The photos showed a shattered glass table, overturned furniture and debris strewn across an office floor.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio's senior senator from Cleveland, posted the pictures on Twitter Wednesday. The Democrat said he took the photos of the damage on Jan. 7, a day after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building and clashed with law enforcement.
"This is the first time I’m sharing my photos from January 6th," Brown tweeted. "I took these exactly six months ago - the morning after the insurrection. This is what I saw in the Capitol."
The office in the photos wasn't yet occupied by Brown and his staff on Jan. 7. He would move into the space two months later in March, according to a statement sent out by his office. When asked by The Enquirer, his office didn't provide details of whose office it was at the time or why Brown hadn't shared the photos earlier.
Ohio's other Senator, Terrace Park Republican Rob Portman, didn't mark the six-month anniversary with a tweet. But both Portman and Brown backed initial measures to establish an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riots. That committee was never created after it didn't garner enough support from Senate Republicans.
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