John Lewis Doc Filmmaker Dawn Porter Reacts to Capitol Riots: "This is Harder Without Him"(Guest Column)
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hollywoodreporter.comLast Wednesday afternoon, I was working at my desk when my 19-year-old son came out of his room. "Are you watching?" he asked me.
I wasn’t, so I didn’t know that a swarm of violent protestors had breached the walls of the Capitol and were storming throughout the building.
I’d been there many times in my life, first as an intern for Congressman Al Swift, who in 1993 introduced the motor voter law that allowed voters to register at DMVs; and then as a young lawyer, where I would walk from my house across the grounds to sit in at Congressional hearings.
The last time I was in that building was to film the swearing-in of the 116th Congress for my documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble.
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