I attended January 6th the Trump speech and was on
The Capitol Building during that
Mildly chaotic events January 6th after President Trump's speech
A lot of photos now this here is to give because give my
Why would you even expert testimony on the events that I experienced and witnessed that day
And it seems like the mainstream media is behemat Lee
Trying to push the idea that this was a violent event that it was
Exceptionally chaotic that
There was people just so frantic to overthrow their
Punch into the Capitol building
They only came to Washington DC for that purpose
But I hope these photos will bring new light
To what was really happening and with my
Witness testimony I hope to bring
A lot more detail
And my own opinions into the situations as they're being displayed on my screen through my own account
Now why would I be considered an expert witness no Not only was I there
What
I'm also a foreigner so I'm Canadian that means
I'm not nearly as caught up
In the Politics as the Americans are I was not getting my
My country stolen I was not having like my prime minister / presidents
Talking about the corruption I came to this because President Trump tweeted
January 6 be there will be a while
Not as a photojournalist in my weariness
Intensely but I just knew this was important
I had to go
Earnest of what
What are the climate was like I
Had a very good
Intuition that this was going to be something that
Photography and video is going to be desperately required
No I don't know why I thought
I was going to be standing there while Trump was speaking and then
He was going to drop some
Major election fraud information and the crowd was going to go wild and I was going to be there to Capture the Crown
Sounds reactions I was going to be there to capture
What happened
It stopped Hobbit I'm also aware that at 1 p.m.
They had to certify the electoral votes
In the Capitol building but I was not aware of how close that actually was to the
Beach location I was only concerned with the speech the Capitol building was not even on my mind other than
They were people in there to certify votes so my destination was not
Malevolent or malicious or damaging in any way
In fact
Throughout this entire situation in my experience there I didn't touch anything I didn't touch anyone
Did not go inside the Capitol building
I might have just said thank you for being here to a few protesters
I exchanged a business card or two with some people who are interested in seeing pictures of very very very
Photographer Adare
And
You know I might have yelled America once or twice because it's fun and that's just where the energy was but I
Capacity as an observer in order to
Just
Make sure that
These pictures are are exceptionally historic and I don't know a lot of people don't know how important
January 6th follow in the repercussions of what actually happened
Because quite frankly I don't think anybody really knows what happened that day and because of that I'm here to bring
Unique angle and why am I next witness as I said I was there and I am a professional to talk
Surfer with an exceptionally high resolution camera I use a Nikon d850
And it does it mean I just instantly immediately get amazing pictures as you'll see there's lots of blurry pictures and Pixar shots
Sideways
Because there
There were a lot of people and stuff happens very fast
And I try to match the speed sometimes don't get the picture of course but the exceptionally high resolution of this
Special
Because you'll see later in some of the pictures the detail
That can be shown about situations very very high
I'm also in the Canadian producers for 6 years so I have
Apart from other Canadian I'm a lot more exposure
Wiccans and weapons and
Dangerous situation very high-stress situations
So for example going into this I was not
Thinking
Everything was going to be peaceful because I know where emotions are high
Governments are at stake
There's a lot of people at the same
Kind of thinking
There could be tension and this is America so they have a second
Liniment and I was aware that anybody really wearing a backpack could potentially be hiding
Bags
I wasn't expecting anything to get shot but
I'm trying to put you in the idea and the sense.
