Protesters backing President Donald Trump massed outside statehouses from Georgia to New Mexico on Wednesday, leading some officials to evacuate while cheers rang out at several demonstrations as a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol. Hundreds of people gathered in state capitals nationwide to oppose President-elect Joe Biden s win, waving signs saying Stop the steal and Four more years. Most of them didn t wear masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, and some carried guns in places like Oklahoma, Georgia, Arizona and Washington state. There were some scuffles with counterprotesters in states like Ohio and California, and a newspaper photographer was pepper-sprayed by a protester in Utah, but most demonstrations were peaceful some of them quite small and only a few arrests were reported.
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News that a mob had breached the U.S. Capitol set off cheers at pro-Trump protests in Minnesota, Nevada and Arizona, where armed rioters marched at the Capitol in Phoenix and several men displayed a guillotine.