I started thinking about how I really wasn’t shielded behind this chair. Many politicians, members of the press and international leaders reacted with horror and incredulity to images from the Capitol. They attacked democracy. I ran to the third floor, opened the first door I saw and hid in a hallway. Trump's account is currently locked by Twitter. —Erin Schaff, staff photographer. Protesters backing US President Donald Trump breached the US Capitol on Wednesday, forcing police to draw weapons amid chaotic scenes and causing a delay in the constitutional process to affirm Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. FILE photo - Dennis Swanson - Studio 101 West Photography/iStock By Alexander Mallin and Luke Barr, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- A Pennsylvania man charged with assaulting officers at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection says he was brutally beaten by two guards at the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility late last month, according to his lawyer. Now we’re seeing the consequences, whipped up into a violent crescendo.”. Four people died, a woman who was shot and three other people who suffered “medical emergencies” related to the breach, Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said. With the two Democratic victories, the Senate will have a 50-50 seat split between the parties. The floor was empty, except for staff aides yelling at everyone in the gallery to get out. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A spokesperson for the governor4s office says there was no indication of threats at the statehouse. Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the US Capitol Building while members were debating a bill concerning migrant Mexican workers. “Senate being locked down,” I texted my editor. Seven people said to be affiliated with the group, many who identified as Marxists or communists, were arrested beginning in 1985 for the Capitol Building bomb attack as well as a Brinks truck robbery and bombings at military installations. It blew out a wall, damaged five paintings and blew doors off hinges outside the office of Senate majority leader Robert Byrd, AP reported then. I dashed to grab my laptop and plunged with a handful of reporters down three floors, where a lone officer held back a pair of doors leading to the Capitol Visitor Center, built after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as an underground fortress of sorts. The Capitol is a short walk from where Trump in a speech railed against the election just before the riot began, calling the vote an egregious assault on our democracy and urging his supporters to walk down to the Capitol in a Save America March. —Emily Cochrane, congressional reporter, ‘Senate Being Locked Down’: Inside a Harrowing Day at the Capitol, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/capitol-lockdown.html. Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power. The chaos inside the US Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what law enforcement officials called a catastrophic failure to prepare. When the Left Attacked the Capitol Fifty years ago, extremists bombed the seat of American democracy to end a war and start a revolution. Below the press balcony where I stood, looking down on the room like a fishbowl, Vice President Mike Pence had just been rushed out without explanation. 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", He added: "I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. I just kept updating my story, needing something to keep me distracted. The two other photographers grabbed my hands and told me it would be OK, and to stay with them so they could vouch for me. Suddenly, two or three men in black surrounded me and demanded to know who I worked for. Five congressmen — Republicans Alvin Bentley and Ben Jensen, and Democrats Clifford Davis, George Hyde Fallon and Kenneth Roberts — were injured by gunfire. You could hear banging outside, so I crouched behind a desk, the reality of the chamber being breached sinking in. Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the US Capitol. Pence, long a loyal aide to the president, defied Trump earlier Wednesday, tell him he didn’t have the power to discard electoral votes that will make Democrat Joe Biden the next president on Jan. 20. US lawmakers returned to the Chamber on Thursday and formally certified Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election - clearing the way for his inauguration on January 20. President Donald Trump has said there "will be an orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory and after a day of violence when his supporters stormed the US Capitol. Leftist militants, called the Weather Underground, claimed responsibility for a bomb placed in a men's washroom one floor below the Senate chamber on March 1, 1971. I’ll never forget their kindness in that moment. Trump loyalists incited by President Trump storming into the Capitol building on Wednesday during a joint session of Congress convened to formally tally the results of the election. Senator Patrick Leahy, an avid amateur photographer, snapped a few frames. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election win will show the world it won't back down. By Nicholas Fandos, Erin Schaff and Emily Cochrane, [Follow our live news coverage on the protests at the Capitol and across the country.]. Trump had publicly called on Pence to overturn the will of the voters, but Pence’s constitutional role in the process was only ceremonial. I thought about how stupid I was to have left my bag at my desk on the opposite end of the Capitol, and asked to borrow someone’s computer charger just in case. Once they lost the steps, they lost the doors and windows, Gainer said. Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff has won his Senate runoff election. I ripped at the bag, struggling to pull out the hood, a sort of hybrid gas mask with a tarp, which made a loud whirring noise and had a flashing red light. Rioters forced their way past metal security barricades, broke windows and scaled walls to fight their way into the Capitol. Terms of Use Police said 52 people were arrested as of Wednesday night, including 26 on the Capitol grounds. The 33-year-old Ossoff defeated 71-year-old Republican David Perdue, who held the seat for the past six years and had the strong support of President Donald Trump. But it turned out the suspect was neither Holt nor Pearce, but Erich Muenter, a German who was a Harvard professor suspected in the poisoning death of his wife in 1906. Climbing over? The police shouted for us to get to the basement. Remain inside and calm, he instructed. Known as the Capitol Building, the United States Capitol is the meeting place of the US Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the US federal government. Was it worth scuttling down a few steps to see if the TV equipment provided more cover? [Events were detailed in the 2014 book by Howard Blum, Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America.]