The day after, the Capitol appears like the scene of a crime. It is getting lonely around Donald Trump – and the calls for his immediate removal are louder.
Published: 01/07/2021, 10:34 PM—
Storming of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters: A picture of the events of January 6, 2021 that has already burned itself into the collective memory of Americans.
Foto: Manuel Balce Ceneta (Keystone)
They left their mark.
Dry blood sticks to the bust of Zachary Taylor, the twelfth President of the United States. It stands in a side corridor of the Capitol, which leads from an entrance on the north side to the Senate Hall. Someone has pulled a plastic sheet over the bust, but you can still see the blood underneath, it shimmers rust-red around the President’s stone mouth.
The day after, no one can say for sure where the blood came from. Not the policemen standing around in the entrance, not the journalists taking photos of the bust. But it is clear that a few meters from the bust a 35-year-old woman tried to climb through the broken glass of a door on Wednesday afternoon. Then, when the mob broke the barricades and started to storm the interior of the Capitol. It is also certain that the woman was hit by a shot and had to be carried outside bleeding by paramedics. She later died in the hospital.
