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Capitol assault: hours of chaos caused by Trump supporters

2022-01-05T19:01:22.417Z


This is followed by a re-enactment of the assault on the United States Capitol by Trump supporters, which occurred on January 6, 2021.


Order turned into chaos on January 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

As legislators from the 117th Congress of the United States, who had just taken office, began to count the votes of the Electoral College to elect a new president, a mob of Trump supporters carried out an assault on the Capitol.

What followed were hours of chaos, clashes and confinement, which left five dead.

Next, a reconstruction of the events that occurred on that historic day that shook the capital of the United States.

1:10 pm Washington time (same time as Miami)

At the end of the rally, Trump calls on his supporters to "walk down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol."

As Congress begins the process of formalizing the victory of President-elect Joe Biden at the Electoral College, President Donald Trump encourages his supporters to protest in front of the United States Capitol.

Despite vowing to join them, Trump drove to the White House in his truck and watched the violence unfold on Capitol Hill on television.

"We are going to walk to the Capitol. And we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen. And we are probably not going to cheer so much for some of them, because we will never recover our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong." he said at his rally in Elipse Park, across from the White House.

Upon concluding, Trump reaffirmed that he would join his supporters in the march to the Capitol.

"We will walk down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol," he said.

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Jacquelyn Martin / AP

Shortly after 1 p.m. ET

Pro-Trump agitators break down barriers on Capitol Hill

Shortly after 1 p.m. ET, hundreds of Trump supporters push past barriers set up along the perimeter of the Capitol, after which they confront police officers wearing full riot gear, some calling the officers "traitors. "for doing your job.

Brendan Gutenschwager

Shortly after 1:30 p.m. ET

Capitol Police Alert Staff to Suspicious Package and Evacuation Begins

The United States Capitol Police are ordering personnel to evacuate the Cannon Building and the James Madison Memorial Building, which is part of the Library of Congress, due to police activity, multiple sources reported to CNN.

The Capitol Police send an alert to staff about a suspicious package.

Later, law enforcement confirmed to CNN that homemade bombs were found at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, and on the Capitol grounds.

All the devices were safely detonated by police, the source said.

Shortly after 2 p.m. ET

Capitol closes

The US Capitol is now on lockdown.

- Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 6, 2021

2:24 pm ET

Trump slams Mike Pence as rioters storm Capitol Hill

Trump criticizes his vice president on Twitter as rioters stormed Capitol Hill and before Pence could be safely evacuated.

Some of the pro-Trump agitators can be heard yelling "Where's Mike Pence?"

and chanting "Hang Mike Pence", upset that he is fulfilling his constitutional duty to certify the election results.

In a tweet that is no longer available because Twitter suspended his account, Trump writes:

"Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what he should have done to protect our country and our Constitution by giving states the opportunity to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones they were asked to pre-certify. America demands the truth. "

Around 2:30 p.m. ET

Pro-Trump agitators smash Capitol windows

Shortly before 2:30 pm, the Capitol Police requests additional help from law enforcement.

The rioters scaled the exterior walls of the Capitol, clashing with the police and pushing past the barriers outside the building.

The mob managed to enter the building after assaulting police, with some breaking windows to enter.

Brendan Gutenschwager

Around 2:30 p.m. ET

Pro-Trump protesters storm Capitol Hill

After entering the Capitol, the agitators begin to walk the corridors of Congress.

Many wore red caps emblazoned with MAGA (Make America Great, Trump's campaign slogan) while taking photos in the Statues Hall, right next to the House of Representatives compound.

"I've never been to this Chamber, have you?" A woman yelled to the crowd.

"That's right, it belongs to us. You belong to us."

Pool

2:30 pm ET

Capitol Police orders evacuation of legislators

Vice President Mike Pence is evacuated from the Senate, along with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. As president pro tempore of the Senate, Grassley is third in the line of presidential succession, behind Pence and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. , Nancy Pelosi.

The police also began evacuating other legislators and staff present for the certification of Electoral College votes.

Upon leaving, the staff grabbed the boxes with the Electoral College ballots to put them to safety.

Drew Angerer / Getty Images

Shortly after 2:45 p.m. ET

Trump supporters enter the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

After entering the Capitol, some Trump supporters manage to enter Pelosi's office.

You pose for a picture and leave a message on your desk that says "WE WILL NOT BACK UP."

CNN has blurred parts of the second image to protect individuals' personal information.

Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images

Shortly after 2:45 p.m. ET

The agitators invade the precinct and the Senate platform

As chaos descends on Capitol Hill, rioters enter the Senate compound, with several posing for photos behind the podium.

Win McNamee / Getty Images

2:48 pm ET

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser Announces Citywide Curfew

In response to the escalating situation on Capitol Hill, Bowser announces a city-wide curfew in Washington from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day.

Janie Boschma / CNN

3:13 pm ET

Trump calls on rioters to "remain peaceful"

In his second tweet about the riots, Trump asks his followers, who protested on his behalf and those he had encouraged to march to the Capitol, to "remain peaceful" and "respect the law."

He refrains from telling them to go home.

3:15 pm ET

Ivanka Trump Calls Rioters "American Patriots" In Tweet

While retweeting her father, Ivanka Trump refers to the agitators as "American patriots."

Then he deleted the tweet.

Ivanka Trump:

American Patriots - Any breach of security or disrespect for our law enforcement agencies is unacceptable.


The violence must stop immediately.

Please be at peace.

Donald Trump:

Support the Capitol Police and Law Enforcement.

They really are on the side of our country.

Stay Peaceful!

3:21 pm ET

They report the death of a woman by a shooting in the Capitol

A woman, an Air Force veteran involved in the riots, is reported to be in critical condition after being shot in the chest on the Capitol grounds.

She is taken to the hospital, but later dies from her injuries.

Three other agitators die of medical emergencies according to Washington Police Chief Robert Contee.

Shortly thereafter, Capitol Police confirm that Agent Brian Sicknick was injured when confronting the rioters.

He later dies from those injuries and pays tribute for his service in the Capitol Rotunda.

Around 3:25 p.m. ET

The agitators withdrawn from the Senate compound

More than an hour after the rioters stormed the Capitol, the police manage to clear the Senate compound. The agitators are moved away from the Senate wing of the building and moved towards the Rotunda.

3:36 pm ET

Trump finally sends in the National Guard

Several hours after the rioters stormed the Capitol, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets that Trump has dispatched the National Guard to Washington, along with "other federal protective services."

Trump initially resisted doing so on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the building, a source told CNN.

Trump had deployed more than 17,000 National Guard members to at least 23 states and Washington City last summer, in response to protests demanding justice for George Floyd.

Earlier, Pence had spoken by phone with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, according to another source, and had encouraged a much more rapid deployment of the National Guard on Capitol Hill to help put down the rioters who were breaking the lines. security barriers and overwhelming the Capitol Police.

Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times / Redux

Around 3:44 p.m. ET

Multiple injured police officers reported

Multiple officers are injured in the violent insurrection, with at least one transported to a hospital.

Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images

4:15 pm ET

Biden says US democracy is under "unprecedented assault" and calls on Trump to "step forward

In his speech in Delaware, Biden asks Trump to appear on television to "demand an end to this siege."

"Right now, our democracy is under unprecedented assault, like nothing we have seen in modern times, an assault on a citadel of freedom - the Capitol itself," Biden said.

"This is not dissent, it is disorder. It is chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I ask this mob to stand down and allow the work of democracy to continue."

Cnn in Spanish

4:17 pm ET

Trump tweets a video

In a short video in which he repeats a series of false claims about the elections, the president tells the agitators: "You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order."

Since then, Twitter removed the tweet for "repeated and serious violations of our Civic Integrity Policy," according to the social network. 

Twitter said it had blocked Trump's account for 12 hours, warning for the first time that it could be permanently suspended.

White House

6:27 pm ET

Congressional leaders announce they will proceed with the recount

After police evacuated the Capitol and began the 6 p.m. curfew, Pelosi issued a statement saying that Congress intends to meet again that night to finish affirming Biden's election.

CREDITS

ADDITIONAL WORK OF

Madeleine Stix, Isabelle Chapman, Henrik Pettersson, Brett Roegiers and Rebecca Wright

EDITED BY

Kaeti Hinck and Sean O'Key

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM

Peter Nickeas, Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Kaitlan Collins, Pamela Brown, Allie Malloy, Kate Sullivan, Eric Bradner, Jim Acosta, Brian Fung, Donie O'Sullivan, Noah Gray, Kate Bennett, Sarah Mucha, Sam Fossum, Ali Zaslav, Ted Barrett, Betsy Klein, Veronica Stracqualursi and Chris Cillizza

Source: cnnespanol

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