US Capitol riots: Grim, violent future for America, experts warn
9 Jan, 2021 08:19 PM
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New video shows the moments leading up to the fatal Capitol shooting that killed 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt. Video / Joyce Sohyun Lee / The Washington Post
New video shows the moments leading up to the fatal Capitol shooting that killed 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt. Video / Joyce Sohyun Lee / The Washington Post
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By: Jamie Seidel
The prediction is grim: The best-case scenario right now is we have some long-gun, terrible shootings, or a couple of small bombings … preceding or after an inauguration that half the country says is a theft.
A ‘Capitol’ breach of democracy. What follows next?
07 Jan 2021 Pro-Trump supporters storm the US Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Agence France-Presse
Andrew Feinberg,
The Independent
It took 159 years, but the Confederate battle flag finally flew in the United States Capitol on Wednesday night as a mob of men and women marching behind it smashed through windows, assaulted police officers, and terrorised members of Congress in hopes of preventing the House and Senate from certifying Joe Biden’s election as the 46th President of the United States.
Not since Major General Robert Ross led the British Army’s burning of what was then known as Washington City has a force hostile to the very idea of American democracy darkened the corridors of the country’s legislature. Yet this invasion came not at the hands of foreign soldiers sworn to obey George III, but of Americans bent on sedition, on the orders