Today marks the two year anniversary of the 2021 United States Capitol attack. It was on that date that domestic terrorists invaded the United States Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the certification of the previous year's presidential election while also attempting to murder numerous members of the government. At the time, Congress had been meeting for the formality of certifying the election of the new president. The president had spent months claiming the election would be rigged against him to explain any potential lost, so when he did lose re-election he called on his supporters to overturn the election by force. The president and several members of his party held a rally before hand to rile up the crowd before sending them on a march to the building. The crowd surrounded the building before overwhelming the security force and entering the building. They set up gallows with the intention of hanging the vice-president, whose job it was to actually certify the results. The terrorists roamed the building with various weapons hoping to encounter members of the other party. The group ended up infiltrating offices, vandalizing the building, stealing property, and defecating and urinating on the building. To make matters worse, the president refused to send in military enforcements to reinforce the skeletal group of Capitol Police and it wasn't for three hours that the president made a public appeal for the terrorists to leave despite watching the entire thing live on television.
Five people died during the attack, including several police officers though luckily none of the terrorists' targets were harmed. One-hundred thirty-eight police officers were injured. The attack caused severe psychological trauma for the police and four ended up committing suicide. The attack resulted in the impeachment of the president, becoming the only president to be impeached twice. A Congressional investigation was opened into the attack in addition to a criminal one. Numerous terrorists have already gone to prison while the Congressional committee has investigated several of their own colleagues' actions in starting the attack. The attempted coup quickly became considered one of the darkest days in United States history.
