{"id":149684,"date":"2021-01-08T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nj-rep-andy-kim-helps-clean-up-wreckage-left-by-capitol-rioters\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:22:15","slug":"nj-rep-andy-kim-helps-clean-up-wreckage-left-by-capitol-rioters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nj-rep-andy-kim-helps-clean-up-wreckage-left-by-capitol-rioters\/","title":{"rendered":"#NJ Rep. Andy Kim helps clean up wreckage left by Capitol rioters"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NJ Rep. Andy Kim helps clean up wreckage left by Capitol rioters<\/strong>”
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Water bottles, clothing, Trump flags, even a U.S. flag littered the ground inside the U.S. Capitol after a mob backing President Donald Trump ransacked the building.<\/p>\n

New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim walked amid the mess shortly after voting to certify Joe Biden\u2019s victory over Trump \u2014 and felt the weight of the day wearing on him \u2014 when something motivated him to clean up the debris.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just really affected emotionally. I felt this kind of heightened, kind of supercharged kind of patriotism that I just felt take over,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

It was then he noticed police officers putting pizza boxes in trash bags, so he asked for one, too, and began cleaning up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see something you love that\u2019s broken you want to fix it. I love the Capitol. I\u2018m honored to be there,\u201d he said. \u201cThis building is extraordinary and the rotunda in particular is just awe-inspiring. How many countless generations have been inspired in that room?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really broke my heart and I just felt compelled to do something. \u2026 What else could I do?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The image of Kim crouched down clearing away litter bookended a violent, historic day that saw an angry mob smash through police lines, break windows and wrench open doors as they sieged the building, not long after Trump said at a rally they should show \u201cstrength\u201d and fight against Congress\u2019 certification of Biden\u2019s win.<\/p>\n

Kim, a second-term Democrat from a district Trump won twice, wasn\u2019t looking for publicity, according to one colleague who came upon him and didn\u2019t recognize him at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was 1 in the morning,\u201d said fellow New Jersey Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski. \u201cThere were a couple National Guardsman and I noticed somebody on his hands and knees leaning under a bench to pick something up and it was Andy all by himself, just quietly removing debris and putting it in a plastic bag. He was clearly not doing it for an audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was for me the most poignant moment of the long night.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Kim \u201crepresents the very best of New Jersey and our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom MacArthur, the former GOP representative from New Jersey that Kim beat in a close race in 2018, was heartened by his successor\u2019s action. It was MacArthur who had helped shepherd the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act through the House and who stood alongside Trump and others at the White House to celebrate, though the effort failed. Kim ran in part on the popularity of Barack Obama\u2019s signature health care law.<\/p>\n

Kim represents the 3rd District, which stretches from the Philadelphia suburbs along the Delaware River in the west, across New Jersey\u2019s pine barrens to seaside Ocean County.<\/p>\n

He launched his campaign in 2017, returning to live in the southern New Jersey town he grew up in after a career in Washington and abroad.<\/p>\n

A University of Chicago graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Kim served from 2013 until 2015 as the Iraq director for the Obama administration\u2019s National Security Council.<\/p>\n

Before that, he was the Iraq director at the Pentagon within the defense secretary\u2019s office. He also previously served as a civilian adviser to general<\/a>s David Petraeus and John Allen in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The son of Korean immigrant parents, he became the first Asian American to represent New Jersey in Congress after he was elected in 2018.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he reflected on how he, a person of color, was cleaning up after people who waved white supremacist symbols like the Confederate flag during the melee. He said he hadn\u2019t considered race at the time.<\/p>\n

But he thought for a moment and added: \u201cIt\u2019s so hard because we don\u2019t look at each other and see each other as Americans first, whether it\u2019s race or ethnicity or religion or political party that\u2019s getting in the way of us being able to have that shared identity that forged our country and is necessary for us to be able to continue.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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