The most widely distributed images of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday captured unprecedented — and certainly shocking — behavior. In video footage aired on CNN, a buoyant young man mentions that somewhere inside the Capitol had been dubbed the “weed room,” as if the riot were just a rowdy house party. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” President Donald Trump told his supporters, shortly before they knocked over fences and forced their way into the Capitol building. Much of the imagery that has emerged in subsequent days has captured just how violent the siege was. Outside, a group of Trump supporters smashed up audiovisual equipment being used by Associated Press reporters, fashioning multiple nooses out of their cables.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2021 00:11 UTC