One year ago, an angry mob supporting former Pres. Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Pres. Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
Listen to the latest episode of "Connect the Dots" below.
In some ways, it's hard to imagine a whole year has gone by since that deadly riot.
First-year Congressman Ritchie Torres was in the first week of his new job and forced to hide as rioters flooded the chambers.
"(It's one thing to) express displeasure, which is the right of every American," he told "Connect the Dots" on Thursday. "It's something else to violently invade the U.S. capitol, which is the temple of our democracy, and terrorize members of Congress and intimidate those members of Congress from certifying results of the election. That's not protest, that's an insurrection, that's an assault on our democracy."
Listen to find out how we might remember the Capitol insurrection in the future and how its history is still being written.
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