Americans in Newfoundland watched the siege of their country's iconic government building in Washington, D.C. with a sense of fear, sadness and — for Kimberly Phillips — confusion. The protest rapidly turned into a riot, with Trump supporters pushing past police and guards and storming the front steps, eventually breaking windows and making their way inside the inner chambers and top-level offices. "I mean, [media footage] showed police that were just basically standing by and watching people break into the Capitol." The dean of Memorial University's graduate school also expressed sympathy to its American students, watching the unprecedented events from afar, in a tweet late Wednesday afternoon. "There's been fear for a long time because of the Trump supporters, and especially the racist element to that.

Source: CBC News January 07, 2021 00:06 UTC