“I always thought that personally I was very safe in this job, particularly when I’m in the Capitol complex, because it takes so much to get in there. … I don’t quite feel that same level of safety,” said Rep. Scott Peters about Jan. 6, 2021.
and that the nation’s two-century record of a peaceful transition of power had crumbled.
“All I could think of is: Get out. Run. As fast as you can. You don’t want to be trapped in here. Run, run, run,” Gomez recalled. “And all of a sudden, they closed the doors on us and they told us to get on the ground. There’s people trying to break in outside the doors.”
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