A Staten Island legislator who's a key backer of city police unions in Albany said shocking footage of a right-wing mob's confrontations with police officers at the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to stop the process that gave Joe Biden the presidency punctured President Trump's claims that his most-loyal followers staunchly supported cops.
"It was stunning," State Sen. Diane Savino said in a Feb. 11 phone interview of the videos shown in the U.S. Senate Chamber during the first two days of Mr. Trump's impeachment trial. "What we had already seen was stunning enough—the mob storming into the Capitol, the officer whose face was squeezed into the door—but the really scary one was to see the Capitol Police jammed into the hall trying to hold them off."
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