Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards painted a dramatic picture of the January 6 media-dubbed “insurrection” during a House panel hearing Thursday, claiming the altercation between police and Trump supporters that day was a “war scene.”
Testifying before Congress, Edwards described “carnage,” “slipping in people’s blood,” and “hand to hand combat” that was “way beyond anything that any law enforcement officer has ever trained for.”
“I remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I’d seen out of the movies. I couldn't believe my eyes. There were officers on the ground, they were bleeding, they were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood…It was carnage, it was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw."
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle,” Edwards continued.
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"I'm trained to detain, you know, a couple of subjects and handle a crowd. But I'm not combat trained, and that day it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat,” she went on.
"It was carnage. It was chaos. ... Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle."
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2022
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards describes "absolute war zone" outside of the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/Rs4FU3CqKW
Edwards testified that the events of January 6 were “way beyond anything that any law enforcement officer has ever trained for.”
Video from January 6 shows the moment Edwards was knocked to the ground while trying to hold a barricade with several fellow police officers. Edwards testified that she was knocked unconscious, but returned to duty after she woke up.
Video shows the moment that Officer Caroline Edwards suffered injuries outside of the U.S. Capitol. Edwards was thrown to the ground. pic.twitter.com/uMx2uhnCNM
— Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) June 10, 2022
Notably, the only person to be killed during the alleged bloodbath was Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot by Capitol police while trying to climb through the broken window of a locked door in the Capitol building.
Other video from the scene shows Capitol police on the other side of the building holding doors open for the crowd, who then milled about Statuary Hall.
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