This Army Ranger-turned-Congressman was last out of the House chamber during the Capitol riots [View all]

[douglas9]

t’s been over a decade since Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) felt the need to prepare to fight his way out of a situation.

The last time he felt that way, Crow told CNN on Thursday morning, he was an Army Ranger in Afghanistan. This time, Crow was doing his job as a U.S. congressman in the House chamber when a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building.

Crow told the Denver Post that while police evacuated people on the floor of the House chamber, people sitting in the gallery “got trapped for like 20 minutes as the rioters stormed the stairwells and doors.”

“I got into Ranger mode a little bit,” he told the Denver Post. “Most of the members didn’t know how to use the emergency masks, so I was helping them get their emergency masks out of the bags and helped instruct a bunch of folks on how to put it on and how to use it.”

Crow said on CNN on Thursday that for the first time since he was in service, he felt “there was a possibility I would have to fight my way out.”

He said he “went around and started locking” doors in the chamber, moving other lawmakers away from the doors, and directing them to “remove their pins so they weren’t identifiable in case the mob did break through.”

“I had a pen in my pocket that I could use as a weapon, I was looking for other weapons as well and I was coordinating with the capitol police to try to find a way out to for us,” Crow said.


https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jason-crow-army-ranger-capitol-riots/