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In Aberdeen, Md., the police chief’s son declared he had 'stormed the Capitol,' prompting the same kind of reckoning underway in communities across the country. There was fear, fury, lies, conspiracy theories and, before long, a threat of more violence.
A small town seethes after learning one of its own says he joined Capitol's mob John Woodrow Cox, Hannah Natanson and Julie Tate, The Washington Post Jan. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6A home along Paradise Road in Aberdeen flies an American flag above a flag for the U.S. Marine Corps and a Trump campaign flag.Photo by Kyle Grantham for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less 2of6A large Trump-Pence road sign sits outside Mary Lawson's house on Paradise Road.Photo by Kyle Grantham for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6John Richardson, president of the Harford C...
Word that the police chief's son had taken part in the demonstrations at The Capitol stirred citizens of Aberdeen.
Belonged to harlem, and it's association with the war. there's a great fear and the media, that cnn wasn't around at the time, but the "new york times," for example, acted as though mark rudd, who you saw in the earlier clip, was the only person there. black students were hanging out with the l.a. flags. that story has not been told until maybe the last couple of years. >> and you explained so fluidly there that there was a lot at stake not to protest. but really there was a lot at stake for you, as african-american students at colombia university, here at the pinnacle of higher education, and...
Drawing to a close despite our demonstrations. so students began to become more militant. >> at columbia university, students barricade themselves into university buildings. their leader is a 20-year-old ex-boy scout, mark rudd. >> i would say that we now have more support than any group about any political issue has ever held at any time. >> columbia became the symbol of students and revolt. >> activists like tom hayden went to columbia and said, let's have more columbias. there's nothing like feeling that you're fighting the power or somebody's listening to you, at least, to draw more people...