Congressmen do “therapy” on Capitol Hill a year after the assault

Congressmen from U.S who were present a year ago on Capitol Hill during the assault by a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) shared their experiences and reflections on Thursday in an emotional act in Congress.

One by one, several legislators from the Lower House spoke at the podium installed in the hall of the Cannon Caucus from the legislative headquarters, where a giant image of the Capitol had been placed for the occasion.

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In their speeches, the congressmen warned of the dangers against democracy and praised the work carried out on January 6, 2021 by the Police of the Capitol when it comes to protecting the enclosure.

That day, hundreds of followers of Trump They broke into the headquarters of Congress when a joint session of both houses was held to ratify the victory of the Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 elections. The event resulted in five deaths, including a policeman, and 140 officers injured.

These are the reflections of some legislators, all of them Democrats:

– Lisa Blunt Rochester, representante de Delaware:

“January 6, for me, will always be a day to remember how the light of acts of courage, small and great, defeated the dark.”

“I will always remember those who literally gave their lives. It is a day of reflection, I reflect on that day, being trapped in the hemicycle, basically praying for our security and the peace of the nation. “

– Collin Allred, representative for Texas:

“I was raised by my single mother, I played in the NFL (National Football League), went to law school and became a civil rights attorney. I thought, when I left the NFL, as a defense and where my job was to bring people to the ground, that that ability and the need to do it were over “, until the day of the assault on the Capitol.

– Anne McLane Kuster, representing New Hampshire:

“I was in the chamber (lower) chamber with my colleagues to witness the ratification of (the results) of the elections of Joe Biden as our president and Kamala Harris as our historic vice president. We could hear the shouting and commotion in the corridor outside the chamber and the knocking on the door of the hemicycle ”.

– Sheila Jackson Lee, representative from Texas:

“I was here on 9/11 (September 11, 2001), I was in the building for a meeting and I didn’t want to acknowledge the noise outside until someone came in and said I had to run for my life. That day we ran together. We ran as Republicans, Democrats, Americans … We were afraid together and we had hope together “, unlike last January 6.

– Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania Legislator:

“I went back to the hemicycle and stayed there again and heard a series of orders from I didn’t know who at the time. ‘Sit down, please prepare to kneel or lie down.’ Please take out your (gas) masks from under your seats “

– Mary Gay Scanlon, representante por Pensivalnia:

“As chaos unleashed on January 6, 2021, I locked myself in my office, received calls and texts from concerned family, friends, and (congressional) staff, while receiving advice from a friend, who is a high school teacher. , on how to barricade my office door “.

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