audacity to tell me it was nothing personal. that they would go through me, through us, police officers to achieve their goal as they were breaking metal barriers to use as a weapon against us. other used more menacing language. if you shoot us, we all have weapons. we will shoot back. or we'll get our guns, we outnumber you, they say. join us. i heard specific threats to the lives of speaker nancy pelosi and then also vice president mike pence. but the physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating. my fellow officers and i were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye-damaging lasers by a violent mob apparently who