Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., spoke on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the role they played in the Capitol insurrection.
Murphy said the Jan. 6 committee has learned that there were “serious concerns at Twitter” on Jan. 5, 2021, about “anticipated violence” on Jan. 6. A former, anonymous Twitter employee testified before the Jan. 6 committee that on Jan. 5, 2021, they sent a message to a colleague that said something akin to “when people are shooting each other tomorrow, I will try and rest in the knowledge that we tried.”
The witness said they believed that without intervention, people would die on Jan. 6, and that they attempted to ring the alarm on this issue internally at Twitter for months.
“On Jan. 5, I realized no intervention was coming. As hard as I had tried to create one or implement one, there was nothing and we were at the whims — at the mercy — of a violent crowd that was locked and loaded,” the former Twitter employee testified.
In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.
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