Lawmakers introduce bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to hero officer
Lawmakers introduce bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to hero officer
The officer, Eugene Goodman, drew praise for his quick action during last week's deadly riots at the Capitol.
Randi Richardson is a news associate at NBC News.
Jan. 14, 2021, 3:48 PM EST
A group of bipartisan House members introduced legislation on Thursday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to a Capitol police officer who deterred a mob away from the Senate chamber during last week's deadly riots.
Reps. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., credited officer Eugene Goodman for "his bravery and quick thinking during last week’s insurrection."
Goodman drew praise from many as a video of him purposefully baiting a mob to chase him, in the opposite direction of the Senate chamber doors, beyond which lawmakers were still hiding, went viral on social media. Five people were killed in the riots, including another police officer.
“He’s a hero!" Crist said. “The United States Capitol was under attack by armed, violent extremists, and Officer Eugene Goodman was the only thing standing between the mob and the United States Senate. I shudder to think what might have happened had it not been for Officer Goodman’s fast thinking and commitment to his duty and his country."
Goodman, an Army veteran, served in Iraq before joining the police force.
The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award Congress can bestow. Past recipients include Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela.
This gets no daps?
I guarantee if it was a "pawg" this post would've been at 30+
Dap it n stfu negroeWow,a black man is being honored for defending the white mans building and bunch of racist cacs from other racist cacs?
Nah he's just as wrong as you. Y'all give whites too much power. If they stayed on "code" it wouldn't be no civil war or even the different factions of whites beefing with each other.He is right though, white people stay on code almost as well as the chinese
Any c00ns arrested for the Capitol seize?
That's not fair
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-new...of-deadly-d-c-riot-to-investigators-arrested/
I wouldn't call this dude a c00n, he was documenting their activity but he messed up when he went into the building
Any c00ns arrested for the Capitol seize?
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-new...of-deadly-d-c-riot-to-investigators-arrested/
I wouldn't call this dude a c00n, he was documenting their activity but he messed up when he went into the building
That's not fair
The United States obtained a video of SULLIVAN, posted on YouTube, in which, while attending a protest in Washington, D.C., SULLIVAN can be seen telling a crowd, over a microphone, “we about to burn this shyt down,” “we got to rip Trump out of office . . . fukking pull him out of that shyt . . . we ain’t waiting until the next election . . . we about to go get that motherfukker.” SULLIVAN then can be seen leading the crowd in a chant of, “it’s time for a revolution.”1
After the crowd broke through the last barricade, and as SULLIVAN and the others approach the Capitol Building, SULLIVAN can be heard in the video saying at various points: “There are so many people. Let’s go. This shyt is ours! fukk yeah,” “We accomplished this shyt. We did this together. fukk yeah! We are all a part of this history,” and “Let’s burn this shyt down.”
Later, SULLIVAN’s video includes footage of individuals climbing a wall to reach a plaza just outside the Capitol Building entrance, as seen in the screenshot below. As individuals are climbing the wall, SULLIVAN can be heard saying, “You guys are fukking savage. Let’s go!”
At one point, SULLIVAN can be heard telling one of the individuals climbing the wall to give SULLIVAN his hand as individuals in the crowd are calling to help people up the wall.
The video records SULLIVAN’s entrance into the U.S. Capitol building through a broken window.
SULLIVAN, once inside the Capitol Building, roamed the building with other individuals who unlawfully entered. During one of his interactions with others, SULLIVAN can be heard in the video saying, “We gotta get this shyt burned.” At other times as he is walking through the Capitol, SULLIVAN can be heard saying, among other things, “it’s our house motherfukkers” and “we are getting this shyt.”
In addition, several times during the video, SULLIVAN encounters law enforcement officers who are trying to prevent further advancement through the building by those who entered unlawfully. In at least two encounters, SULLIVAN can be heard on the video arguing with the officers, telling them to stand down so that they do not get hurt. Among other things, SULLIVAN can be heard telling officers, “you are putting yourself in harm’s way,” “the people have spoken,” and “there are too many people, you gotta stand down, the people out there that tried to do that shyt, they got hurt, I saw it, I’m caring about you.”
At one point in the video, SULLIVAN enters an office within the U.S. Capitol, as seen in the screenshot below. Once inside the office, SULLIVAN approaches a window, also seen in the screenshot below, and states, “We did this shyt. We took this shyt.”
While at the window, a knocking noise is heard off-screen. The camera then pans to show more of the window and a broken pane can be seen that was not broken on SULLIVAN’s approach to the window:
SULLIVAN can then be heard saying, “I broke it. My bad, my apologies. Well they already broke a window, so, you know, I didn’t know I hit it that hard. No one 13 got that on camera.” SULLIVAN then exits the office.
He's a Missouri State Rep. who skipped his own swearing-in to attend the fukking riot.
Missouri lawmaker skips his own swearing-in to attend Trump rally in Washington