Police officers recount horrors from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

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Editor’s note: Paragraph 13 contains offensive language and terms of racial abuse

Four police officers who faced attacks and racial slurs as they defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 from a riot by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters were the first on Tuesday to testify before a U.S. House of Representatives investigatory committee.