Nearly a year later, the emigrant from the Dominican Republic still can’t raise his left arm due to injuries he sustained during the attack, and the psychological wounds have also not healed for him or his family.

“They see me cry. They cry with me. They see me in pain. And they also cry because they can’t do anything for me other than try to make me feel a little bit better,” Gonell told NPR this week. “This whole year has been horrific.”

Gonell returned to work 10 months after the insurrection –- in an administrative position because of his hurt shoulder. He’s in therapy for his mental health, and as the one year anniversary of the riot approaches, he says what’s on his mind is “anxiety”.

“A lot of the officers have in mind the possibility of this being a recurring annual or every four year thing, which is why officers like myself are being outspoken about it, because we don’t want to go through this again,” Gonell said.