The violence began again immediately, said Cole.Ĭole said when he read Wang's Facebook post about the incident, “My mouth just dropped and my heart was just like, Oh, man." "A couple of people came to their senses and were like, This is not right," said Cole, "and they stopped and allowed him to go back up." "I can’t imagine the fear and distraught he felt, not knowing if he was going make it out alive, at one point pleading for his life and telling the protestors he has children," she wrote.Ĭole said that at some point - he said he struggled to have a sense of time about the incident but that he thought it went for between 30 seconds to a minute - those in the crowd "took a pause" and seemed to realize the magnitude of assaulting an officer. In her Facebook post, Wang said her ex begged for his life and told those hitting him that he was a father. "Calling him a traitor, which is a big thing, and, ‘We supported you. “ beating him, pulling him around, yelling at him," said Cole, a hip-hop photographer who started shooting Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd and has photographed multiple pro-Trump events.
Right before he took the photograph, Cole had just moved to the right of a Capitol entrance on the west side of the building, where a line of police officers were trying to hold back rioters from entering, when he saw the officer get pulled away from the police line and attacked. Wang told BuzzFeed News her children's father is now "on the mend and recuperating." She removed her post from public view after this article was published. "All the while hearing the protestors saying, 'Kill him with his own gun!'" "He was dragged into the mob, his badge ripped off, beaten, tazed, and pepper sprayed," she wrote. Hsin-Yi Wang reposted Cole's photo on Facebook, identifying her ex-husband as the officer and adding more details about the terrifying assault (BuzzFeed News is not identifying the officer because he has not responded to requests for comment). The cop was one of at least three Metropolitan Police Department officers captured in viral videos and photos being assaulted outside the Capitol last Wednesday during the attempted coup, as law enforcement proved woefully underprepared for the riots despite days of public planning. "They were beating the shit out of him," said Cole.
They don’t show fear most of the time and this man was scared." "I’ve never seen a cop scared like that," Cole told BuzzFeed News. Cole who snapped a picture of the officer being pulled down the stairs by violent pro-Trump supporters on Wednesday, his mouth open in panic, his face full of fear. The shocking moment was captured by photographer Mel D. A DC Metropolitan Police officer dragged into the crowd by the pro-Trump mob during the insurrection on the US Capitol was beaten by rioters who threatened to shoot him with his own weapon, according to his ex-wife.
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