Capitol cop Caroline Edwards testifies on Jan 6th Riot it was hand to hand combat with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Militia

Capitol cop Caroline Edwards testifies on Jan 6th Riot it was hand to hand combat with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Militia (THUGS). The House select committee investigating the January 6 2001 Capitol attack is expected at its first hearing on Thursday evening to connect the far-right Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia thug groups in the same seditious conspiracy, according to two sources familiar with the matter. “I remember my breath catching in my throat, because what I saw was a war scene,” Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards said Thursday night June 9th when asked what still resonated with her about the Jan 6 riot.  

UPDATE June 28th, 2022... WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's government has declared that American far-right groups the Proud Boys and The Base are terrorist organizations. The two groups join 18 others including Islamic State that have been given an official terrorist designation, making it illegal in New Zealand to fund, recruit or participate in the groups, and obligating authorities to take action against them. In the U.S., the State Department only lists foreign groups as terrorist entities. But the Proud Boys were last year named a terrorist group in Canada, while The Base has previously been declared a terrorist group in Britain, Canada and Australia.

“It was something like what I’d seen out of movies. I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Caroline Edwards said of the doomed effort to defend the Capitol from an onrushing mob of Trump supporters (THUGS). “There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people’s blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw. Never in my wildest dreams that as a police officer I would find myself in the middle of a battle.” “It was something like what I’d seen out of movies. I couldn’t believe my eyes,” she said of the doomed effort to defend the Capitol from an onrushing mob of Trump supporters. “There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people’s blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw. Never in my wildest dreams that as a police officer I would find myself in the middle of a battle.”

Ryan Samsel an accused January 6 insurrectionist who’s facing charges for allegedly attacking officer Caroline Edwards during the Capitol riot on Jan 6th has a history of “choking and beating women to the point of loss of consciousness,” according to federal prosecutors. Ryan Samsel’s record of violent assault and domestic violence, dating back to 2006, was brought to light in court documents filed earlier this week as part of the government’s argument for why he should remain in jail pending the outcome of the trial. Ryan Samsel has been convicted on charges linked to attacking his pregnant girlfriend. Prosecutors said he smashed a hot pizza in her face, beat her up, threw her into a canal, and held her head under water. She escaped from him and ran barefoot through the street until she saw a parked police vehicle and “desperately tried to open the door” until the officer saw her and unlocked it so she could get in. Years later, another woman said that Samsel had choked her to the point of unconsciousness on several occasions, raped her, and broken into her house multiple times to attack her. She obtained a restraining order against him, but said he had violated it multiple times. Ryan Stephen Samsel, 38, from Bristol, Pennsylvania, was seen in video footage from January 6 wearing a red MAGA hat and standing on the front lines of rioters as they pushed their way past rows of Capitol police. Prosecutors say that he shoved female Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, causing her to bash her head into the ground, leaving her “semiconscious.” Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards later blacked out, and was treated for a concussion at a hospital.

Ryan Stephen Samsel, 38, of Bristol PA, DOB 1983, was charged in February 2021 with several crimes, including assaulting a federal officer Caroline Edwards on Jan 6th, 2021, obstructing law enforcement, and obstrucding a legal proceeding, after he was captured in videos and photos knocking over several officers as he attempted to storm the Capitol. Ryan Samsel, 38, of Bristol PA had been living with an Aunt and Uncle, he has been held at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center (FDC) since Jan 6 2021. Defendant Samsel remains held without bond. Among the officers he assaulted was a female cop, who fell and hit her head on “the stairs behind her, resulting in a loss of consciousness,” according to a criminal complaint. A 2021 filing opposing his latest request to be released from jail pending trial alleges that the Capitol riot was hardly Samsel’s first instance of violence. Prosecutors say that since 2006 there’s been “a pattern of Samsel choking and beating women to the point of loss of consciousness, of many hospital visits for many victims, of chipped and missing teeth, and of Samsel even breaking into one victim’s home multiple times to assault her.” 

Ryan Stephen Samsel, DOB 1983, has been convicted of terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, and disorderly conduct in the past. Another woman came forward to police in 2019 with a similar story, alleging “Samsel raped her multiple times and that she had often been scared he would kill her.” “There is an outstanding warrant for Samsel’s arrest based on this conduct in New Jersey. Samsel was not only wanted on that warrant at the time of the offense conduct in this case, but he was also still on parole for the 2011 conviction described above."

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