'When will I be free ... of my brain injury? When will I be free and whole again?' A US Capitol Police officer knocked unconscious on January 6 has condemned Capitol rioters for injuring police and robbing her of the ability to do her job.
"When will I be free ... of my brain injury? When will I be free and whole again?" the officer said in a written statement read by prosecutors at a federal court hearing Friday.
According to prosecutors, defendant Ryan Samsel pushed a metal barricade into the officer outside the Capitol near an intersection called the Peace Circle, causing her to fall and hit her head on stairs behind her and knocking her unconscious. The altercation was an early moment in the siege where Trump supporters were able to make it past one barricaded section of the grounds, according to court records.
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