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Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Dunns testimony given to the House select committee investigating the Capitol riots described the racism and abuse he endured.

The Monitor interviewed nearly two dozen people at the Capitol Jan. 6 to put together a fuller picture of that day and to discern where America may be heading.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell about the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell about the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The choice by the committee to first feature at least two officers involved in what increasingly appears to be a cover-up of the violent death of a second female Trump supporter at the hands of police on January 6 was an effort to canonize Gonell and Dunn and shield them from any media or legislative scrutiny.

Its nice to for once people beginning to acknowledge what happened. and hopefully that will change the conversation because there are still a lot of powerful citizens including elected officials that continue to deny what happened, continue to down-play it even though some of them themselves were running for their lives or were scared that day. and its unbelievable the lack of support and to acknowledge what happened. >> sergeant gonell, what has the last week been like since the testimony of --...

What happened, continue to downplay, even though some of them themselves were running for their lives or were scared that day. and its unbelievable the lack of support and to acknowledge what happened.ei nb >> sergeant gonell, what has the last week been like since the testimony of -- your testimony alongside officer hodges, officer dunn, and officer fanone? >> well, since the hearing, its almost the same for me. i still got to go to physical therapy twice a week for about two hours, sometimes t...

Gonell. he told lawmakers that january 6th was scarier than any day of his deployment to iraq. heres a bit of his compelling testimony that day which weve put together with video some of the scenes he describes. >> ive always taken my oath seriously. ast on january 6th, 2021, i fulfilled my oath once more. the verbal assaults and disrespect we endured from the rioters were bad enough. my fellow officers and i were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye...