2021 Notebook: On Jan. 6, chaos inside the Capitol and out
Associated PressTHE BACKGROUND: On Jan, 6 as Congress was meeting to certify the victory of Joe Biden, hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters who claimed the election had been stolen violently pushed past police, broke through windows and doors and entered the Capitol, forcing legislators to interrupt their work and flee. At one point I told my editor, “I’m going to go outside and try to look out a window and see what’s going on.” And a gallery staffer and I went and looked out a front window of the Capitol. It was kind of like one of those moments in a movie where it’s just like, “Oh my gosh,” because we looked outside and there were just so many people. And he said, “there has been a breach and tear gas was dispersed in the Capitol Rotunda.” He said to members, “you need to get your gas masks out from underneath your chairs,” and I don’t think many members even knew there were gas masks under their chairs. ___ For a full overview of the events that shaped 2021, “A Year That Changed Us: 12 Months in 150 Photos,” a collection of AP photos and journalists’ recollections, is available now: https://www.ap.org/books/a-year-that-changed-us
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2021 Notebook: On Jan. 6, chaos inside the Capitol and out
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