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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.

It's 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 it's unbelievable the lack of support and to acknowledge what happened. >> 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 hea...

What happened, continue to downplay, even though some of them themselves were running for their lives or were scared that day. and it's 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, it's almost the same for me. i still got to go to physical therapy twice a week for about two hours, sometimes two hours and aet half, because i'm recovering still from my foot and my shoulder. that still hasn'...

Gonell. he told lawmakers that january 6th was scarier than any day of his deployment to iraq. here's a bit of his compelling testimony that day which we've put together with video some of the scenes he describes. >> i've 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-damaging lasers by a violent mob. i was particularly shocked at the scene of the insurrectionist...