Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened
January 6, five years later
Jamie Thompson
Jamie Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation. Her reporting on policing in Dallas won an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in writing, and her article “American Cowardice” won the 2025 National Magazine Award for reporting.
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