World Reacts to Mob at US Capitol
January 07, 2021
Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results.
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Leaders around the world expressed shock and concern as a pro-Trump mob attacked and occupied the U.S. Capitol Building, where Congress meets.
The attack took place as lawmakers were counting electoral votes to make President-elect Joe Biden’s election win official. The event, which takes place every four years on January 6, is the final step in confirming the winner of a presidential election.
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Congress staffers hold up their hands while Capitol Police Swat teams check everyone in the room as they secure the floor of Trump suporters in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
WASHINGTON (AP) “Where are they?” a Trump supporter demanded in a crowd of dozens roaming the halls of the US Capitol, bearing Trump flags and pounding on doors.
They lawmakers, staff members and more were hiding under tables, hunkered in lockdowns, saying prayers, and seeing the fruits of the country’s divisions up close and violent.
Guns were drawn. A woman was shot and killed. A Trump flag hung on the Capitol. The graceful Rotunda reeked of tear gas. Glass shattered.
By Adam Jeffery, CNBC •
Updated on January 7, 2021 at 4:19 pm
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Supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as Congress convened to certify the Electoral College votes, which are expected to confirm Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
Protesters clashed with police and U.S. Senate proceedings were halted with lawmakers being escorted from the chamber. Protestors freely roamed through the Capitol complex, including the Senate chamber, where one man stood on the president of the Senate’s chair and shouted, “Trump won that election!” Vice President Mike Pence, who had been presiding over the count of Electoral College votes, was ushered out of the Senate as the U.S. Capitol Complex went into lockdown as Trump supporters began breaching the complex.
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Glimpses of unimaginable scenes of violence at the US Capitol, the citadel of America s democracy, that was the result of the US president and his camp’s last-ditch act of desperation to avoid an inevitable political eviction
Anarchy in the USA, Democracy under siege – these were some of the headlines used to describe the extraordinary scenes of violence that took place in the capital of the United States, Washington DC, on January 6.
Agitated mob of rioters climbing up walls of the US Capitol building and storming past its majestic marble columns, police officer brandishing guns to protect the House chamber, tear gas deployed in the Rotunda, lawmakers ducking for safety, extremists standing at the US vice president s spot on the Senate dais and sitting at the desk of the speaker of the House. TOI brings to you some horrifying images of this chaos that was viewed across the world when a mob, egged on by sitting president Donald Trump, broke into the US Capitol to
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol s Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
JTA AIPAC hardly ever pronounces on any issue that does not relate to Israel. It’s also loath to criticize a sitting president.
But the preeminent pro-Israel lobby did both on Wednesday after rioters supporting US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol to stop the count of electoral votes that would formalize Joe Biden’s win.
“We share the anger of our fellow Americans over the attack at the Capitol and condemn the assault on our democratic values and process,” AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said in a statement posted to Twitter Wednesday evening. “This violence, and President Trump’s incitement of it, is outrageous and must end.”