When we were able to evacuate the House gallery, we did so by jumping over rows of chairs while wearing gas masks as officers barricaded the doors with guns violent assault on the seat of our American government caused dozens of injuries and five deaths so far, including that of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who died defending us and the very foundations of our disgraceful incursion-incited by President Trump as he revved up the crowd and set our Capitol as its target-was nothing less than an attempted violence that took place on January 6th was not isolated.