Nightly Vigil for January 6 Prisoners by Ellen Kok

Nightly Vigil for January 6 Prisoners

Washington DC, USA

#Activism #Arrests and Prosecutions #Capitol Riot #Confrontation #Crime #Culture #Donald Trump #Editorial #Elections #Feature #Freedom #Historical #History #Incarceration #J6-ers #Photography #Prison #Protests #Street #Trump #US Politics #Vigil #Violence

Dec 11, 2024

Placards in front of the D.C. Central Detention Facility in Washington, show the images of the five people who died during or after the the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Including Ashli Babbitt (right), a California woman who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while climbing through a shattered window beside a barricaded door into the Speaker's Lobby; but also Brian Sicknick (left), a Capitol Police officer, who died after suffering two strokes the day after he responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol during which he was assaulted with a chemical spray by two rioters. In the aftermath family members and supporters of the so called J6-ers, for almost three years now, have been holding a nightly vigil in front of the jail where rioters are imprisoned awaiting their conviction. Under the watchfull eyes of police in several patrol cars they place the placards, stream the vigil live online, pray, have phone conversations with the inmates and speak out their hope that president elect Donald Trump will pardon the J6-ers on January 20, 2025, the day of his inauguration.

Ellen Kok

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