Speaking up about his experience defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has made Daniel Hodges a target.
But even as Donald Trump returns to the White House, vowing along the way to pardon many of the rioters who beat Hodges and his colleagues, the Metropolitan Police officer is not lying low. On Monday, he returned to the Capitol as a guest of Sen. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., to observe the certification of election results.
“They still make arrests. I still testify in court. It keeps getting harder and harder — I get more emotional in court, which is odd. … I don’t think a day has gone by where I don’t think about it,” Hodges said ahead of the fourth anniversary of the attack. (Hodges was speaking in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Department.)
