

Sarah Groh told The Boston Globe that, during the Jan. The immediate concern here is that for some reason Pressley’s office was targeted in advance to have her security protections disabled because of her high-profile opposition to Trump. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., were removed, without explanation, some time before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol last week, according to her chief of staff. However, she said her focus was on returning to her office to prepare for the Pennsylvania electoral challenge. Panic buttons in the congressional office of Rep. She recalled seeing a tour of six to eight people on either Monday or Tuesday and noticed they were wearing their masks improperly. But, terrifyingly, 'every panic button in my office had been torn out the whole unit,' Groh told the Globe. “When I saw the tours, I thought, ‘It must be new members who don’t know the rules yet’ … It was unusual.” Every panic button in my office had been torn out the whole unit, Pressley’s Chief of Staff Sarah Groh shared. “It was noticeable to see people getting tours,” Scanlon said, adding that tours in the facility had been suspended since COVID-19 mitigation plans were put into place last year. When the pro-Trump rioters entered the Capitol building on January 6, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s staff barricaded the doors to their office and after doing so made a startling discovery. On Thursday, the congresswoman spoke about a tour she saw being conducted prior to the attacks. On the day of the Capitol riots, Scanlon was in her office in the Longworth House Office Building, preparing for the anticipated challenge to the Pennsylvania electoral count. Social media creates a really powerful, unaccountable echo chamber around my politics, my race, my appearance, just how. The threats went through the roof, Pressley said. Ms Pressley, who represents Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district, told 7News Boston on Wednesday that discovering the panic buttons had been removed during the attack was unnerving. Her office was flooded with thousands of messages, some of them ominous. 6 attacks and, on that day, she had to assemble the panic button in her office as it was disconnected. Within hours, Pressley’s quote was all over social media and conservative news platforms.

Capitol, in a breach of protocol, shortly before the Jan. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-5 of Swarthmore said she noticed a tour being given at the U.S.
