Reply To: House January 6th Commission

Republicans should also demand an investigation into how the 9/11 terrorists died.

Hodges, a Metropolitan Police officer who was among scores wounded by pro-Trump insurrectionists at the Capitol, acknowledged that defenders of the rioters and allies of the former president might object to the term “terrorists.” But the label was accurate, Hodges told select committee members as he read aloud the definition of domestic terrorism from federal law.

“I can see why someone would take issue with the title of terrorist. It’s gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary in the past few decades, and we’d like to believe that no, that couldn’t happen here. No domestic terrorism. No homegrown threats,” Hodges said.

“But I came prepared,” he continued, reading an excerpt of U.S. statute- U.S. Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 113B, Section 2331 – that defines “domestic terrorism” as “activities that involve acts dangerous to human life” that violate criminal law and “appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.” The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 aimed to disrupt the congressional certification of Donald Trump’s Electoral College loss to President Joe Biden.