Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol, with one woman killed, three more dead and tear gas fired
Rebecca Tan, Peter Jamison, Meagan Flynn and John Woodrow Cox, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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1of11Supporters of President Trump stand outside the east side of the Capitol.Washington Post photo by Marissa J. LangShow MoreShow Less
2of11Rachel Ethridge and Mike Wyatt, who live in Missouri, stand near the Washington Monument on Wednesday.Washington Post photo by Emily DaviesShow MoreShow Less
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4of11Supporters of President Donald Trump gather near the Washington Monument on Wednesday.Washington Post photo by Matt McClainShow MoreShow Less
For some in Georgia, an answer to their prayers
Clyde McGrady, The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2021
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock, the projected winner of a Senate runoff election in Georgia, will be the first Black senator in the state s history. Warnock is photographed speaking to canvassers at Elizabeth Porter Park in Marietta, Ga. on Jan. 5, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Kevin D. Liles
In early September 1868, two months after Georgia s readmission to the Union, its state legislature expelled almost 30 of its newly elected Black members instead of seating them. Not long afterward, one of the banished members, a man named Philip Joiner, led several hundred Black people and a few White people on a 25-mile march from Albany to Camilla for a political rally. Along the way hundreds of armed White people, led by a local sheriff, opened fire on the parade, killing about a dozen marchers. Joiner and others fled into the woods.
Print article WASHINGTON - When Chanelle Helm helped organized protests after the March 13 killing of Breonna Taylor, Louisville police responded with batons, flashbang grenades and tear gas. The 40-year-old Black Lives Matter activist still bears scars from rubber bullets fired at close range. So Helm was startled and frustrated Wednesday to see a White, pro-Trump mob storm the U.S. Capitol - breaking down barricades, smashing windows and striking police officers - without obvious consequence. “Our activists are still to this day met with hyper-police violence,” Helm said. “And today you see this full-on riot - literally a coup - with people toting guns, which the police knew was coming and they just let it happen. I don’t understand where the ‘law and order’ is. This is what white supremacy looks like.”