U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS CONGRESSWOMAN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING RIOTERS

LOOPS – US Virgin Islands Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett has condemned yesterday’s storming of the US Capitol Building by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump.

Plaskett, who was in the Congress Chamber when the rioters breached security barriers in a bid to stop the certification of last November’s Presidential Election, posted on Twitter: “The democracy WILL CONTINUE. We will not be deterred by seditionists, criminals; not protesters, looters, thugs and domestic terrorists.”

The congresswoman said her fellow parliamentarians “will not be thwarted by the words of this president; by those who cower and try to curry favour with him and not by those who are afraid of this democracy.”

She noted that the change in government and Senate from Republican to Democratic control represents a new day for the United States.