UH Mānoa alum covers January 6 siege of Capitol Building | University of Hawaiʻi System News
January 6, 2021, Washington D.C. (photo courtesy: Kent Nishimura) When a mob of then President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumnus Kent Nishimura, a Los Angeles Times photojournalist, was in the middle of the chaos. Nishimuraʻs assignment was the electoral vote certification but he found himself at the East side entrance “making pictures,” as he phrases it, of protesters attacking Capitol Hill police. Then the unthinkable happened. “The officers pulled out and the doors opened and they (the protesters)...
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