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Degradation of democracy needs to end: Greenwich-area residents react to D.C. violence
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First Selectman Fred Camillo.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
Local residents watched in shock on Wednesday as a mob descended on the U.S. Capitol, first breaching the building and reaching the Senate floor and ultimately forcing lawmakers out of the building for their own safety.
As the event escalated in Washington, D.C., Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo, a Republican, issued a a scathing statement on the actions of the protesters.
“What is transpiring today in our nation’s Capitol is disgraceful and against everything good that this nation has stood for more than 244 years,” Camillo said in a statement released on Town of Greenwich letterhead.