#NOW: I'm on a reporter call with @RepBeatty, a day after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. She has already tweeted this poll today, asking whether @realDonaldTrump should be removed in various ways, or remain in the job for two more weeks.
Rep. Beatty's thoughts on the matter are clear.
Beatty: "The terrorist attack yesterday, a failed insurrection at the Capitol, was an assault on our democracy and every American."
Beatty: "What we in the entire nation saw yesterday was un-American... there are not enough words for me to share with you, the feelings I felt being in the midst of it."
Beatty: "I put this at the hands of Donald Trump. Also, lives were lost...and certainly I would be remiss if I didn't mention what I believe was a serious breakdown of police protection: their lack of being prepared...their conduct."
Beatty: "I went from every emotion you could imagine, to anger, when I saw police officers who should be protecting me opening the barricade gates. Taking photos. Allowing rioters to scale the building. I compare it w/ what we saw in the over-militarized response we saw to BLM."
Beatty: "More than just being fired, people should be prosecuted. If we're really going to have cultural change and systemic change as we move forward, there have to be consequences for those failing to act responsible...or participating in what we saw yesterday."
Beatty is asked about being pepper-sprayed in the BLM protests last year; what went through her mind about the differences in handling?
"There was no fear when I participated in a movement...that started out very peaceful. At worst, it was nothing like what we saw yesterday."
Beatty: "It made me fearful, because there were gunshots and we could not tell whether it was police officers or rioters...even being pepper-sprayed (in Columbus), which I didn't believe was necessary: we didn't have fatalities."
Beatty describes her experiences, which she first told @wsyx6 yesterday: she was in her office chairing a virtual @TheBlackCaucus meeting; when she began to leave for the House, staff saw the insurrection underway and Rep. Beatty instead barricaded in her office.
Beatty: "Simultaneously there were some dozen individuals scaling the concrete, marble walls of the Capitol from the ground...I don't know how someone could get that close, that they could do that."
Beatty: "I wanted to go out and confront someone, that was the anger in me; the calm & intellectual side said, 'Stay in here & protect your young staff.'

Then police came to my door and said we were not safe in my office anymore." She & staff were escorted to secure location.
Beatty says when she was pepper-sprayed in Columbus, "at least officers were at least prepared."

"Yesterday, we had been told some 30,000 Proud Boys & supremacists were coming...and had been instructed to take over the Capitol. @CapitolPolice were grossly unprepared...(cont'd)
Beatty (cont'd): "I don't want to sound like some conspiracy theorist, but I don't know how those people could get in the building without some aid or the lack of being prepared."
Ohio's @RepBeatty mentions all the armed officers at BLM protests: "To not have that same protection (from @CapitolPolice...the people who came had as much ammunition as our police officers."
Beatty: "I saw more officers two hours after it was over, than I saw during the time that we were going through it."
Beatty: "If we did not see yesterday what unfit for office means, then we will never see it again in our lifetimes...I think @realDonaldTrump is dangerous." She supports removal of the President via either the 25th amendment or impeachment.
Beatty, asked if Ohioans were among the Capitol mob, to her knowledge: "It is our understanding that people came from all over."
Beatty: "We will do everything we can to protect our democracy...we also should leave America with a bit of hope. It hope I want to give, that when we approach January 20th and the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we are much better prepared" from a police standpoint.
Beatty: "I am hopeful for the future." She wraps up today's call.

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