The Capitol Insurrection Was a Warning Shot

The threat of armed protests is escalating before the Biden inauguration

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
4 min readJan 13, 2021

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Members of the National Guard in the Capitol rotunda on January 11. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

The extremist attacks are unlikely to stop any time soon. On Monday, House Democrats were warned of three separate violent demonstrations planned for inauguration week, one with the explicit goal of overthrowing the government by potentially murdering Democratic and…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/