
Statehouses, US capital brace for probably violent week
By means of DAVID A. LIEB and ADAM GELLER
Small teams of right-wing protesters — a few of them wearing rifles — accrued outdoor closely fortified statehouses across the nation Sunday, outnumbered via Nationwide Guard troops and police introduced in to forestall a repeat of the violence that erupted on the U.S. Capitol. As darkness fell, there have been no experiences of any clashes.
Safety was once stepped up in contemporary days after the FBI warned of the possibility of armed protests in Washington and in any respect 50 state capitol structures forward of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday.
Crowds of just a dozen or two demonstrated at some boarded-up, cordoned-off statehouses, whilst the streets in lots of different capital towns remained empty. Some protesters sta...