PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A collection of long-awaited public hearings will get underway Thursday concerning the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Four individuals from our space have pleaded responsible to crimes for his or her involvement in the riots. The Department of Justice mentioned three are from Palm Beach County and one other is from St. Lucie County.
Out of greater than 800 individuals criminally charged, almost 90 are from Florida.
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“I was there, I was there when it happened. I had to barricade myself with another member for many hours while the insurrectionists paraded by,” mentioned U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Florida.
Frankel known as the insurrection a day the U.S. got here dangerously near dropping its democracy.
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In the weeks following the assault, U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, shared his response
“This is the most serious of things for us to undertake in Congress and it’s to party two groups together to say that one person said or did something whether in one day or over months and caused other people to do something that was violent and unconstitutional,” Mast mentioned.
The evening’s first in-person witness was Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards.
Edwards suffered a mind damage after she was knocked down by rioters.
The committee can be anticipated to point out recorded testimony from among the 1,000 different key witnesses, however Trump allies have relentlessly blasted the hearings, slamming it as a partisan witch hunt.
Thursday’s hearing the primary in a collection of a minimum of six hearings relating to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.