Media Captures Unprecedented Storming of U.S. Capitol
Reporters and anchors described scenes of bedlam and fear, questioning how security and the nation's leaders did not anticipate it.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump played out on national television and social media in searing fashion Wednesday. The pictures were stunning: security officials with guns drawn on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, people fighting with police in the Capitol Rotunda, rioters smashing windows and streaming into the building where the nation’s leaders had gathered to count votes sealing President-elect Joe Biden’s…
