Speaking via text messages, Faulkner said he didn’t plan on storming the Capitol when he travelled to Washington D.C. He said he was “shot in the chest by police” and “shrapnel hit my face” and he grew angry that police used tear gas to stave off the invaders. He said he didn’t know what police shot him with.
“It seemed the cops were antagonizing us and letting them straight into the building in the front so I believe it was all set up for the Trump people,” he said. “I knew I shouldn’t have kicked in the window. I was upset and wasn’t thinking rationally.”
Looking back on it, he said he just got caught up in the moment, and added he wasn’t part of any violence against police officers.
“I don’t glorify what I did, nor am I proud of it,” he said.
On his Facebook, a photo depicts Faulkner wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat with a “white lives matter” graphic framing his head.
A true rugged individual willing to take personal responsibility
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Troy Faulkner, seen in khaki jacket, kicks in a enforced, shuttered window at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. during the insurrection Jan. 6.