Hollywood is speaking out after protesters broke the Capitol on Wednesday.
The chaos led to one protester being fatally shot when lawmakers burst inside and the evacuations began quickly, the Metro Police Department in Washington DC told Fox News.
Violence erupted as lawmakers were ratifying the votes of the Electoral College calling for the election of Pres. Joe Biden won it. They were told to put on gas masks and block inside while law enforcement officers tried to restore order.
Celebrities immediately took to Twitter when the shocking scenes unfolded, with Ashton Kutcher taking a tweet on Wednesday for people to “support the peaceful transition of power !!!!!!!!”
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“It’s a patriot!” he added.
Pop star Pink told her fans she was ‘ashamed’ of the events that took place on Capitol Hill, writing“As an American citizen, and the daughter of two veterans, and the sister of another, I’m ashamed of what’s going on in Washington. Hypocrisy, shame, embarrassment. Unpatriotic hypocritical sheep drinking poison Cabbage aid. It is’ a sad day for America. ‘
Leah Remini insisted that those who stormed the Capitol were ‘cowards’ and said she was ‘praying for our country’.
“Sick and saddened by what I see on so many levels,” added the actress. “Cowards. Shameful. We’ll get through this. #CapitolRiots.”
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Furthermore, ‘The Patriot’ actor Jason Isaacs was among those who pointed to the double standard associated with protests surrounding the death of George Floyd on the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25 and which took place on Wednesday.
“Last June, peaceful protesters were beaten and gassed near the Capitol,” he said. tweeted. “Today, Trump thugs stormed the building unopposed, directly from a rally where he deliberately inflamed their violence with lies. May he be washed away forever by the U-turn of history.”
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown expressed Isaacs’ sentiments in her own tweet.
The U.S. Capitol police pulled up guns as protesters tried to break into the U.S. Capitol House on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Washington. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
“And now they can all just leave. Is that what I see?” Brown wrote. “They violated the Capitol, went into their offices and left with Lord knowing what provoked state secrets and violence and yet: no arrests. None. WOW.”
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Meanwhile, Sarah Jessica Parker, ‘Sex and the City’ star, lamented the news on Wednesday, saying as far as she was concerned, the Capitol offense was “no surprise”.
“Unimaginable. Shameful. Shocking. But no surprise,” she wrote, “So much to hold responsible. You know who you are. You have rejected the violent, divisive, cruel rhetoric. You made excuses. Cowards He / you are not leaders. We will try to rebuild. You will try to live by yourself. ‘
An emphatic Karlie Kloss did not invent words when she expressed her disappointment over the exhibition in the Capitol on Wednesday.
“Accepting the results of a legitimate democratic election is patriotic. Refusing to do so and inciting violence is anti-American,” the Project Runway judge said. tweeted.
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Apart from those in Hollywood, many lawmakers also on Wednesday condemned the actions of protesters at the Capitol.
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report