Posted on 01/06/2021 11:29:18 AM PST by Red Badger
Hundreds of Trump supporters breached security barricades and stormed up to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as both chambers of Congress convened to affirm the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 election Wednesday afternoon.
Thousands had traveled from out of state to gather in Washington in protest of the election, which President Trump and his allies have maintained was fraudulent.
Things appeared to carry on peacefully earlier in the day, but as the joint session of Congress kicked off in the early afternoon, a large group of individuals appeared to storm through outer barricades surrounding the Capitol building, where lawmakers deliberated inside.
Video posted to Twitter by Washington Post reporter Rebecca Tan showed Trump supporters approaching the rear of the building.
Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the bui… https://t.co/3VEdyaOR4r — Rebecca Tan (@Rebecca Tan)1609956048.0
Then, BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaeffer posted video as the group reached the outside of the building and were confronted by police.
"Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun," he tweeted. "This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can't stop them."
(Content Warning: Video contains vulgar language)
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are at… https://t.co/ldYHmHplxV — ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ELIJAH SCHAFFER)1609956659.0
More video from the scene posted on social media showed a large group of individuals continuing to wrestle with law enforcement outside the U.S. Capitol.
Trump supporters got into fights with the Capitol Police after they tried to enter the Capitol Building. https://t.co/ZQjn3fOVtL — Julio Rosas (@Julio Rosas)1609959009.0
Politico's Melanie Zanona reported that the Madison building on Capitol Hill was evacuated as a result of the increasingly hostile protests.
DEVELOPING: The Madison building on Capitol Hill is being evacuated, sources tell me & @sarahnferris — Melanie Zanona (@Melanie Zanona)1609956961.0
It is unclear at this point whether the storming of the Capitol was a coordinated or impromptu event. Interestingly, a paper notice found in the National Mall indicated that "a national militia" was being organized to "defend the Constitution and the Republic." However, there is no evidence connecting the movement from the crowd with the notice.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Their showing the lady shot now.
Bet they cover up speak this through out the night
CNN should get it to. It needs to be stormedm
Very True!
boy are you clueless.
My father came from a communist.
Even twenty years ago, I never would have thought I’d see the day that I’d stop watching network news because it’s one wicked lie after another. Just like what people living under dictatorships have to live with.
And also the fact that the communist-revolutionary, North Vietnam-supporting, Weather Underground openly admitted to bombing the US Capitol!
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In 1954, a group of Puerto Rican separatists got onto the House floor and opened fire with handguns. Five members of the House were wounded in the attack, including Rep. Alvin Bentley (Mich.). He's in the photo below, being carried out by pages.
Kent State
They’ll cover this up
A free press is necessary. These big corporations need to be broken back up.
Chrissy Wallace is a lying sack of pig shiite................
people still outside capital doors
allegedly...
pipe bomb discovered at DC RNC... DNC evacuated after suspicious package received today.
national guard from virginia and maryland deployed
Yep. We gave it every shot. If blood is spilled, that is on corrupt politicians and a lying media.
riot police deployed in sacramento capital
She was armed with a Trump flag when it looks like they put a round through her neck. She looked dead to me.
Watch them attempt a Kent State reversed cover up of this lady shooting.
Wallace is a dumb ass.
PS.
All those people are now professors
cops coming out of capitol building now?
Funny how some patriots have gone kind of wobbly. If we do not have a Civil War we don’t have a country. We will never ever again win another election because they know how to do the steal and will continue to do is. The left have been emboldened by their antics by China by the mediaSNAKES and yet when we raise our voices strom our house it’s like the whole world has come to an end.. I do not wanna end up like Venezuela and it’s just around the corner! So buckle up!
She was armed with a Trump flag when it looks like they put a round through her neck. She looked dead to me.
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outrageous
They’re trotting out “seditious conspirisy” now to suppress this.
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