{"id":9867,"date":"2023-01-29T19:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2023-01-29T19:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:22:30","slug":"there-wouldve-been-gunfire-officer-testifies-at-proud-boys-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There would\u2019ve been gunfire\u2019: Officer testifies at Proud Boys trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;The quick thinking of Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman may have prevented a shootout at the doors of the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, a top Capitol Police official said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspector Thomas Loyd, testifying in the trial of five members of the Proud Boys leadership charged with seditious conspiracy, recalled the outnumbered Goodman\u2019s effort to lure the first wave of rioters inside the Capitol to a position away from the doors of the Senate and toward a waiting line of Capitol Police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a famous video of the incident, Goodman lures the group of rioters \u2014 which included one of the Proud Boys defendants, Dominic Pezzola \u2014 up a staircase and away from the unguarded Senate doors. For a moment, one of the rioters, Douglas Jensen, considered veering away from Goodman and toward those doors. But he ultimately followed Goodman and ran into the line of police reinforcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf those doors had been breached,\u201d Loyd told jurors, \u201cmost likely there would\u2019ve been gunfire at that point.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/13\/there-wouldve-been-gunfire-officer-testifies-at-proud-boys-trial-00077907\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/13\/there-wouldve-been-gunfire-officer-testifies-at-proud-boys-trial-00077907<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The quick thinking of Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman may have prevented a shootout at the doors of the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, a top Capitol Police official said Friday.<br \/>\nInspector Thomas Loyd, testifying in the trial of five members of the Proud Boys leadership charged with seditious conspiracy, recalled the outnumbered Goodman\u2019s effort to lure the first wave of rioters inside the Capitol to a position away from the doors of the Senate and toward a waiting line of Capitol Police officers.<\/p>\n<p>In a famous video of the incident, Goodman lures the group of rioters \u2014 which included one of the Proud Boys defendants, Dominic Pezzola \u2014 up a staircase and away from the unguarded Senate doors. For a moment, one of the rioters, Douglas Jensen, considered veering away from Goodman and toward those doors. But he ultimately followed Goodman and ran into the line of police reinforcements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf those doors had been breached,\u201d Loyd told jurors, \u201cmost likely there would\u2019ve been gunfire at that point.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,1145,431,1135,1148,1134],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-capitol-police","tag-democracy","tag-insurrection","tag-proud-boys","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9868,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}