Republican senators are being swarmed by Trump protesters on the Hill. Here’s an exasperated @SenToddYoung saying he won’t vote against certifying the election.
“I took oath under God... does that still matter in this country?”
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Rebecca Tan
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Rebecca Tan
@rebtanhs
Joined May 2014
- NEW: Using exclusive videos, eyewitness accounts and analyses from crowd experts, @washingtonpost reconstructed what happened inside Kanjuruhan stadium on Saturday night. The findings are clear: Police action led to deaths.
- Want to clarify something: The @WhiteHouse said protestors were given three verbal warnings before they released tear gas. I was standing at the metal barriers with rows of other protestors behind me and did not hear a single warning.
- Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the building.
00:00 - Please, please, please do not let your friends and family piece together an account of what happened today from posts or conspiracies on social media. Send them our story — it’s the joint work of dozens of reporters who were on the ground.
- Replying to @rebtanhs!!! Crowd of thousands outside the White House singing Lean On Me. This must be the closest we’ve come to a concert in months:
00:00 - BLM plaza, where federal agents deployed chemical gas on protestors earlier this year, has gone fuuuulll street party:
00:00 - Morning! Women’s March is getting underway in DC, and 7-year-old twins Harriet and Myles have attracted quite a crowd. “You can use social media all you want, but there’s something to be said about showing up,” said mother Justina Gilliam.
- The 8-foot chain link fence protecting the White House has become a sort of archive / exhibition of the D.C. protests with signs, memorials, flowers and art.
- Protesters are charging toward the Captiol steps. Some tried to scale the construction structures and have been tackled by police. They want to enter the building and are making attempts at intervals. Capitol police trying to hold them back.
- Scenes from DC right now. They’ve raised the confederate flag outside the Capitol.
- Replying to @rebtanhsFour human rights advocates told the Post that the question of police culpability should focus in large part on what’s captured here: The decision to fire tear gas directly into packed stands.
00:00 - D.C. guard commander & Iraq veteran on the clearing of Lafayette Park: “At no time did I feel threatened by the protesters or assess them to be violent … These demonstrators were engaged in the peaceful expression of their First Amendment rights." washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020…
- Replying to @rebtanhsI could make out that police were saying *something* over the megaphone but — as I wrote in my notebook — the words were inaudible. Hard to imagine that the hundreds of protestors at Lafayette, many of whom were chanting, heard the three warnings.
