Jan. 6, 2021, was a terrible day for our democracy. I was at the U.S. Capitol complex, and it was not simply a “protest,” as some revisionists try to claim. In an attempt to block the certification of a free and fair election, hundreds of rioters attacked police, injuring more than 100 officers. Five people lost their lives that day, and in the days that followed, four officers who responded to the attack took their own lives.