Two oldsters traveled from upstate New York to the U.S. Capitol at the anniversary of the Jan. 6 revolt with one objective in thoughts ― to hug their Capitol Police officer son.
“I desperately sought after to be right here to offer him a hug a 12 months in the past and couldn’t, so we got here down nowadays to offer him a hug,” the officer’s mom, known as Kathee, instructed CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan on Thursday.
Kathee mentioned she first discovered the chance to her son from the violent mob of Donald Trump supporters “very early” that morning. “I began texting him pronouncing, ’Watch out nowadays, watch out.′ He confident me he would watch out.”
“Because the day stepped forward, we knew it was once getting a lot worse and we didn’t listen from him for hours and hours,” she persevered.
Their son, who she known as Josh, wasn’t in a position to name his oldsters till round 11 p.m., she mentioned.
“The primary phrases out of his mouth have been, ‘I’m OK, however I truly idea I used to be going to die. I assumed they have been going to kill me,’” Kathee remembered.