Pat Fallon in January 6 Capitol Riot

On Principles & Values: In Congress for 3 days before Jan. 6 insurrection

[In Congress during the Jan. 6 insurrection], as I made my way out of the back of the chamber, I took another look at the Republicans walking out with me. One had grabbed a wooden post with a hand sanitizer dispenser attached to it and was carrying it like a club, in case he needed it to defend himself against the rioters. "Are you that worried?" I asked him, as we began filing down the stairs from the Speaker's lobby and through the corridors below the Capitol. "Yes," he said agitatedly. "I think I just heard gunshots." He was right--only 50 feet away from the stairs, on the other side of the lobby, Ashli Babbitt, a 14- year veteran of the Air Force, had just been shot to death by a Capitol Police officer.

"How long have you been here?" I asked the Republican.

"Seventy-two hours," he replied.

"What?"

"I was just elected. I replaced John Ratcliffe. I'm Pat Fallon."

I looked him in the eye and said: "It's not always like this."

Source: Midnight in Washington, by Adam Schiff, p. 6-7, (on Jan. 6) Oct 12, 2021

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