Like the Challenger disaster, the Oklahoma City bombing and the fall of the Twin Towers, Jan. 6 is a fixed point on this country's timeline.
: protesters swarming up the steps, climbing up walls, assailing the Capitol’s doors, breaking the first window. I heard her voice quaver just a bit when she described the lone security guard who stood between “protesters” and the front door, the door being forced open, the single police officer trying to keep them out. I watched the normally unflappable Woodruff shake her head in disbelief as the reporter described the mob flooding into the building.
“Stop calling them protesters,” I screamed, as if semantics were the problem, because I didn’t know what else to do.
from that day — but even with the broken images coming to us live, it was almost impossible to take in what was happening: the savage shiver of shoulders beating against riot shields, doors, human bodies; the animal howls of triumph when the doors were breached; the rabble streaming up and down stairways hunting members of Congress. “Our house,” they chanted, snapping pictures like every terrorist and coup instigator ever.Never-before-seen footage of the chaos during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.
As if the day’s horrors had not been captured by countless cameras, as if the people involved hadn’t gleefully shared what they had done on social media only to be shocked when reminded it was a crime. to downtown Los Angeles. I remember the thunder of their feet as they passed The Times building. I remember worrying because my teenage daughter was among the crowd. I had given her a laundry list of warning signs that she should leave the march: breaking glass, shoving, smoke, weapons, a crowd surge or even just an ominous shift in the mood.Annette Gordon-Reed, Ayad Akhtar, Héctor Tobar, Martha Minow, David Kaye and Jonathan Rauch discuss the Jan. 6 riot and what we do about it.
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