Pelosi says she’s a ‘street fighter’ and brags she would have fought off Capitol rioters as they hunted for her
HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she would have taken on the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol building on January 6, describing herself as a “street fighter”.
The 81-year-old Democrat acknowledged the rioters had intended to reach her and other prominent figures such as the then Vice President Mike Pence.
Members of Congress were forced to flee from the building wearing gas masks after a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters breached the building, overpowering Capitol Police.
Pence, who was president of the Senate at the time, was presiding over proceedings to certify then President-elect Joe Biden had won the election.
Photos of Richard “Bigo” Barnett, one of the alleged rioters, went viral after he was with his feet up on the chair.
Pelosi along with Pence and other congressional leaders were led to safety within moments of the building being breached.
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and four others lost their lives in the chaos.
Another Capitol Police officer as well as a DC Metro Police officer committed suicide in the weeks that followed.