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BREAKING: Hundreds of Trump supporters breach barricades, fight with police outside US Capitol ... Area has been evacuated
https://www.theblaze.com ^ | January 06, 2021 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: utford
Somebody on CNN (US Capitol and Historical Society?) made the claim that the Capitol building hadn’t been breached since 1814 before today...

Several people at Fox News have been saying the same BS.

501 posted on 01/06/2021 2:31:21 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: SteveH

If Capitol security deliberately allowed provocateurs to enter the Capitol complex in order to create some sympathy for Congress...

That woman’s blood is on their hands.


502 posted on 01/06/2021 2:32:02 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: SteveH

that looks like it felt good


503 posted on 01/06/2021 2:32:20 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ETL

It isn’t bull.

Those doors were left unsecured.

Why


504 posted on 01/06/2021 2:32:43 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla

No, not sympathy...

To give Congress cover in order to conduct their vote off site and/ or in secret...?


505 posted on 01/06/2021 2:34:09 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: SaveFerris
People..don't make yourselves as sheep.

sheep666aa-zpsn0mq7kct

The wolves are all about, keep your head on a swivel.

506 posted on 01/06/2021 2:35:24 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax

I definitely do try to stay alert. Especially these days.

Interesting times.


507 posted on 01/06/2021 2:37:43 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Brown Deer

That’s what I thought of too they were everywhere.


508 posted on 01/06/2021 2:43:52 PM PST by NWFree
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To: mewzilla

Looks like the shooting is an overreaction but we will see.


509 posted on 01/06/2021 2:44:56 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: All

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/national-guard-capitol-army.html

Defense and administration officials said it was Vice President Mike Pence, not President Trump, who approved the order to deploy the D.C. National Guard. It was unclear why the president, who incited the protesters to storm the Capitol and who is still the commander in chief, did not give the order.


510 posted on 01/06/2021 2:46:28 PM PST by SteveH
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To: bray

I don’t think the shooting was deliberate.

I do think the doors being left unsecured WAS a deliberate act that led to that woman’s shooting.


511 posted on 01/06/2021 2:47:01 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Brown Deer

Thanks for that!

I figured most of the more serious stuff was being done by anarcho-communists like Antifa posing as rightwingers.


512 posted on 01/06/2021 2:47:02 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: SteveH

...so, has pence pulled a 25A move on trump now?


513 posted on 01/06/2021 2:47:18 PM PST by SteveH
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To: mewzilla

Joe Biden Reno.


514 posted on 01/06/2021 2:48:52 PM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: rarestia
Do you honestly think the levers of control in this country are going to fall to this?

What do you think its going to take to assure free and fair elections?

515 posted on 01/06/2021 2:49:40 PM PST by Kazan
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To: mewzilla

It’s ‘bull’ that the Capitol had never been breached before.

Communist groups in the 60s were all over its grounds, and even set a bomb off inside of it.


516 posted on 01/06/2021 2:49:48 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: mewzilla; All
Liberal Chrissy Wallace angrily said about an hour ago that he had been a reporter covering the Vietnam War protests and he had never once seen any of the (so-called) anti-war protesters get anywhere near the US Capitol.(in reality, they were pro-communist, anti-US military, pro-North Vietnamese, protestors)

And also the fact that the communist-revolutionary, North Vietnam-supporting, Weather Underground openly admitted to bombing the US Capitol!















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A history of attacks on the U.S. Capitol, 44 years after the Weather Underground bombing

by Philip Bump, National correspondent, Washington Post, March 2, 2015

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.

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517 posted on 01/06/2021 2:54:12 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: Sacajaweau
Trump people just do not start fights.

I am one Trump supporter fully willing to start a fight. You see, I live in Pennsylvania. Democrats and RINOs took away my right to vote thru fraud and corruption. I no longer can vote for representatives because my vote does not count. My vote has been negated by dead people, fabricated ballots, illegal aliens, and Democrats voting multiple times.

Our founding fathers fought a revolution of not having representation. I am willing to fight as well, because once Democrats and RINOs take full control of government institutions there is not a hope in hell that my vote ever counts again.

My soul is right with God. I am prepared to die for my children and grandchildren.

518 posted on 01/06/2021 2:55:12 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (See Profile: I'm giving up.)
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To: Varsity Flight

CBS “predominantly a while male crowd”


519 posted on 01/06/2021 2:55:14 PM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Kazan
What do you think its going to take to assure free and fair elections?

Honestly? A military coup.

520 posted on 01/06/2021 2:56:15 PM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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