'Grabbed, Beaten, Tased': Police Recount US Capitol Riot

Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell, a US Army Iraq combat veteran, said he was battered and sustained multiple injuries requiring hospitalization from the armed attackers.

Attacked with their own weapons, racially-abused and left fearing for their lives: US police officers on Tuesday described harrowing acts of violence from supporters of Donald Trump who stormed the US Capitol, on the first day of congressional hearings into the attack. 'Medieval battle' Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell, a US Army Iraq combat veteran, said he was battered and sustained multiple injuries requiring hospitalization from the armed attackers. "In Iraq, we expected armed violence, because we were in a war zone. Nothing in my experience in the army or as a law enforcement officer prepared me for what we confronted on January 6," he told the House hearing.