Babbit was shot in the chest during the attempted takeover of the Capitol building,
NBC News reported. She was shot inside the building. However, it is not confirmed by who or the full scale of the circumstances that resulted in the fatal gunfire.
According to the news outlet, multiple people on-site, including a police officer, suffered injuries and were taken to the local hospital.
U.S. Capitol Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Metropolitan Police Department will lead the investigation into Babbit’s death. Washington, D.C. Mayor
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Annie Kuster was on the balcony of the House when the Capitol building was breached Wednesday. Everything afterward happened quickly.
The New Hampshire Democratic congresswoman watched as security services whisked away House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn down below. She looked on as Capitol Hill police began locking down the House chambers, door by door.
Then a police officer handed her a gas mask.
“We heard that the crowd of protesters was in the Rotunda,” she said in an interview with the
Monitor Wednesday evening, speaking of the atrium just outside the House and Senate chambers. “Which was not far from where we were.”
Reverend Raphael Warnock (Image: Screenshot)
Rev. Raphael Warnock, who won his Senate runoff against Kelly Loeffler, is yet another graduate of a historically Black college and university (HBCU) to have a hand in politics this year.
Warnock, a Morehouse College graduate, has credited the university for helping him grow and shaping who he is today.
Good morning Georgia!
I’m Raphael Warnock. I grew up in public housing in Savannah and went to college at @Morehouse where I was the first in my family to graduate college.
And I’m running to be Georgia’s next U.S. Senator. pic.twitter.com/82B3wYQGTB
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn speaks to the Journal-isms Rountable.
“I’ve been toying around with an idea now for two or three decades, ever since I’ve been in the Congress,” Clyburn said during Richard Prince’s Journal-isms Roundtable Jan. 3. “I’ve been trying to build up enough nerve to introduce a national hymn.
“I instructed my staff two weeks ago to prepare legislation for me to apply this week to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ our national hymn. We have a national anthem, we don’t have a national hymn. I would love to see that become our national hymn, and being sung at events, not as the Negro National Anthem, but as the United States of America’s national hymn.