. Officers and doorkeepers raced around, slamming and locking the immense wooden doors. Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the US Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.”. I was shocked they’d made it inside, and thought this would be the big moment of the day: a small group of protesters having breached the Capitol building. Democrats already control the House, and adding the Senate will make it more difficult for Republicans to block Biden’s agenda, along with his Cabinet picks and judicial nominations. Two years earlier, in 1952, a significant majority of Puerto Ricans voted for “commonwealth” status. Frank Holt, a professor at Cornell University, was suspected of smuggling three sticks of dynamite in a suitcase into the Capitol on July 2, 1915. Security initially was handled almost entirely alone by the US Capitol Police, a 2,000-member force under the control of Congress and dedicated to protecting the 126-acre Capitol Grounds. I told them that I was a photojournalist and that my pass had been stolen, but they didn’t believe me. The woman who died was reportedly a dedicated Donald Trump backer and air force veteran who was among a throng of supporters of the president that invaded the US legislature, AFP reported. “We now have individuals that have breached the Capitol building,” said a Capitol Police officer who had stepped up to the rostrum. The bomb threat was phoned in overnight, 30 minutes before detonation. I found a spot to hide my camera in there, then stood watching the crowd from the balcony and filming from my phone, which was all I had left. The tally followed a joint session of the House and Senate that was interrupted by supporters of the president who stormed the US Capitol, bringing violence and mayhem to the seat of government. As Congress gavelled back into session after violence and chaos to resume the process of certifying Joe Biden's presidential election victory, Vice President Mike Pence insisted that ‘violence never wins’. The attack came four years after a failed assassination attempt that targeted then-president Harry Truman (1950). I knew I needed to get away from the mob and hide my broken camera so I wouldn’t be targeted again. In St. Paul, Minnesota, cheers rang out from demonstrators in reaction to the news that supporters of President Donald Trump had stormed the U.S. Capitol. But then the police found me. Given the time of day, no one was injured in the blast, but damage was estimated at $300,000. The officers are trained to keep protesters off the Capitol’s marble outdoor steps, to protect the complex like a citadel. “We do have an emergency,” bellowed a police officer with a neon sash who had appeared in the middle of the chamber. They drew their guns, pointed them and yelled at me to get down on my hands and knees. Grabbing my press pass, they saw that my ID said The New York Times and became really angry. Muenter was dead by July 6, 1915, killed by a fall in prison. Walking out to her balcony facing west toward the National Mall, I saw a mass of people covering the inaugural stage. Police said at least one person was shot inside the Capitol" their condition was not immediately known. This section is about Living in UAE and essential information you cannot live without. His victory gives Democrats control of the Senate for the opening of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency. "As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy," Vice President Mike Pence said as he reopened the Senate session. It was part of the push for nationhood for Puerto Rico and a push back at US colonialism. There was Senator Mitch McConnell, 78, the majority leader and a polio survivor, practically being carried by his security detail, their hands beneath his arms to steady him as they hustled along. Trying to keep the mood light, Senator Roy Blunt from my home state of Missouri teased that perhaps the interruption would speed up the debate. That's a race riot. He continued to campaign for the independence of Puerto Rico and participated in marches and demonstrations after his release. British forces tried to burn the Capitol in 1814. Trump had called on Georgia Republicans to swarm to the polls for the Republican Senate candidates even as he warned, without evidence, of the prospect of widespread voter fraud. The window entering the Speaker’s Lobby, where I’ve spent hours cornering lawmakers was shattered. Register to read and get full access to gulfnews.com, By clicking below to sign up, you're agreeing to our Soft drinks littered the halls. A bomb planted just outside the Senate on November 7, 1983 exploded but did not lead to any casualties. President Jimmy Carter commuted all four sentences during his presidential term in the late 1970s. No one came. They ripped one of my cameras away from me, broke a lens on the other and ran away. One rioter was captured by a photographer casually shouldering a large Confederate battle flag as he strode inside the Capitol. Looking left, we saw a stream of senators snaking out ahead into the narrow subterranean tunnels that connect the sprawling Capitol campus. Dubai: US lawmakers have said they will investigate how Capitol police handled Wednesday's violent breach of security, questioning whether a lack of preparedness allowed the mob to occupy and vandalise the building. In the other race, the Rev. I looked down the hall to the Rotunda and saw what looked like a hundred people running around, yelling and pulling around a podium. Benches were upturned. Pelosi said: "Despite the shameful actions of today, we will still do so, we will be part of a history that shows the world what America is made of. They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras. Reporters from the New York Times used video from the insurrection to isolate the attack on Officer Sicknick, who died the day after the Capitol riot. The president had held a rally on the National Mall earlier that day, where he repeated to a crowd of supporters the lie that President-elect Joe Biden stole his victory in November. © Al Nisr Publishing LLC 2021. 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