Thank you for Daily Caller audience for training at I'm Lisa Valentine and today I'm joined by Archie video director at the
Daily Caller Richie McGinnis
Who is caught up in a dangerous moment at the Capitol rotunda on January 6th at a lot of the media has mess
Richie can you tell us about that crushing and trampling that was going on in the Capitol Rotunda
Absolutely
Just a reminder really quickly basically the reason why I was in
That Capitol rotunda being forced out
Along with
The protesters and rioters
Because I had followed
A group of protesters not only into the capitol rotunda but then all the way to the house
Doors and actually outside those doors when the police
Had their guns drawn and at the other side
From their police once they
Got reinforcements were able to secure the door
Enforcer protest
Just back in the Rotunda
I'm at large group of people in there is where
This
Crush
Ensued basically police after reinforcements arrived
We're about 40 or 50 strong
And they started pushing the protesters out of the Rotunda
A problem is
That there's about maybe a 20 foot wide doorway
That leaves out of the Rotunda
And
All of the protesters were being forced out
Or bottlenecked at that door
So the situation at hand was basically
You know about a hundred or so protesters
Pushing
Back again
Police
And police were
Having a very hard time forcing protesters
Through that door to get them out
And I was actually caught
Right up at the front you know as a as a journalist covering these kind of events
You want to kind of put yourself
In between the protesters
And the
Police that you can show about side
Unfortunately
In this situation I basically became the wedge in between the two groups
We're pushing on each other
So in the footage we can cut to some of the audio
But you can hear not only the protesters pleading with police but also the police
Just pleading
No I'm just trying to go home please saying
Also complaining of being asphyxiated
And
I was caught up in the middle of it I actually at one point asked one of the officers
To take the billy club
Off of
My stomach because it was
So difficult for me to breathe and once he placed it
Further up on my
A bulletproof vest I was much
Is much easier for me to breathe
But that whole situation lasted
20 minutes
At least
And so it was a very
Kind of
Trying screens for
Not only
The police
Philosopher
Anybody was caught up in that
And in between the two groups
Because ultimately the people are caught in the middle
Just wanted to get out of there
And there was really nothing that you could do to alleviate the bushes on both sides
The police were definitely not willing to
And you can hear the pleading going on in your footage between the police and the protesters
What were people thinking was going to happen
I think a lot of people words
Just extremely worried for their own safety
You can hear one man just saying please please I can't breathe I can't breathe
And one of the other police officers
Replies I can't breathe either
And so
Given that this is lasting for about 20 minutes
You know there was a weird situation going on
Where police and protesters are kind of stuck in the same dangerous situation
And I was just extremely happy that
At least in the area that I was
Everybody seem to make it out there
Someone safely
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Thank you Lisa