One of my colleagues was talking about how she had instructed her staff to wear just regular casual clothes in case they needed to blend in with the crowd at any point, and she herself was wearing black pants and a black turtleneck because she wanted to fit in if she needed to,” Jayapal said. “I think we all understand, but particularly as a woman of color and an immigrant woman of color, what happens when you have white nationalist, armed, violent individuals. This, as she noted, was simply not an option for congresswomen of color like her, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) told The Cut that some members of Congress told their staff members to wear normal clothes in order to blend in with the rabid mob of white supremacists. I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive.” “I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die. “There were QAnon, white supremacist sympathizers and frankly white supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I had felt would disclose my location,” she said.
#AYANNA PANIC BUTTON FULL#
She said she could not share the full story because of security concerns, but she openly said she worried that her Republican colleagues would reveal her location in order for the attackers to hurt her.
In an Instagram Live with her constituents, Ocasio-Cortez explained that she had her own terrifying situation that day. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) highlighted the situation on Twitter, writing, "Even if one assumes this as some totally innocent oversight, how does the department responsible remove ALL the panic buttons from a highly visible member’s office and NOT inform that member or their staff?"Įven if one assumes this as some totally innocent oversight, how does the department responsible remove ALL the panic buttons from a highly visible member’s office and NOT inform that member or their staff? - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez January 13, 2021 The small note in the longer story about how representatives from Massachusetts dealt with the Capitol Building attack caused a stir online as more information poured in from members of Congress about how the day played out. "Barricaded in my office, sitting or lying on the floor, in the dark, with a gas mask in my hand, alongside my chief of staff, my husband, another member and their aide," Pressley said, adding that she has since called for an investigation to be done into what Republican members of Congress knew about the attack. She later described her experience during the attack to NBC10 Boston. “The safety of the Congresswoman, her family and our staff remain our top priority and at the direction of the Congresswoman, the Sergeant at Arms oversaw the installation of new duress buttons throughout the office following the attack,” her office added. Furious that more of my colleagues by the day are testing positive.- Ayanna Pressley Janu“Our staff has used these devices before and they are regularly tested and maintained,” Pressley said in a follow-up statement to The Hill, explaining that there were duress buttons that were “installed throughout the congresswoman’s office suite.” The second I realized our "safe room" from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited. "Furious that more of my colleagues by the day are testing positive," she added. "The second I realized our "safe room" from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited," Pressley said on Twitter, later referencing the fact that her husband, along with other members of Congress tested positive for COVID-19 after having to shelter with Republicans who would not wear masks. Pressley later wrote on Twitter that she was terrified because she, like other members of Congress, were worried that their Republican colleagues were giving the domestic terrorists information during the attack. "To try to go through the day of keeping her safe and also filing responsive legislation while there was a noose with a functional platform hung on the West Lawn was incredibly jarring," Groh said. She had used them before so she knew where they were supposed to be. Groh later told NewsCenter 5 that the entire day was filled with harrowing events. “Every panic button in my office had been torn out - the whole unit,” Groh said.
Staffers were securing the door to Pressley's office when they realized the panic buttons were no longer there. It felt like the heat was being turned up in terms of the rhetoric and Trump’s aims to incite violence,” Groh said before detailing what happened once the Trump supporters were in the building running amok.
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