Pro-Trump mob breaks into US Capitol 02:55
Daniel Black is professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University and author of the novel The Coming and the forthcoming Don t Cry for Me (HarperCollins Press.) The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN (CNN)How in the world do scores of seditious rioters simply waltz into the United States Capitol, so casually that many of them record their invasion on their phones and take selfies with cops? How do they scale the walls and push through the doors and scatter the police and not get forcibly stopped by whatever means necessary? How does anyone breach the House speaker s office and relax in her chair as if he owned the place?