By Sarah Fowler, The Lily, January 29, 2021
Two weeks to the day before newly sworn in Vice President Harris walked through the halls of the U.S. Capitol — robed in bright purple, making history as the first woman, the first Black American and the first Indian American in the role — another female lawmaker of color hid in the dark, barricaded against a violent pro-Trump mob that had breached the building.
They were mere feet from her door.
On Jan. 6, after the last of the rioters trickled out of the Capitol, leaving broken glass, graffiti, feces and trauma in their wake, an image from inside spread across social media: two chairs, stacked on top of each other, the rounded, wooden back of one propped under a doorknob. On one side of the door, rioters yelled “Where’s Nancy?” On the other, Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) constructed a makeshift fortress to protect herself in the event rioters attempted to storm the office.
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From a different perspective from the Washington Post:
Lawmakers are still struggling with the trauma of the Capitol riot. Pelosi is trying to help.
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