Chris Shields remembers watching the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol from his D.C. office and texting his friends still on the Hill.
They shared their disbelief and collectively wondered whether they should leave the city, Shields, a former staffer who left Congress in 2009, recalled Thursday afternoon from the eastern edge of the National Mall.
In front of him stood an installation, of unknown provenance, that featured a wooden desk (painted bronze), topped with a phone, a name plate reading “Nancy Pelosi,” and a large, sculpted pile of poop.
