U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D), was on the Senate floor Jan. 6, debating on the certification of the Arizona vote for the U.S. Presidential election when it was announced there was a security concern.
“Within a matter of minutes, we rushed off the Senate floor and to a private stairway, past windows where I saw a mob carrying baseball bats, pipes, Trump flags, Confederate flags,” Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal was among those who went “down the stairs, into a tunnel, and into a safe place.” when rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol building on Jan 6 during the certification of the electoral college votes. By the end of it all, at least five people, including a Capitol Police officer and a woman shot by police, died. As of Friday, USA Today reported various changes that will be made to inauguration festivities because of safety concerns, from U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden (D) not taking an Amtrak to Washington D.C., to many states beefing up security around their own cap