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CHAOS AT THE CAPITOL
PRO-TRUMP MOB
STORMS CONGRESS
Lawmakers evacuate amid Electoral College certification
‘Our
president
is fanning
the flames’
Bulletin staff report
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Jacquelyn Martin/AP
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in
Washington on Wednesday. The gathering eventu-
ally devolved into what Sen. Mitt Romney and others
characterized as an “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.
Democrats win Georgia seats — and control of the Senate, A4
Local residents
express outrage
over D.C. chaos
n the day she
started her first
day in politics,
taking the oath of of-
fice Wednesday along
with three other new-
comers to the Bend
City Council, Rita
Schenkelberg felt fear
and passion for the job.
She wondered if it
would be affected by the
chaos in Washington,
D.C., where an angry
mob broke into the U.S.
Capitol, clashed with
police and prompted
a building lockdown.
Both chambers of Con-
gress went into recess
in the middle of the
Electoral College vote.
Law enforcement of-
ficers aimed weapons
at intruders and tear
gas floated through the
Capitol Rotunda.
“How do you do
your job if the whole
time you are looking
over your shoulder be-
cause you are scared
people are going to
storm the room?”
Schenkelberg said.
But that fear doesn’t
make Schenkelberg
want the job any less.
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Julio Cortez/AP
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. As Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, thousands of people gathered
to show their support for the president and his claims of election fraud.
‘Lock the
doors!’
Violent Trump loyalists
cleared from Capitol after
forcing lawmakers out
Associated Press
A
Oregon’s congressio-
nal delegation found
themselves trapped by
people who stormed the
Capitol in protest of the
Electoral College vote to
verify the election of Joe
Biden as president.
Pro-Trump pro-
testers broke into the
main part of the Cap-
itol, forcing senators
and House members to
lock themselves inside
the chambers.
“Lock the doors,
lock the doors,” Sen.
Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
shouted.
violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump
stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and
forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning at-
tempt to overturn America’s presidential election, under-
cut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden
from replacing Trump in the White House.
The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to
crouch under desks and don gas marks, while police
futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most
jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American po-
litical power. A woman was shot and killed inside the
Capitol, and Washington’s mayor instituted an eve-
ning curfew in an attempt to contain the violence.
The rioters were egged on by Trump, who has spent
weeks falsely attacking the integrity of the election and
had urged his supporters to descend on Washington
to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s victory.
Some Republican lawmakers were in the midst of
raising objections to the results on his behalf when the
proceedings were abruptly halted by the mob.
Together, the protests and the GOP election objec-
tions amounted to an almost unthinkable challenge
to American democracy and exposed the depths of
the divisions that have coursed through the country
during Trump’s four years in office.
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BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
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U.S. Capitol Police with guns drawn stand near a barricaded door inside the House
chamber as people try to break through.
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Joe Biden speaks from
Wilmington, Delaware,
on Wednesday. Biden
— due to be sworn in
as the next president in
two weeks — called the
violent protests on the
U.S. Capitol “an assault
on the most sacred of
American undertakings:
the doing of the people’s
business.”
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SALEM — Right-
wing demonstrators
and supporters of Pres-
ident Donald Trump
rallied outside the Or-
egon State Capitol on
Wednesday as part of
a nationwide protest
of the 2020 election re-
sults.
Protesters also took
the opportunity to de-
cry Gov. Kate Brown’s
COVID-19 emergency
orders.
While the crowd
of hundreds had
largely dispersed af-
ter 2:30 p.m., video
taken by the Salem Re-
porter earlier in the day
showed violent clashes
with counterprotesters
that led Salem Police to
declare an unlawful as-
sembly.
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