2025-02-21
24 分钟My name is Dan Barry, and I'm a senior reporter at the New York Times.
When hundreds of rioters stormed The Capitol on January 6, 2021,
I, like many of my other colleagues, wrote a story.
And a few months later,
I wrote a long investigative piece with a few colleagues, including Alan Foyer,
that focused on one corner of the riot that took place on the lower west terrace of the Capitol.
This is now effectively a riot, and it was absolute viol, mayhem.
We used tons of video, we did interviews, we went through all sorts of documents.
There was hand to hand combat with police officers,
multiple capital injury, multiple capital injury.
There was a woman dying on the steps.
There were people screaming, there was tear gas, and police officers were being assaulted,
literally dragged down the steps and being beaten with flag poles,
including with a pole that had the American flag attached to it.
Four years later,
the next big story that Alan
and I teamed up on was a look at how the narrative of January 6 had been turned upside down.
Despite all the evidence, despite all the video, despite all the convictions,
this day of violence had now become, in the words of Donald Trump, a day of love.
The rioters were now patriots,