The Most Surreal Photographs of the Invasion of the Capitol

Unprecedented violence erupted in Washington D.C. as Donald Trump supporters stopped the ratification of Joe Biden's victory.

6.1.21

In a spectacle unlike any in American history, armed marauders rampaged through the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as police helplessly stood by and Donald Trump pointedly declined to say anything about what his supporters were doing. Getty photographers Win McNamee and Drew Angerer captured startling images of the scene:

Meanwhile, live streams captured other bizarre scenes: