BERKELEY - When Elijah Barnes went to Pennsylvania Avenue in June to see the White House, there was a protest going on. George Floyd had just been killed at the hands of police in Minnesota. He remembers police officers deploying stun guns and seeing their fists connect with the faces of protesters.
Flash forward to Wednesday night. When the 22-year-old Princeton University student-athlete arrived home in Berkeley from a basketball workout around 6:30 p.m., he learned of the siege at the Capitol, where loyalists of President Donald Trump breached doors and fences, stormed the hallways, occupied offices and destroyed property.