It only took three days in Congress for Troy Nehls to make national headlines — though probably not in the way he had hoped to. Nehls, the former Fort Bend County sheriff, was on the floor of the House of Representatives on January 6 awaiting a vote to certify Joe Biden’s election as president when a group of rioters incited by President Trump began violently banging and kicking at a door nearby. A decorated Army veteran who served combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Nehls removed his jacket, broke off a long piece of furniture and stood directly at a chamber window as rioters raged from the other side. Capitol police officers drew guns and trained them at the door as Nehls, who no longer carried a service revolver as he did while sheriff, attempted to reason with the mob.
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