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Former FBI Agent Rick Smith tells ABC7 News, "there should have been better planning. It was allowed to get out of hand." "My husband was 30 feet away from the line of officers and was holding a sign that said, we are worthy of life and was not inciting any violence at all, and he was shot," she said, "That makes me angry. None of those men and women but mostly men, White men who have stormed the Capitol have been shot." Tiana Day organized a Black Lives Matter rally over the Golden Gate Bridge...

‘Protesters are in the building’: US Capitol under siege January 6 Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Bidens victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (Julio Cortez/AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — The crowd pushed past the police barricades, up the steps to the iron doors and in what se...

AP Photo/John Minchillo After the Capitol protest/riot occurred, I said to my colleagues the folks on the left will use it to go after President Donald Trump, Republicans and Trump supporters in general. They will use it to justify a crackdown on social media and other arenas. That’s already coming to pass and it only happened yesterday. They’re calling to ban anyone who went into the building from plane travel. After calls from flight attendants to ban insurrectionists from flights out of ...

As protesters stormed the US Capitol building, truck drivers took to the CDLLife App to share their differing opinions on the matter.

AP Photo/John Minchillo Liberal Media is using the actions of some of the people at the Capitol protest/riot to demonize all Trump supporters and indeed President Donald Trump himself. But we wanted to note some things that the media is naturally ignoring in the interests of pushing that narrative. First, we’ve already noted while they now condemn all the Capitol protesters, they were in favor of radical leftist actions that were similar or worse and didn’t care about their attacks on pol...

Two sources said that a woman was in critical condition from being shot in the chest on the Capitol ground, according to CNN. The cable news channel said it “could not provide further details on the circumstances of the shooting,” but it is unclear if they did not know the detail or if they were unauthorized to discuss it. They were described as “sources familiar with the matter.” Capitol police did not immediately respond to an email from Law&Crime. An attempt to call their spokespeopl...

In the summer of 2020, President Trump issued the Statues & Monuments Act, which would punish protesters who cause damage to federal buildings with 10 years in jail.

Report: Man photographed in Nancy Pelosi’s office from Northwest Arkansas Report: Man photographed in Nancy Pelosi’s office from Northwest Arkansas By Region 8 Newsdesk | January 6, 2021 at 6:42 PM CST - Updated January 6 at 11:11 PM WASHINGTON (KAIT/KNWA) - A man who was photographed Wednesday inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office as protests went on at the U.S. Capitol is from Northwest Arkansas, according to a report from content partner KNWA. The report said the man...

La. lawmakers condemn chaos at nation’s Capitol La. lawmakers condemn chaos at nation’s Capitol By Mykal Vincent and Lester Duhé | January 6, 2021 at 2:41 PM CST - Updated January 6 at 10:44 PM BATON ROUGE (WAFB) - Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La) tweeted a video following Wednesday’s chaos at the nation’s Capitol. “This is wrong. It is absolutely wrong. It is un-American,” Cassidy said. “Period.” Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed th...