A Trump-supporting nurse has been fired from her job after it was discovered that she participated in the Capitol riots.
On Wednesday, January 6, a number of Trump-supporting protestors stormed the Capitol building and interrupted the affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US Presidential Election.
The riot ultimately left five dead and forced politicians and journalists to evacuate the Capitol Building en masse after the mob clashed violently with police forces at the scene.
Per a report by Newsweek, nurse Lori Vinson was fired from her job at Ascension St Vincent Hospital on January 8, after she shared several now-deleted videos of the incident on her Facebook page. Vinson has worked at the hospital (located in Evansville, Illinois) since 2005.
In a recent interview with local news station WFIE-TV, Vinson - who hails from Morganville, Kentucky - was unrepentant about her role in the riot, claiming that she did not participate in any violence, theft, or vandalism during the protest, stating:
"I participated in none of that. I would never participate in that.
"I hope that is something I remember and say: 'I'm glad I was a part of that 30 years from now.'
"I was there for a peaceful protest and that's what I was doing."
In a separate interview with The Courier & Press, she reiterated that she would do it all over again if she had the chance, stating:
"We were going there for the Stop the Steal rally, and the big overall plan was we were going to leave from there and walk to the Capitol building. But I had no idea what to expect when we got there.
"We just walked up the steps and walked right in. There was no resistance. I would have felt it was wrong if they were telling me: 'Don’t enter.'
"There was never law enforcement there that said you can’t enter here, and if we had ever met any of that resistance, we would have never gone in.
She continued: "No one told us to leave, even the police. The police were, I don’t even want to say there was a police presence. They were interacting with people.
"People were still coming in the doors as we were there. Cops were standing at different doors, none of them saying: 'You can't come in here.'
"[My employers] said I admittedly participated in criminal behavior at a high-profile event. It's hurtful that they didn’t listen to my side of it.
"Some of those people know me and know that in a million years, I would never be involved with rioting or anything like that."
A number of other pro-Trump participants in the riots have since lost jobs as a result of their actions, or have been arrested and charged by the FBI.
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