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>> reporter: around 6:00 the riot had calmed enough that sergeant gonell could finally tell his wife he had survived. >> i started texting my wife and what i said to her, i'm okay. i'll see you whenever. >> reporter: congress resumed certifying the electoral college votes that night. sergeant gonell arrived back home around 3:00 a.m. january 7th but found little relief. >> when i came in she wanted to hug me and i told her no because i was -- i was covered in pepper spray, my hands were bleeding still and i even -- i couldn't

It's like five, ten minutes hug. i just cried. and he kept telling me it's going to be okay, i was like, no, i have to go back to work. i have to go back to work. >> reporter: for him the riot is hardly in the rear view. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: the failure of a bill to establish a commission to establish the origins of the insurrection left him devastated but gave him a reason to speak out. >> hurts me that the country that i love, that i came in, that i have sacrificed so much don't care about us. they don't. >> reporter: sergeant gonell came forward on the day the januar...

Them. and we weren't. so, they turned against us. it's very scary. because i -- i thought i was going to lose my life right there. >> reporter: some of the most horrific video shows sergeant gonell steps from daniel hodges caught in a doorway. >> i could hear my fellow officer screaming. the agony in some of them. all i could think was we can't let these people in. there's going to be a slaughter inside. >> sergeant gonell came forward, on his own. not to speak for the department. he said he couldn't stay silent, anymore, about what happened on january 6th. and here he is, live, this evening. ...

>> what do you -- what do you want to say to america? because there are a lot of people in america, who believe we should move on from january 6th. there should not be a commission. you see the -- you -- you see the reports. you see the -- the lawmakers on capitol hill. thinking the same thing. what do you want to say, sergeant? >> what i want them to know is that that could have been my family. and i saw myself the day i had decided to come forward with it. i have many and multiple incident or moments that i could have lost my life or taken other people's life because they continue to believe...

And there are things that i had not seen myself or don't remember, me, those things happening to me. but they are caught on camera. and hey, sergeant, is this you? it looks like you. it is you. >> every day since january 6 you have to either talk to law enforcement or relive this. >> most of the time, yes. >> so the reason i ask, i want people know about your injuries. your hand was sliced open. your knuckles were bleeding as you held the doors. your foot needed surgery. >> my shoulder as well. >> your shoulder as well. and some of the things that are up now. but as i heard from the other offi...