Disturbing details are emerging about the state of Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) office amid the U.S. Capitol riots that took place as lawmakers certified the Electoral College vote.
On Wednesday, Jan. 13, Pressley’s Massachusetts Chief of Staff Sarah Groh revealed to the Boston Globe that the entire panic button unit had been removed from the wall in the Democratic lawmaker’s office. As angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Groh revealed she and her colleagues looked for the panic button as they attempted to lock themselves inside the office.
That’s when she discovered the button was no longer there. “Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit,” she told the paper. She also revealed she had previously used the button but received no notification about it being removed. Continue reading.