Officers and widows plan to attend hearing
Several police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and widows of law enforcement members who died in the aftermath will be present at the hearing.
Among them are Erin Smith, the widow of Metropolitan Police Department officer Jeffrey Smith; Serena Liebengood, the widow of Capitol Police officer Howie Liebengood; Sandra Garza, partner of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick; Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn; Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell; and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges.
Dunn told ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott the hearing will be "triggering."
"I think about Jan. 6 daily and tonight we are going to find out stuff we didn't know," he said.
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Garza told Scott she's preparing to painfully "relive the nightmare of the day." Her longtime partner, Officer Sicknick, suffered two strokes and died of natural causes one day after engaging with rioters.
"Everybody should watch the hearings because they need the truth of what happened that day," Garza said. "These are the facts -- it's important for them not to only hear the witnesses but see it again." She added, "There has to be some accountability, people are dead because of what happened."