stop, and they told us they’re on our side, and they do this for us, and they say this while I was in my face through one of them,” said he against the exhaust valve.
“We got pepper sprayed in the face by those protesters, I’m not even going to call them protesters, by those domestic terrorists,” the officer said.
The older officer reportedly said it was downplayed how sophisticated the crowd of Trump supporters was.
“That was a highly trained group of militia terrorists attacking us,” he told the outlet.
He said that in addition to homemade explosives and pipe bombs, they also had radios, two-way communicators and earphones.
‘These guys were military trained. Many of them were former soldiers, ”the officer told BuzzFeed.
When they finally got the violence under control, the veteran officer said a surge of emotion came over him.
“I sat down with one of my friends, another black man, and tears just started running down my cheeks,” he told BuzzFeed.
“I said, ‘Who cares, man? Is this America? What just happened? I’m so sick and tired of this st.”
In the middle of the Rotunda, he started yelling at no one in particular, “These are racist terrorists.”
“I cried for about 15 minutes and I just let it go,” he told the news outlet.