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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa fayecimento
inespera di nos ser stima:
Michael C. Hoek
Mihor conoci como “Buchi”
*21-08-1961 - †04-01-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
Mira con Dios a salba mi,
Tur mi confiansa ta den djE,
Mi n’ tin miedo:
Señor Dios ta mi forsa, mi refugio.
E mes t’Esun cu a salba mi.
Isaias 12:2
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa fayecimento
di nos ser stima:
Sra. Mirta Tromp-Schotborg
*14-10-1952 - †28-12-2021
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obituario/u.s. news Diahuebs 6 Januari 2022
‘We were trapped’: Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for
lawmakers
lawmakers ducking in the gal-
lery believed the worst was just
beginning.
“I think all of us, myself in-
cluded, had images of a mass-
shooting event,” said Rep. Peter
Welch, D-Vt., who posted video
updates on Twitter as the chaos
unfolded. “It was terrifying in
the moment.”
Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill.,
said he could tell the gunshot
had come from the back of the
chamber, in the Speaker’s Lob-
by just outside, and not from
the main doors on the opposite
(AP) — Long after most ly shaken by their experience, side where they could see rioters
other lawmakers had been recalling viscerally the sights and trying to break through. In that
rushed to safety, they were sounds amid the chaos. moment he realized why they
on the hard marble floor, Vividly they remember the loud, couldn’t leave — they were sur-
ducking for cover. hornetlike buzz of their gas rounded. “It was in stages that
masks. The explosive crack of you realized the severity,” he
Trapped in the gallery of the tear gas in the hallways outside. said.
House, occupying balcony seats The screams of officers telling Their terror was compounded
off-limits to the public because them to stay down. The thun- by knowledge of what the mob
of COVID-19, roughly three derous beating on the doors be-
dozen House Democrats were low. Glass shattering as the riot- was after: stopping Congress
the last ones to leave the cham- ers punched through a window from certifying the Electoral
ber on Jan. 6, bearing witness as pane. The knobs rattling omi- College votes that would make
the certification of a presidential nously on the locked doors just Joe Biden the 46th president of
election gave way to a violent in- a few feet behind them. the United States. Mike Pence,
surrection. as is customary for the vice
And most indelibly, the loud president, had been presiding
As danger neared, and as the ri- clap of a gunshot, reverberating over the ceremony in the House
oters were trying to break down across the cavernous chamber. chamber where lawmakers were
the doors, they called their fami- gathered to hear the certified re-
lies. They scrambled for make- “I’ve heard a lot of gunshots in sults from all 50 U.S. states and
shift weapons and mentally pre- my time, and it was very clear the territories.
pared themselves to fight. Many what that was,” Crow said. “I
thought they might die. knew that things had severely Trump had other ideas.
escalated.”
“When I looked up, I had this re- Spouting lies about election
alization that we were trapped,” The shot was fired by Officer fraud that were refuted by
said Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Michael Byrd and killed Ashli his own Justice Department,
a former Army Ranger who Babbitt, a Trump supporter Trump pressured Pence to re-
served three tours of duty in from California who was try- ject the electors — a move that
Iraq and Afghanistan. “They had ing to crawl through the broken would have bucked the Consti-
evacuated the House floor first. window of a door that leads to tution and thrown the House,
And they forgot about us.” the House chamber. Both the and potentially the country, into
Justice Department and Capitol chaos. Pence refused to do so,
Bound together by circum- Police investigated the shooting but Trump held a rally in Wash-
stance, sharing a trauma unique- and declined to file charges. ington before the vote-counting
ly their own, the lawmakers began, telling hundreds of sup-
were both the witnesses and the While the gunshot dispersed porters at the Ellipse to “fight
victims of an unprecedented as- some of the violent mob, the like hell.”
sault on American democracy.
Along with a small number of
staffers and members of the me-
dia, they remained in the cham-
ber as Capitol Police strained to
hold back the surging, shouting
mob of supporters of then-Pres-
ident Donald Trump.
The lawmakers were finally
taken to safety roughly an hour
after the siege began.
Interviewed by The Associated
Press before this week’s anni-
versary of the attack, 10 of the
House members who were in
the gallery talked of being deep-