I'm not just thinking we're all going to raise our hands and chanting showed
I was thinking there was a chance that there could be some violence so
We have to consider that when I approached the Capitol building for example you would say why would somebody do that it's because
There's no dangerous situation
There's no extreme tension I can be very aware of that and understand that
I'm safe and most people can get very very riled up when there are explosions going off in there tear gas
Surrounded
So
I'm trying to just tell you that I was very relaxed the whole time I could have cracked a smile at anytime
Time
And
My personal experience
I only saw a boat
Maybe four or five acts of
Violence
There was but I thought they were all Justified
So for example and some other picture there was a cop hitting a guy with a billy club
Because he was controlling the building like that just kind of make sense
People throwing tear gas that just makes sense
Right love yourself does not make sense
I parked a few blocks away from the capital and
My way in
Southern coming down the street here lots of Street vendors
Song American flags American dollars
Approach from the West temperature I'm looking
He's right here in this picture
People dressed up all tactical and stuff
There are some cops around streets of closed off
Future closed everything seems pretty calm
And it was. remember this is before Trump even spoke so the Capitol building is not an issue or even
Other than of course that they were certifying the electors
Iced mocha shorts
People walking on the street with their Flags Americans bring a lot of flags
Weather was
Pre-poll I'd say it was like
35 Fahrenheit or maybe one or two degrees Celsius there's a strong wind as you'll see in my
Pictures and let the skies flag right here is even blowing
See my pictures there was a strong wind
I was not cold at all because I do a lot of them hot method and I'm just very resistant to the cold
I have nothing to complain about but I could see and you can see people are dressed up
Showing that they were cold and this would create more stress and maybe some tea
Home faster or make them want to stay where they are
In saying that
Be cold weather
Most likely and potentially
Made this situation not as extreme
As opposed to a nice warm hot sunny day
My people
Aren't getting tired from getting wind blasted
They underdressed they probably left early or had to go find some other whatever
Or they might have been more stress
These are all important factors when you have to
I had to consider for something like this that happened
President Trump supposed to speak at 11 a.m.
And
Like I said I didn't timestamp my camera and wishes my faults so
They would have to be pretty much an exact sort of
Timestamp connection with a photo or an event for me to get the accurate time on all of these photos
Not time other than you could determine
Time elapsed between photos there was the exact time was not accurate in my camera so
I can look at
Or people just walking down normally my shooting style is if I see something like these guys walking down the street
I'll follow them or aim in the direction
And take a bunch to try and get the one I'm looking for
And
You'll see that pattern
Here's just some police they had some gates here this was on
Edge of where Trump was speaking or some sort of lawn here
Trump was speaking in the white house I think this is the White House actually right here by the sky
Salon extends this way
This is obviously not the Capitol Building there's nowhere near the Capitol building and you can see the level
Fencing they had here
Lots of cops
For the entrance and they had these small Gates
With more fencing
Engage Bynum
Example of me trying to get that shot
Trying to get the flag sticking out but I never got it
Here's everybody walking is pretty Trump speech maybe like 10
950
People doing there
Photo apps
Everybody's happy. Calm
Apologize apologize
Nobody's rushing around everybody's smiling happy taking selfies
Getting air photo-ops
Just like I'm doing
These people in their nice wacky American costumes
I was actually just following the crowd at this point and go where to go
Governance treat people with their Trump flags and
Gadsden Flags Galore the lawn of the Washington Bond
Open people just walking right up the guy selling his flags on the left side
This is the crowd at the Washington Monument now because Trump so much
Time
Before he spoke I did a little bit of sightseeing and I went to the Lincoln monument and the Korean War Memorial and just
Instead of going right into the crowd and staying there
I think I just got a couple pics
Plastic round here you can see the flags are all waving it was windy everybody's
Dress warm cuz it was gold
Big big crowd
Amazon 911 shirt
History inside of History
I'll try to make it work right
Now you get these big groups of people that were walking around
And here's the Black American flag pure black I can't remember specifically what it's for but
Mean something
There's the World War II Memorial wasn't too
Too busy I didn't see but there were groups of protesters
Call margin over to the Trump speech area
This is a huge group of people maybe like 90
