{"id":10496,"date":"2022-06-10T01:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/watch-capitol-police-officer-caroline-edwards-gives-opening-statement-in-jan-6-committee-hearing\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T01:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:46:59","slug":"watch-capitol-police-officer-caroline-edwards-gives-opening-statement-in-jan-6-committee-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=10496","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards gives opening statement in Jan. 6 committee hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/STnqrC5zufA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards said in her opening statement June 9 before the House Jan. 6 committee that  on the day of the attack and in the days that followed, she was called a number of names, including \u201cNancy Pelosi\u2019s dog,\u201d \u201cincompetent,\u201d \u201chero,\u201d and \u201cvillain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn actuality, I was none of those things. I was an American, standing face-to-face with other Americans, asking myself many, many times, how we had gotten here,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled her grandfather, a marine who fought in the Korean War, and &#8220;would like to think that he would be proud of me, proud of his granddaughter that stood her ground that day and continued fighting, even though she was wounded, like he did, many years ago,\u201d Edwards said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am my grandfather\u2019s granddaughter, proud to serve my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hearing June 9 was the first of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee in the coming weeks. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was the first witness to testify in a public hearing, along with filmmaker Nick Quested, who documented much of the violence that day.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing June 9 was the first of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee in the coming weeks. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards said in her opening statement June 9 before the House Jan. 6 committee that on the day of the attack and in the days that followed, she was called a number of names, including \u201cNancy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[9070,7407,251,63,15639,6408,14731,14734,15643,242,534,3407,7718,7719,6503,15448,1637,6409,6406,6405,15640,7839,15644,4821,38,5984,5219,9295,14889,15641,15642,1046,10514],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-9070","tag-7407","tag-biden","tag-breaking-news","tag-brian-sicknick","tag-capitol-insurrection","tag-capitol-police","tag-capitol-riot","tag-day-1","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-election-fraud","tag-election-insecurity","tag-hearing","tag-hearings","tag-house","tag-insurrection","tag-jan-6","tag-january-6","tag-january-6-riot","tag-january-6th","tag-june-9","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-newshour","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-pence","tag-proud-boys","tag-right-wing-violence","tag-select-committee","tag-trump","tag-trump-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}