EXCERPT:
TLAIB: “So what happened on January 6, all I could do is thank Allah that I wasn’t here. I felt overwhelming relief, and I feel bad for Alexandria, and so many of my colleagues that were here. But as I saw it, I thought to myself, thank God I’m not there. I saw the images they didn’t get to see until later. My team and I decided at that point we’d keep the death threats away, we tried to report them, to document them, keep them away from me because it paralyzed me. All I wanted to do was come here and serve the people that raised me, the people who told my mother, who only had an eighth grade education, that she deserves human dignity, people who believed in me.”