All the same group right here
Remember this is around 10:30 ish still had
30 40 minutes before President Trump was supposed to speak
So I wasn't in as much of a rush to stay at the Washington Monument
Big group of people
Helicopter flying through the air as you can see there
There are a ton of people
Lots of tourists walking around this is all pre-speech lots of tourists
Whether he let me be at some news heal or something who knows
People doing their thing
More water
I didn't see protesters you anything at this point I'm really just trying to get
Pictures that I think would be good for people these American
I really like their Flags so I was taking lots of pictures of them and their flags and
Walking around
Really captures the spirit of America people throwing signs
Now some of these you'll see duplicates
Because I have gone and edited them already and they're in this folder so
Included in this is all of my originals they're unedited
Uncropped except for the ones that are obviously edited and cropped
But there's nothing missing here other than black
Photos I still didn't even delete some of the out-of-focus photos
But this whole presentation will include all of my pictures except for the ones I have to delete because they're useful
This is example of an educated versus original
Probably the original extended version
Going to the Lincoln Memorial
Around here you can see there's definitely a big crowd tons of tourists walking around it was just a
Florida people
Inside the Lincoln Memorial to my tourist thing
My favorite pictures of the day like that
I hear is the Korean War Memorial I just went over to get them really
This picture of the freedom is not free and these guys cuz I have it one of these
My room
Battery bug
Presents Trump a President Trump was due to be speaking around this time so I returned to the lodge
Washington monuments estate a bit near the back because there's some fences you could stand on
I like to sculpt
Outside of the group before I go inside to get a feeling about this fear
Is very calm just very patient as you can see
There was screens I'm pretty sure President Trump is speaking
At the White House which would have been our at the base of the White House lawn is he considered
Another set of screens here I think this was another screen
If not this is where he might have been speaking I didn't see him physically that they
I'm not sure exactly where you're speaking
We do a little Loop here
Around
Washington Monument I'm just standing up on stuff trying to get some pictures I can see the crowd was massive
Really really big crowd
And
Even this picture doesn't do it justice because there was crowd in large numbers and other places you can
How can I say
You have to go look at some estimates of
How many people attended
This means taking some pictures for people like I have it balanced I was just standing up there and people are begging me
Pass me the phones
Not class example
Captain Spirit of America
More waiting for Trump to go on you can see the
Stream hear you still haven't spoken but they have the feet up
And I went around the little Loop because they have American flags
Line right up as agency
Sunshine I get some nice curving line flag pictures perfect example
John wins lot of patriotism in the air
When I said there's a lot of crowd you couldn't see
I think my field of you was not even this much over and you
Still
A huge crowd of people they're clogging up that
Staircase more people back there and then there was more people hear more people down
Street
It was a huge huge event
Omeprazole
Free Trump speech or right when he started I can't remember specifically the very first picture I took
When he started but
Steering
Beginning of the speech I do
Remember
I kind of clued-in Mico he's speaking now versus watching him walk into the screen and snapping a
Aliso
Store on the Washington Monument
People everywhere
Johnny Cash the crowd my camera screen to flip out so it's probably
Hi my arms extended over my head trying to get these crowd pictures
Screen so I'm assuming he still hasn't started talking
So in some other pictures I was
Able to get up to these porta potties here right in the center the screen
But I did not get past the next level of gates you can see some people with some
Another set of porta potties and they're going through
Align to get them closer to the president and there's a whole section of here
You can see where people are probably sitting to see the president speak with the clothes review
Zimpher another crowd size
Selma President Trump speaking
Big crowd over there too
These people you can see right here is the Washington Monument Edge in between the White House and the Washington Monument
And these people have these massive banners out
I don't know what it says
The people something something that is the by America
Artisto Cole Society something good luck finding it I got is old kickstand
Flag
Huge Trump flag right there already
I'm trying to capture
Actually didn't even see there's a guy dressed up totally of Pepe
I didn't get his picture because I was
Shocked about the massive Trump flag
16 ft until I think what that's saying
Really that Pepe just comes out of nowhere
Bottom left
