Mayor Muriel Bowser on Capitol Hill Riot: ‘People Will Have Lifelong Trauma, the People Who Work There’

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BOWSER: "Well, your eyes aren’t lying. Everybody saw what happened. There was no confusion about who caused it. D.C. residents, anti-groups did not flood the streets after our request to stay away from these incidents. And so these were all people who could not accept the results of the election and were spurred there by the president, who launched them from the White House, who, it appears, from everything that we’re learning, was part of the organization. That’s why accountability is so important. What the committee is doing is so important, that we find out what happened and who is responsible. People were hurt. People died. People will have lifelong trauma, the people who work there, including the lawmakers, but the staff as well. The staff who are at the Capitol have committed oftentimes their entire careers to serving our country. My residents as well, they live in Washington, D.C., and I told somebody yesterday I went to the Capitol for the service for one of the officers who perished and I was just struck by how hurt and traumatized the staff were. And no workplace, especially the United States Capitol, should our workers be put in that position."