#5SmartReads - July 28, 2021

On the insurrection, COVID vaccine availability in kids, and Bennifer

‘This is how I’m going to die’: Officers describe horrors of Jan. 6 riot (Politico)

It was not a peaceful demonstration or a “lovefest”. It was a riot. An insurrection. An attack by domestic terrorists on our government and our country.

And if you listened to the words of any of the four brave officers who defended the Capitol that day, you would know just how traumatizing it was.

Watch this video. Read this article. And push back the narrative that this was somehow a peaceful demonstration, or not a big deal, or something we should just move on from.