Wednesday, January 6 brought a dark day in history that will forever be in the history books, it is marked with domestic terror, riots, and attacks on capitol police.

The day began when incumbent President Trump gave a speech outside of the White House that fanned the flames of election fraud, claiming that it was impossible for him to lose the 2020 election.

Trump said, “We will never give up, we will never concede.”

These words, among several others, struck with his supporters, prompting them to march down to the Capitol building where lawmakers were voting to certify President Biden’s electoral votes.

A group there to hear one of Trump’s last speeches as president quickly became a group of rioters, marching down to the Capitol and breaking through police barricades to finally break into the building by breaking windows, beating officers, scaling walls, and breaking down doors.

As the mob approached the Capitol building with intent to break in and stop the vote to certify Biden’s win, they beat outnumbered police officers on the scene.

Most notably, Peter Frances Stager beat a Washington Metro police officer with an American flag and flagpole, prompting his arrest after the raid ended Wednesday.

As the mob broke into the area near the senator’s chambers, Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman steered the angry mob away from the Senate chambers, as they had reached dangerously close and threatened the safety of the senators.

The House of Representatives was instructed to shelter in place, hiding in between railings and seats as shots were fired into the chambers; they were later instructed to put on special gas masks under their seats as tear gas was deployed to disperse the rioters.

Loretto senior Natalia Gallardo said, “I was not surprised at all, I knew his cult of fans would do something of this nature at some point.”

The Senate was evacuated to a safe location, waiting for the all-clear to certify election results.

As the mob, made up of his extreme fans, stormed the halls of the nation’s center, with confederate flags, zip ties, guns and much more finally made their way into the House of Representatives’ voting floor, where they dangled from the stairs and stood in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s spot.

Treading into the offices of the representatives, Arkansas man Richard Barnett looted the office of Speaker Pelosi, writing on files, taking mail, and putting his feet on her desk while other looters neared other representatives’ offices.

Marking the walls along their route, phrases like “Murder the media” and “We will not back down” were left as the Capitol building was looted by rioters.

Gallardo said, “I was very outraged, I couldn’t believe they were making a mess left and right- I was even more infuriated when they weren’t getting the same treatment as some BLM [Black Lives Matter] protestors even though they were on federal grounds and committing felonies left and right.”

The historical pro-Trump riot that day was proved fatal with the death of five people, and an officer who would later suicide in the days following the riots he was on duty for.

Beginning with Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after being beat and crushed by the right-wing rioters had collapsed in his office division after being attacked; he had served the Capitol Police force since 2008, according to the New York Times.

Next is Alishi Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran and staunch Trump supporter who was shot in the neck after breaking and entering into the Capitol building through a window.

Two pro-Trump rioters, Kevin Greeson, 55, and Rosanne Boyland, 34 died during the raid; Greeson died from a heart attack as a result of high blood pressure, and Boyland died from being trampled by the group attacking the Capitol.

Another Capitol Police officer, Howard Liebengood died by suicide four days after the mob attack, he was on duty on the day of the raid.

After the rioters were cleared from the building, lawmakers worked into the early hours of the morning and set-in stone Biden’s presidential win.

The rest of the week after the attacks, American lawmakers have continued to call for the resignation and removal of republican senators and representatives who supported the overturn of election results and followed Trump’s rhetoric, most notably, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

Following the historic attack, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN 5th district) introduced articles of impeachment for the removal of President Trump from office, which would eventually pass, making him the first US president to be impeached twice.

As the impeachment trial moves to the Senate after Trump is out of office, Americans will await to see if he will be held accountable for his supporters’ attack on the nation’s most prestigious center of democracy.

The attacks on January 6 will leave a stain on the young nation’s history, marking both the day blood was shed and the day the Capitol building was breached for only the second time since the 1800s.