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Business owners are taking precautions to prepare for further unrest, in the wake of chaos on Capitol Hill.
On Wednesday, Congress temporarily halted its certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory after pro-Trump extremists, calling themselves "insurrectionists," pushed past police to successfully breach the U.S. Capitol building. One woman was shot and killed by Capitol Police, and canisters of tear gas filled the rotunda throughout the afternoon. The resulting tumult led many area businesses to seek the aid of private security firms, as the potential violence after dark--and even prolonged days of rioting--reached a fever pitch around midday.
All day long, Rudo Robinson's phone rang off the hook. He's the CEO of Trust Security & Fire Services, one of the country's fastest-growing private security firms, based just south of Washington D.C. in Fort Washington, Maryland. Local business owners on the other end of the phone asked him and other firms like his for security guards to help prevent potential property destruction once the mob cleared out of the Capitol building.
Wednesday's events were troublesome for plenty of business owners outside the nation's capital, too. Check out our complete coverage of how the chaos on Capitol Hill is affecting entrepreneurs nationwide: |
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