Locals react to siege at Capitol, Georgia election
Greenfield resident Daryl Jett blames President Donald Trump for encouraging demonstrators to bring their beef with the election results to the Capitol. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Greenfield resident Joan Bates also thought President Trump instigated his supporters Wednesday in advance of the riot and breach of the U.S. Capitol. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Greenfield resident Chris Hinckley says of the protesters who breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday: “I don’t understand what their point was. I don’t understand what they expected to accomplish.” STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Greenfield resident Chris Boucher, accompanied by his daughter Rosie, said if the rioting demonstrators had been black, they wouldn’t have gotten close to the Capitol. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Congress has confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner, hours after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The Capitol is a short walk from where Trump in a speech railed against the election just before the riot began, calling the vote an 'egregious assault on our democracy' and urging his supporters to 'walk down to the Capitol' in a 'Save America March'
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07 Jan 2021 / 15:20 H.
By Joseph Tanfani, John Shiffman, Brad Heath and Mark Hosenball
Jan 6 (Reuters) - The bloody chaos inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what law enforcement officials called a catastrophic failure to prepare.
The siege of the Capitol, home to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, represents one of the gravest security lapses in recent U.S. history, current and former law enforcement officials said, turning one of the most recognizable symbols of American power into a locus of political violence.