Americans today: ‘I don’t think this is the end of rage’
BBC has asked ordinary Americans from around the country how they see the 6 January attack today.
To A’Kayla Sellers, a law student from South Carolina, last year’s riot “exposed a lot of the cracks America had in its foundations”, not least of which was how police respond in different situations.
As she saw it, police were “lackadaisical” with individuals who stormed the Capitol – most of whom were white.
A’Kayla marched in several ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests in 2020, during which she claims she was tear-gassed and saw many others treated poorly by law enforcement.
“Thinking now about that juxtaposition between how African Americans were treated versus those that broke into the Capitol brings back those emotions of frustration about how our police as a whole treats different groups of citizens,” she tells the BBC.
She believes there is a lot more racial tension and political anger remains.
“A group of individuals that were angered and frustrated decided to take matters into their own hands and charged the Capitol unlawfully,” she says.
“I don’t think this is the end of that rage.”
Credit to BBC NEWS
