She says the response was shameful, disgraceful and inequitable. You can t tell me that there s not some systemic racism that we saw yesterday (Wednesday) in the disparities in how black lives matter protesters would have been pushed back and how these protesters because they re Donald Trump protesters, said Lee. And they were there by the orders of this President they were told to incite violence they were told to come to the Capitol and they were primarily white you can t tell me the response was equitable and it wasn t.
Representative Zoe Lofgren says she was also concerned by the security response.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Many Bay Area lawmakers were inside the U.S. Capital building when people stormed in on Wednesday. Some of them described what they saw and heard. Then they were pounding on the door so they told us to lie down in the marble floors which we did and then there was a shot that I heard, California District 14 Congresswoman Jackie Speier describing the moment when people stormed into the U.S. Capital building Wednesday. Speier says she quickly learned that there are gas masks under each seat of the house chamber. There was an announcement made that the Capitol had been breached and we should sit in our seats and wait, that we should get out the gas mask and I have one here to show you. It s in this packing like this and then when you open it up you can hear this thing taking off, said Speier.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Many Bay Area lawmakers were inside the U.S. Capital building when people stormed in on Wednesday. Some of them described what they saw and heard. Then they were pounding on the door so they told us to lie down in the marble floors which we did and then there was a shot that I heard, California District 14 Congresswoman Jackie Speier describing the moment when people stormed into the U.S. Capital building Wednesday. Speier says she quickly learned that there are gas masks under each seat of the house chamber. There was an announcement made that the Capitol had been breached and we should sit in our seats and wait, that we should get out the gas mask and I have one here to show you. It s in this packing like this and then when you open it up you can hear this thing taking off, said Speier.