Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) delivered an impassioned speech in response to comments from Members of Congress that downplayed the events that took place at the Capitol on January 6.
In those remarks, Congressman Cohen said, in part:
“Earlier this week, a Freshman Republican said that January 6 could have been seen as just a typical tourist day in the Capitol. Well let me tell that gentleman that on typical tourist days in the Capitol, a hundred policemen aren’t beaten by people who try to enter the Capitol when it’s closed to public attendance because of the coronavirus.
“On typical tourist days, people don’t put excrement on the walls of the Capitol of the United States. On typical tourist days, people don’t urinate on the floors of the Capitol of the United States. On typical days, people don’t batter down the windows on the outside to breach the Capitol.
“On typical days, people don’t batter down the doors and the glass entering the Speaker’s lobby, resulting in one person’s death. And if that person wasn’t dead, they would have breached the floor of the House and God knows what they’d have done if they could have found a person on the House. They were hollering ‘Hang Mike Pence! Nancy Pelosi, where are you? We're here!’
“That was an insurrection. That was an attack on our Constitution. It should never be forgotten by anybody who was serving in the Congress, by any American, because our liberty, our Constitution, our country, our values were on the line.”
The full remarks can be seen here. It has also been posted to the Congressman’s Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Original source can be found here.
