Special to IFN

Members of Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley are planning a demonstration on Tuesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the violent insurrection in Washington, D.C. The event is scheduled for 12 noon on U.S. Highway 70 near Catawba Valley Community College.

ICCV members will be holding signs “reminding passing motorists of the treasonous activities aided and abetted by President Trump five years ago when he incited a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol,” the organization said in a news release.

In the five years since January 6, 2021, the president has described the insurrection that resulted in the deaths of several people and injuries to multiple Capitol Police officers as a “day of love.” On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 individuals who had been convicted of federal charges, including those who had been convicted of violently assaulting officers of the peace.

“We will be standing peacefully because five years ago today, the 45th president instigated a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and our elected representatives by more than 1,500 people who called themselves patriots,” ICCV Chair Deb Johnson said. 

ICCV describers itself as a non-partisan grassroots organization working to uphold the U.S. Constitution, strengthen democracy and, through its mutual-aid efforts, help provide for “the least of these.”