Some who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 assaulted law enforcement officers, used denigrating language, and made specific threats against then-Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), members of Congress heard Tuesday from some of the officers. “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 who apparently saw us, law enforcement—officers dedicated to ironically protecting them as U.S. citizens—as an impediment to their attempt to insurrection,” U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell told a congressional hearing in Washington. Daniel Hodges, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, recounted being told, “you will die on your knees.” He was kicked in the chest and struck with something heavy in the head while he and fellow officers clashed with the crowd outside the Capitol. Gonell, Hodges, …