Pro-Trump protesters remain out after Washington DC curfew
Dozens of pro-Trump protesters remain on the streets of the nation’s capital in defiance of the curfew imposed after rioters stormed the Capitol.
People shelter in the U.S. House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.
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The mostly maskless crowd was forcibly removed from the Capitol on Wednesday after breaking into the building and halting the constitutional process of voting to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. They were pushed out of the immediate area and moved down the hill, where they taunted law enforcement and moved barricades.
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Jim Newell, Slate’s senior political reporter, was inside the Capitol when the building was breached by pro-Trump rioters on Wednesday. His day started in the press gallery, watching Republicans attempt to object to the Electoral College tallies during a joint session of Congress. When I reached him Wednesday evening, he was hunkered down in a room in an undisclosed location on Capitol grounds, packed in with a bunch of other journalists. On Thursday’s episode of What Next, I talked to Jim about what it was like inside the Capitol siege and what he thinks could and should happen next. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
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"Today was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol," Vice President Mike Pence, the president of the Senate, said as he resumed the session.