Still no President Trump speaking
Are the pardon Assange cynar
I hear super. stressed out
I'm started walking up
To just see how thick the crown God where the front was you can see
You turn around and got some Washington Monument shots for cicadas masses I'm going to turn around
The architecture with the nice Stormy Weather
I'm walking up closer to the screens
Just to see how thick the crowd was and it got really really thick at a certain point
And I had to start walking over to the edge
Basically
Get past where these porta potties were people it was so packed that people were climbing the trees people were on top of the porch
Standing On Top of infrastructure signposts they were climbing Red Light Signs
People in the trees
Sometimes I'm just trying to get pictures of just straight human emotion regardless of that
Situation I'm just trying to get somebody's face
Let me some pictures that seem a lot
Potentially what's happening there
People in the trees tonight if this was a chaotic event these people would not just be standing up and leave
Sleeveless trees they would be
Probably get note to get out
Putlockers Devo casually entries the speech taking place was not some sort of just
Angry pep rally it was not it was just people casually waiting for
Presidential speak and brought out the big American flag
And we're just passing it around the crown
People on the trees people everywhere you look so here we can see that
More forward position this is where people are just closer to see Trump I was
Thinking that this was the stage you speaking from I never confirmed it cuz I never saw him physically
I passed my camera up to somebody who's on top of the porta potties and my camera I mean I told him what the buttons do
You obviously didn't get all the good ones
A few times the police ran through
And had to clear out a certain spot
I didn't even take a picture like there was no urgency for me I didn't think this was going to be as historic as it was
Lights out
Like I was casually taking pictures this was an example of
I think it was an all medical myself so you can see a Medicare
There's no reason for them to really run in and park people
Alright to have a space to go and move
You can see
I don't know if you guys are cops or just protesters like standing around
Bottom and ignoring these guys but they're definitely
Is plain clothes people here we're in the same logos we might have been
Who knows
I was walking back to the Washington Monument I saw this guy just
Giving him a piece of his mind you know
Marca
Casually standing around nothing crazy no
Rheem freaky rhetoric no screaming
No calling for violence just waiting for Trump and there's my first picture of trump right there
When he started speaking
He was 57 minutes late so that most likely contributed to
The Capitol Building because like I said I showed up here because I thought
During his speech was going to be dropping bombs about evidence and I was there
Going to be ready to capture the reaction of the people and
I don't know if they were going to be arresting people that day but I just knew in my bones it was as to work day
Oh and he was super late so I imagine the people that were there
You're already agitated because of his lateness not because he called her violence because he was late
And then he was really just saying
Most of the same stuff you said before about boats getting stolen at this much time and
You know I thought he was going to Willis on Jed or something but yeah
I was just there to capture whatever happened. I was pretty detached from any of
Results
And I've never seen Trump speak so it was fun seeing him speak in person it kind of brought
Hannibal nurse to what I had seen on TV
Complexion flag nothing's going on people standing around with this guy.
Kid right here just nothing crazy running around
A big American flag is getting passed around you can still see Trump speaking
I tried to run in and get some shots
A President Trump with this big flag and the people
Sakana bring some
Just like Push Pull stuff in photos to make them look nice
You could see it's kind of like the the flags President Trump and it's all very dramatic
Plus I'm looking for so I'm running into the flag and trying to get these
Pictures of people passing the flag around and
Shot through the flag
With President Trump at the frame
Tons of people as far as the eye can see like I'd still don't know where
Where are you standing
Even as per my own pictures so I was I figured he was even for
Farther could have been the case example of the picture big flag trying to get presents
Trump with the people in the flag protests and
Mary standard photo stuff
Can I swoop
Do you hear
I'm telling every single picture
Because I want you all to see very clearly chain of events and the chi
Chain of
Be
Atmosphere
Okay and if I just skipped right to all my Capitol Building pictures it would give a false impression in my opinion
Maybe this is President Trump speaking here maybe that's more like it
Immediately
Hot naked stud
Black things in New Jersey thing before
So
At this time
You can see people are cold and it's windy
And he was saying the same stuff that he generally has said before so
