D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges was pinned against a doorway in the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 by a large mob of President Trump’s supporters.

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A Connecticut man has been arrested and charged for allegedly violently pinning a D.C. police officer against a doorway as a mob of then-President Trump’s supporters tried to push their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Patrick Edward McCaughey III is charged with assaulting or resisting government officers, civil disorder, violent entry, and being in a restricted area of the Capitol. According to prosecutors, McCaughey held D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges against a doorway in a narrow hallway at a western entrance as police fought to keep rioters from entering the building. Hodges was among the hundreds of D.C. police officers who responded to the Capitol after rioters breached it.

“Officer Hodges was pinned between the clear police riot shield being held by McCaughey and the lower west terrace door,”prosecutors in a court filing. “Officer Hodges appeared to be loudly crying out in pain. As Officer Hodges was being pinned to the door by McCaughey, a separate rioter was violently ripping off Officer Hodges’ gas mask exposing Officer Hodges’ bloodied mouth. McCaughey was using the riot shield to push against Officer Hodges, numerous other rioters behind and around McCaughey appeared to add to the weight against Officer Hodges.”

D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges is a beat cop in the Fourth District. Martin Austermuhle / WAMU/DCist

According to prosecutors, McCaughey told Hodges “don’t try and use that stick on me boy,” referring to a police baton, and said he should “[t]alk to your buddies and go home.” A few minutes later, McCaughey allegedly motioned to other officers to help Hodges, who could be seen on video screaming in pain. “Let this guy through, he’s hurt, he’s hurt, let him back,” he said. McCaughey was later caught on a body-worn camera hitting another police officer with a police shield.

In an interview with DCist, Hodges, a six-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department who works in the Fourth District, recalled being stuck in what police officials have taken to calling the “hallway of hell.”

“I had my arms pinned at that point, I wasn’t able to defend myself. You see someone in the video who rips my gas mask off, he’s also able to rip away my baton and beat me with it,” he said. “At that point I was sucking in [tear] gas, so I was pretty disabled.”

Hodges, 32, did not suffer any broken bones or internal bleeding, but he admitted to “walking like a 90-year-old man for a week.” He has since returned to duty.

Prosecutors say they identified McCaughey from the significant amount of video that was produced that day. They were also helped by an unidentified childhood friend who received pictures and video that McCaughey sent around to his friends after the incident. There was no information yet available on any attorney for McCaughey, nor when he would first appear in court.

More than 117 people have been charged so far in connection with the incidents at the Capitol. Federal prosecutors continue looking for more suspects in the assaults on police officers during the rampage. Earlier this week, they arrested and charged Vitali GossJankowski, a student at Gallaudet University, for allegedly trying to push his way into the Capitol while holding a Taser; prosecutors believe it may be the same Taser that was later used to assault D.C. Police Officer Mike Fanone.