The report also noted graffiti on the west side of the building near stands that are being constructed for the inauguration of Joe Biden this month. No major artworks were reported damaged, despite the violent demonstrations inside the building by Trump supporters that took the Capitol Police nearly four hours to quell. A 19th-century marble bust of former President Zachary Taylor was defaced with a red substance that looked like blood. “Wednesday was a difficult day for our campus,” the architect of the Capitol, J Brett Blanton, said in a statement. “As the Architect of the Capitol mission calls us to serve, preserve and inspire, it was particularly hard to watch the scene unfold.”© 2020 New York Times News Service

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