Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recalls officer grabbing him during Capitol riots: "We're in danger"
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A year after the Capitol riots, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer can recall that day vividly. The New York senator told "CBS Mornings" that he had just gotten to the floor at 1 p.m. and was preparing to give a speech when a Capitol police officer grabbed him.
"A Capitol Hill police officer with a bulletproof vest, submachine gun across his waist, grabs me by the collar... I'll never forget it. [He] says 'Senator, we're in danger,''' Schumer said.
Schumer said he was 30 feet from the rioters—one of them who was armed with a gun. He said that one rioter was reported to have said an anti-Semitic slur about Schumer.
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