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Unlike the twin light beams that commemorated the #Sept11, 2001, attack or the stand-alone chairs at the #OklahomaCityBombing site #memorial, the failure to recognize #Jan6 has left a gap not only in #memory but in helping to stitch the country back together.

“That’s why you put up a plaque,” said Rep Mary Gay Scanlon, D-PA. “You respect the memory & the service of the people involved.”

#NeverForget #history #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

…At least 5 people died in the riot & its aftermath, including #Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by police while trying to climb through a window toward the House chamber. >140 law enforcement officers were wounded, some gravely, & several died later, some by suicide.

All told, ~1,500 people were charged in the #Capitol attack, among the largest federal prosecutions in the nation’s #history. When Trump returned to power, he pardoned all of them within hours of taking office.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

“That’s why you put up a plaque,” said Rep Mary Gay Scanlon, D-PA. “You respect the memory & the service of the people involved.”

#NeverForget #history #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower