U.S. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Greenwich) speaks Tuesday at a Norwalk vigil organized by Democrats, while riding a train back to Washington D.C.
NORWALK, Conn. Messages of sadness, anger, frustration, and some small messages of hope were shared at a “DTC Vigil for Truth, Justice, and Unity” on Tuesday night.
“We thought that it was important to have something,” said Eloisa Melendez, chair of the Norwalk Democratic Town Committee. “Under different circumstances, we would all be together, figuring out a way to make sense of what happened last week, of what’s apparently to come in the next few days. And we just wanted to get this started – this conversation started.”
Norwalk leaders host vigil in response to Capitol protest, support impeachment
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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NORWALK Hours before Congress decided to proceed with the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Norwalk community leaders held a virtual vigil to discuss the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol last week and how the city can move forward.
Updated, 6:10 p.m.: Comment from Doug Hempstead; 1 p.m.: Comments from Lucy Dathan and Fred Wilms.
NORWALK, Conn. As rioters incited by President Donald Trump stormed the nation’s capitol Wednesday, Norwalk Democratic leader Eloisa Melendez thought the “crazy” events “terrifying but unfortunately not shocking because they told us they would do this,” she said.
Late Wednesday, her Republican counterpart, Carl Dickens, said, “I looked on with terrific sadness and a tear in my eyes today. I literally got choked up. Because that’s not us, that’s not America. That’s not the Republican Party. That’s not what we’re about.”