. “I took a bunch of photos and then went to the ceremonial doors to the Rotunda, where a single police officer guarded the door against a throng of hundreds outside.”
She said the mob rushed the officer and flooded inside. She ran upstairs to get away from the crowd when she was suddenly accosted by a group of men demanding to know who she worked for. “Grabbing my press pass, they saw that my ID said The New York Times and became really angry,” she recounted. “They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras. I started screaming for help as loudly as I could. No one came. People just watched. At this point, I thought I could be killed and no one would stop them.”
The National Guard surrounds the Capitol after dispersing the remnants of a violent mob, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in
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