22 Jun 2026 2:20 pm
**** off, worthless lying piece of ****...Zeets2 » Today, 1:05 pm » wrote: ↑ So how come we didn't see any arson or graffiti paint caused by the demonstrators even
But on Jan. 6, taking off her pin was a matter of safety. It identified her as a lawmaker, and lawmakers were at risk of violence.
“So that was a sad day when you think I have the honor of serving and I couldn’t wear that pin,” Dean said.
When she talks about Jan. 6, Dean sounds like a lawyer prosecuting a case. Then she recalls talking with her family during those frightening moments.
“I was on the phone with my family from the time they told us to put the gas masks on,” she said, her eyes filling with tears.
Dean paused as tears slid down her cheeks. “I feel bad," she said, "that I scared them so much.”
She didn’t feel safe at any point that day, not even when they were cleared to return to the ransacked House floor and vote to certify the presidential election. She passed shattered glass, splintered wood, feces smeared on the Capitol walls that Dean had always found “gorgeous” and “stately.”
https://dean.house.gov/2022/1/jan-6-cap ... eir-escape