We all know our job description and ran into the Frey. I first spotted the III%er flag and alot of different people in gear. Jokes about coming for congress reps was still vague. 57/
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As we make our way left off 3rd and penn, we are nearing the base of the capitol. Lots of flags and poles, people talking about dragging folks out, how they are the real winners and other violent talk. As I get close to steps I see the barricade has been moved. 58/
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By the time we got there, there were already people on the scaffolding. It was only one not both, but it was still like what..... they got through with little to no resistance? Any time I've been to a capitol protests there are HUNDREDS of cops surrounding the building. 59/
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I only saw 11 on this side when I got there. People started chanting "fight for trump" egging the crowd on. This plus the fee people saying charge definatly helped pump up crowd to take action. 60/
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There were several people from Florida with a law enforcement motor cycle club I saw hanging around gathering. Couldn't get a good face pic through people on barricade. There was several stacks of chairs behind me that folks climbed on. 61/
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One of the surreal moments as crowd is screaming in joy that they made it this far. There were several people talking about hanging Pelosi, using guillotine, and firing squads. I do honestly think if they had gotten hands on a congress person they would've died. 62/
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Around this time, cops were posted but no mutions had been fired to my knowledge. A person opened the stacks of chairs and started handing them out. Later used to deflect rounds from police help people over fence, and for people to rest. 64/
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Police Rush down and arrest one person who climbed up the left side near the scaffolding. Later this was over taken by the crowd. 65/
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This is the video of the crowd taking that left side. The cloud you see in the beginning was thrown by cops and could've been one of many flash bands or gas canisters. I do not recall. Both were used. 66/
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More video of how many police are on the west side of capitol, folks climbing, and "stop the steal chants" 67/
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Video of gas, flash bangs, and other uses of force on the right side from afar. Half way through you can hear person next to me talk about how there isn't much room on ledge. Threatens to make me get down if I do it again. 68/
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Crowd of fash out here with alot of America first flags, yelling "traitors" to the police using force as they seige the capitol. 69/
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Some sort of yellow smoke was throw down. I didn't see which side tossed it but things were coming from both sides. In one of these videos you here me talk about how the crowd brought thier own flash bangs. 70/
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As the pepper spray was being deployed some of the trumpers came back to get thier eyes rinsed. They were using milk, not water, no coolers, and rubbing thier eyes. All the things not to do. 71/
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Police launch a gas can not too far from us into a crowd of unprepared people while I have my gas mask on not feeling a thing. I take off into the crowd several times to recover spent munitions. 72/
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Here is the beginning of the milk rinse. Unfortantly the flags made it hard to document. Never use milk it will curdle. 73/
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This is the moment the left flank collapsed. You can see the bright blue capitol police helmets in the back retreating. Crowd makes a push. 74/
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Here is a picture of the chairs being used to hop over Barrier that the crowd was rushing. I never went past this barrier. 75/
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It was another surreal moment seeing folks climb the scaffolding with capitol dome in the back ground. I still can't process it all. Folks bring a giant American flag to drop from the top. 76/
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Chants of "Upside down" being chanted, either this is in relation to the flag being a symbol of distress, or about politicians. I couldn't figure it out. 77/
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"We the people" as they continue to flood the upper level that was just seized from police. 78/
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I did end up recovered on spent munitions that has expelling white spicy gas before someone poured water on it. Not exactly sure which one this is but it came from police. do you have any idea? It's maybe up to 2inches wide by 3/4 deep, no visible marks. 79/
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Within the crowd I saw the same sticker as earlier that was posted at BLM plaza by a person wearing an oathkeepeers hoodie with the punisher logo on front. 80/
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Shortly after all this, we waiting for about 45 mins and got reports of people getting inside. Signal had disappeared totally almost as soon as we got to capitol. and I all went away to go get some signal and try and upload. 81/
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When we got out of the mob, we realized we could go get something to drink and lunch. We heading to a place near by and hung out for a bit. Chuck and I wondered if we should head back or stay safe. As we ate we heard FBI was enroute and that 2 pipe bombs were found 82/
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Those pipe bombs were inside of the RNC and DNC offices. The word we got was one was neutralized. The wording was very particular so we rushed back into the crowd. On our way over, mentioned the North/east side were being gassed,sprayed ect. So we ended up there 83/
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When we made it close, I was putting my mask on. People were talking about how prepared I was, and to give them hell. It was kinda weird. These trumpers were thankful inwas documenting and thought I was on thier side. I was wearing all black. 84/
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This is what I saw as I walked up. A large precense of cops including a ton of fatigues scattered within the hi-vis MPD uniform. 85/ I tried to find while chuck and I stayed tight. We use the buddy system should anything go down, we can stay safe. 85/
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Chants of "fuck the blue" and talk about how they arnt antifa and they just wanna take over "that" in reference of the capitol. 86/
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Signal was coming back intermittently at this point. Wasn't too terrible but definatly rough. Just after this I worked my way to east side where I saw a crowd gathering around some cameras. 87/
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Part one of when the trump supporting fash mob destroyed MSM cameras easily with 100k in equipment. Dumped water on gear, jump up and down use poles, threaten to light on fire, and even told Asian reporter to go back to China. 88/
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Part 2: "Wanna see rough, we will show you rough" " this is what you get, traitors get the fucking rope" only a fee things I heard through the crowd Wednesday. 89/
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After the cameras were smashed people walked over to the power boxes for the main stream news sources and started figuring out which they like and which they don't. They tried to destroy them so they couldn't be used later. 90/
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The crowd then started jumping from camera crew to camera crew trying to figure out which news orgs were "good" and which were "fake" I didn't see them attack another set of cameras on this side. Night fall was coming quick. 91/
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More videos of them going camera to camera, "who you with" "no more fake news" and other sayings commonly heard on the right. 92/
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At this point I had lost but was with . We made our way back to the west side where I started my day. As we turned corner we heard a single flashbang. The cops had retaken the first set of scaffolding and were using it as an elevated firing position. 93/
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The trailers that had been on capitol grounds were occupied by trumpers/fash while they dug through them. I had a weird feeling and then saw MPD slowly coming our way. 94/
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Part one of three of MPD clearing capitol lawn on west side. At the beginning you can hear the crowd talking about how cops are there to protect them from blm. They are not use to police oppression. One protester thrown to ground, several struck by batons,and trailers cleared 95/
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Part two of three. In this footage you can see them puahbpeople down sets of stairs and hit them again. The police were very aggressive and the crowd was sooo confused. So unprepared. 96/
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Last part of first push of clearing capitol lawn. There are several people thrown into a wall pushed down stairs just being told to go faster, the usual high aggression of MPD crowd control. 97/
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