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The clips are all taken from a 40-minute video by John Sullivan, aka Jayden X. (He was clearly into this, by the way, assisting and cheering along. But document he did.) I'll taken some clips from his video. [thread]
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/09/facebook-posts/facebook-posts-wrongly-claim-left-wing-activist-an/ https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-activist-claims-he-was-just-documenting-us-capitol-insurgence
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/09/facebook-posts/facebook-posts-wrongly-claim-left-wing-activist-an/ https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-activist-claims-he-was-just-documenting-us-capitol-insurgence
1) The gates are broken down. (0:10. this is the approximate time in the original 40 video, to give a sense of passage of time.)
2) The barbarians storm the walls. This is an unbelievable scene. I think the last time so many stormed the walls of civilization was 1453
"Tear gas. Mace."
"Woo Woo"
"It's ours. It's ours. Come on. Let's go. Listen to at 'em all back there. Fucking patriots." (2:50)
"Tear gas. Mace."
"Woo Woo"
"It's ours. It's ours. Come on. Let's go. Listen to at 'em all back there. Fucking patriots." (2:50)
3) "They starting shooting at us."
"Rubber bullet."
"Who cares. Just a rubber bullet. It does hurt. No reason to run."
"I've got one. Yeah dude."
It takes very little force to turn people back. That said, there are hundreds if not thousands behind them. (5:20)
"Rubber bullet."
"Who cares. Just a rubber bullet. It does hurt. No reason to run."
"I've got one. Yeah dude."
It takes very little force to turn people back. That said, there are hundreds if not thousands behind them. (5:20)
4) The building is breached. Entry is made. (6:08)
5) Cops pushing people out. It's actually not that hard to do. It looks like many of these people have never been a fight. (8 min)
6) Five or six cops holding a line against many. The manage to hold the line for about 3 minutes. (10 min)
7) Another breach, after about 3 minutes of holding off the mob as injured colleagues are being carried past. (12:30)
8) In terms of potential bomb planters, I'd try and ID and investigate these two guys. They seem very much on a mission. And they're wearing gas masks. (picture from 13:26)
9) Some time passes. There's just some sightseeing. It sure is a beautiful building. Too bad they don't seem to know the Capitol is a public building and normally gives free tours. (15:30)
10) After ~6 min of wondering and gawking, the crowd reaches another line of maybe 10 cops. There's some more brass here. They stop the crowd. But our man is correct: this mob won't be stopped. Police seem unwilling to use force. Policy or self preservation I do not know. (19:00)
11) More time passes. ~7 minutes later, during which time the crowd has been held back by police. But then the mob surges forward once again. (27:00)
12) At this point this reminds of Sleep No More. Our man is trying to figure out where the main action is. Oh, hey, look, over there! (32:00)
13) And then we get to the scene of the shooting. Where a cop from behind the barricade fires one shot at the first person who breaches. That kills a woman and 1 shot seems to end things. The video goes for 5 more minutes (and I've posted the after shooting before) (35:00) (End)
The full video is here:
Here is another video of the Battle for the Capitol. https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346899257694019585
@darkblue714 are these DCMP or Capitol Police? I suspect the former, because they can fight.
