Jan 6 cop claims he had a 'near-death experience,' but the actual video footage will make your BLOOD BOIL

Investigations into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building are ongoing. The Department of Justice is unwavering in its commitment to investigate and prosecute those who need to be held accountable.

Will the DOJ exercise fairness and impartiality — as it has sworn to do — while it seeks truth?

It’s looking more and more like the answer to that question will be a definitive no.

Glenn Beck plays a clip of a CNN interview with U.S. Capitol police sergeant Aquilino Gonell as he gave a tearful account of his experience on January 6, 2022.

“I got hurt,” he told the interviewer, wiping tears from his eyes. “I thought I was gonna’ lose my life.”

He then went into detail about how he was “covered in pepper spray” and how “[his] hands were bleeding.”

Another clip shows him giving his testimony at a televised hearing, saying, “I, too, was being crushed by the rioters. I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, ‘This is how I’m going to die.”’

Watching Gonell’s emotional accounts of that day, it’s hard not to immediately sympathize.

However, Glenn then invites journalist Julie Kelly to the show to discuss Gonell’s testimony and others like it.

What she reveals will make your blood boil.

“Officer Aquilino Gonell ... has been one of what I call ‘January 6 celebrity cops,’” she tells Glenn.

“He was one of four police officers/security guards who testified during the very first January 6 select committee televised hearing. The idea of that hearing was to make it sound like Trump supporters tried to kill police officers that day,” Kelly continues.

While Gonell told a horror story involving ghastly injuries to his head, shoulder, hands, and foot, some released footage tells a wildly different story.

“Footage that was obtained by Joe Hanneman at Epoch Times” reveals Gonell “walking around — no indication of any injury, no sign of pain” near the end of the day, after the building had already been evacuated.

In the footage, Gonell’s “hands are visible, there’s no bleeding, there’s no abrasions ... both shoulders are mobile,” and yet Gonell “has been a key figure in promoting the idea that police were almost killed on January 6,” Kelly says.

“He has been a government witness in trials of January 6 defendants,” she continues, “where he’s taken the stand under oath and talked about his injuries ... that were inflicted by Trump supporters — and he specifically says Trump supporters.”

Gonell’s testimony “has helped judges impose very long, harsh sentences against January 6 defendants,” Kelly adds.

What’s perhaps most upsetting, however, is that “the Department of Justice and Capitol police ... have designated all of this footage as highly sensitive government material; all of it has been under strict protective orders in court” and has only been released when it can be used to incriminate defendants.

“That seems like a miscarriage of justice,” says Glenn, clearly blown away at what he’s hearing.

To listen to their full conversation, watch the clip below.

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