Posted on 01/11/2021 7:33:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Warning: Story contains graphic content.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pro-Trump rally near the White House on Wednesday turned into a riot on the steps and inside the halls of the Capitol building.
I made my way over to the Capitol building, the site of many protests, in the afternoon after I was told large numbers of people were starting to go there since members of Congress were getting ready to certify President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the November election.
Wanting to save time, and my legs, I took the Metro to the Capitol South station. I walked towards the west side, which faces the Lincoln Memorial, and could hear screaming and metal banging. I saw people tearing away the construction fencing that is only meant to section off areas ahead of the inauguration. Trump supporters easily overwhelmed the small number of Capitol Police officers, who were not in riot gear, and go onto the steps of the Capitol. People then made their way up the scaffolding with officers chasing close behind.
Thousands of people were now at the Capitol building and officers could not hold back the rioters who were fighting back attempts to push them away. Projectiles were thrown at officers, mace and bear spray were heavily used from both sides. Officers on the upper balcony were shooting pepper balls at the crowd. I was hit in the hand and upper bicep with pepper balls.
Eventually, the officers fell back because they did not have the numbers needed to hold the defensive line they had established. Rioters breached the complex in multiple entrances and exits. I followed a crowd that was making their way over to the east side of the building. A mass of people were on the main steps that lead towards the Rotunda and were trying to squeeze into the narrow doorways.
I was able to make my way inside the Rotunda and people were milling about at first, but the chaos started once again when Capitol police and D.C. Metro officers started to push everyone out through the one exit. This created a very dangerous situation. Everyone was packed really tight against each other with nowhere to go because people outside the building were still trying to push their way in. People were falling on top of each other and those unlucky enough were starting to be trampled on. It was getting impossible to breathe to the point where I thought I was going to die from suffocation right inside the Rotunda. I knew that if I fell down, I was not going to get back up.
I was able to inch my way towards the doorway. I locked eyes with a man and screamed, "PULL ME OUT!" He grabbed my ballistic vest and yanked me out.
Once outside, I collected myself and continued to film law enforcement's efforts to secure the Capitol building. More CS gas and pepper spray were used. The situation became hairy for members of the media as a mob ran off reporters and destroyed camera equipment.
Things mostly calmed down on the east side once the 6:00 p.m. curfew drew closer. The police now outnumbered the Trump supporters who stayed behind. I left Washington, D.C. via the Metro to appear on Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson's and Shannon Bream's shows.
In a lot of ways, it was just a surreal moment in my career of covering protests and riots. While it was contained to the Capitol Hill area, almost nothing can top the significance of rioters breaching the building that houses one of the United States' central pillars of government.
In addition to many officers being injured, Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick died from the injuries he sustained after defending the Capitol while Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by police after trying to enter the Speaker's Lobby.
Townhall's Frontline Footage of Capitol Building Riots
Right. When I watched the Townhall video I saw a lot of BLM Antifa. Over the last 9 months I have watched hundreds of hours of BLM Antifa riots. They were leading the charge on January 6 of mostly unsuspecting MAGA and they used BLM Antifa tactics.
“very odd set of events.”
Just like all the odd events in the election.
Just like all the odd events in the “Russia investigation.”
Just like all the odd events in the impeachment hoax.
NONE of them ever get an honest investigation.
Yes, and now they have a dystopian "Wall", a big beautiful wall around Congress. Which Hunger Games character should we correlate with her.
Btw someone responded to Dinesh yesterday on Twitter that even the Proud Boys didn't show (other than their leader, time for a change their), they knew it was a set up.
Yes. . .just like antifa and blm do.
And the night of the trouble, a fox news reporter was reporting at night from the scene and he was a black guy, wearing all black, too include black gloves and wearing a black Do-Rag/Wave-Cap. . .worn by street thugs. Saw NO
Press” identifying logos, or even a fox logo.
What’s with that?
Maybe he was trolling to provoke a response thereby “proving” Trump supporters are violent racists.
“there was no evidence of election fraud of the magnitude that would have changed the outcome of the election”
. . .It is ELECTION INTERGRITY that is most important.
Not being a lawyer, my days have been filled getting working definitions of “ripe”, “standing”, and “latches.”
The world is tilted far off center when Andrew Cuomo’s characterization of the supreme court seems to make sense.
Drawing upon the philosophy of Whoppie Goldberg, when does “election fraud” become fraud-fraud?
And what Trumpers come to a rally wearing helmets and full-on gas masks?
Trumpers don’t.
antifa/blam do.
On another site, I heard it called “Pixelnacht.”
Notice: The helmets, masks, tinted glasses, goggles, face masks, gas masks and spray paint.
These are ANTIFA and BLM, not MAGA.
The DC police knew in advance, and congressional security did zip to prepare, when congressional security answers to Pelosi and McConnell. This was a set up to stop the testimony from going forward, plain and simple.
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Agreed. POTUS began his speech @ 12pm. It’s about a 45 min walk to the capital. The capital was breeched before his speech finished. The breech happened at least an hr. before MAGA crowd could have arrived in the general vicinity.
Timeline also proves that the speech was not in any way inciting anything.
Do you suppose any of them were listening to the President on their cell phones or other portable devices?
Tony Shaffer
@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y
The evidence is clear -
@NPR
posting a story about the Capitol seige at 9:30 AM, the reports of pipe bombs at 11:45 AM - both before the President spoke... wake up...
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Raheem Kassam
@RaheemKassam
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I agree. I was walking past the Capitol and flash bangs were already going off and this was before Trump’s speech had ended.
8:38 AM · Jan 11, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/T_S_P_O_O_K_Y/status/1348625378106081280?s=20
It seems all of the GOP and townhall writers are turning on what was a counter coup. I consider the so called rioters patriots. And the capitol police the stasi that got in the way.
Should I feel sorry for capitol police killed in this incident? Is this not war? War against the usurpers?
Yes, you should respect and honor those officers. Yes we have a war, but not a war as you describe. We are a constitutional movement infused with a belief in the power of law and order. What happened at the capital last Wednesday is not who we are. We are better than that. They were not us!!!!
Pelosi and the Left wing media never let a good crisis go to waste!!
The douchebag at the 3-minute mark pushing his buddy into the cop from behind.
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That is what antifa’s job is. Start trouble then back away
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Shortly after the ensuing melee, he is seen reeling from a face full of mace.
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LOL, good!
Exactly
They had to be there before the speech was over.
Fits with my theory that it was a set up by the Deep State/Dems. Also, there have been reports that the FBI knew about antifa's plans a week or more before the attack
So they LET it happen. DEEP STATE!
Who does these things? Trump supporters, or antifa/blm?
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antifa/blm, not Trump supporters
I thought AP decided not to use the word riot anymore.
I read someone else said that, probably while commenting.
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