I’m not saying I fully blame them, because it was probably not easy not to enter the capitol building after it was breached and crowds were flooding in, but people really should have known better. Innocence level is not 100%.
What I found interesting, and please jump in and tell me if you noticed it too, but I was watching it live that day, and a lot of the video feeds showed theater style rope-lines down the middle of places like the rotunda, and the vast majority of the flag waving protesters were filling down through those lines.
First off, I would like to make the point that they were just filing through the building (most of them) and leaving. No damage, no violence.
Secondly, a question; Why did it almost seem like they were ready for the crowd???
They had rope lines set up before hand?
WTF!
I’ve been inside the capitol building more than once. It’s not off limits to the public. At least it wasn’t when I was there.
I remember seeing Capitol Hill security video the day after showing police opening doors and backing away from the crowd outside, tapping the floor with their batons, as if leading livestock, into the building. Haven’t seen it since.
And in several videos the capital police were opening the barriers and doors and waving people through - inviting them in, if you will.