People started leaving
You could say I was sitting at the Washington Monument and you could see the people starting to migrate toward the Capitol building
Now was one when that happened 1105 you can really start to see people moving
Building because that is when
Vote certification began and Trump was still speaking so it actually
We gave this air of why people are turning their backs on President Trump right now
While he's speaking because there was a hundreds if not thousands of people leaving
While he was speaking
And it just goes to show that
Some people were
Interested in going to see him speak
But they were also interested in bringing their voice over to the Capitol building where the electoral votes
And this is the beginning of that kind of Great Migration away from President Trump's speech to
The Capitol building
And I got some pictures of people just transferring I'm trying to get pictures of people swags in their groups
As you can see I'm leaving where the Washington Monument is
The large number of people starting to walk away and sees people in the lawn that are walking away including the people in the foreground
Better walking away
This is looking towards the Capitol building
I think is called like inauguration path or the inauguration Park
And you can see there was this Mass Exodus happening it wasn't just a couple hundred people moving over to the Capitol Building
Thousands and thousands takes a boat
10 minutes to get there maybe 15 from the Washington Monument and walking I'm a quick
Walker said only took me like 10 or 12 or in a group it might have taken them 20 minutes
But you can see this this Mass Exodus because the other Street
Was much more populated than I had been aware of and they were walking
In a huge group they sell the whole street you can see this other picture
Stop was still speaking at this time you can see a lot of people are still standing around up here but this
Was the amount of people moving over to the Capitol Building look at all these people back here they're also leaving
Right
Swamp people moving to Capitol Building because at the time you were certifying
People wanted to go have their voice heard
Capitol building
Set up listening to Trump speak Fair
Field Street everything's closed off
Capitol Buildings are here
People from everywhere all of them walking towards the Capitol building
Offseason right here laughing and smiling and joking
Even cops are just standing here talking with these
Protesters at this time which was probably around 110-115 if there was a problem
I'm sure these cops have been called as backup
Or at least not been so focused on these protesters
People with the flags
Is the other streets
People migrating migrating migrating
Not small protest people
Approaching the Capitol building behind the fountain
Pawn pool somebody built the Gallow which is appropriate
Business lady posing with the gallo
Find Washington
Capitol Building there
Trying to get waving flag now you can see all right first shots of the Capitol building
Now because of the cold I'm sure a lot of these people had their energy sapped already if it was a hot sunny day
People would have been able to stand around more they would have more energy
They probably would have you know there's just a lot of whatevs but generally warm weather
More energy
I'm I pinion
Museum across the pool here they're already large crowd formed at the base that is the Westside
Side of the top of building into the tunnel people with a base already
And I when I showed up I didn't hop any fences
I didn't push past any police officers everywhere I went
Wise clear for me to walk through
Resume on the amount of people migrating from the Washington
Monuments to the Capitol Building it's a lot
People sitting by the pool so I was thinking like not every
All riled up
To get to the Capitol Building and throw eggs at people
There's a vast majority of people that were there just sitting and watching it was not
Ravenous Mobb squeezing the life out of the Capitol building it was some pressure
The front and a lot of spectators
Now you can see there's two people sitting around
Walls and stockings defense here in this bottom left-hand corner
They sometimes there but people were freely walking up the lawn and a little bit of fencing here
I buy people were walking up to the lawn and the base is Capitol building
This is open right here you can see these two Gates or
Open I don't know any video I haven't seen any video of people ripping on apart because other side
I showed up I was walking just freely I didn't hop any fences I didn't have to do anything like that I was just
Walking freely
These people are directed this big Trump Banner with the metal
Antibes Gates
I think this is more of a ramp as you can see it's like a handicap ramp
Oh I don't think these Gates were for the protest and no gates in this picture this is people
Walking up to where the lawn is
Which was the front of the West side
This guy's waving people forward let's go forward and you can see his hand movements or word-for-word
CNC the scaffolding is not occupied none of this upper area is occupied Maybe
This was around 1:30 it's just an estimate but it's probably a bit closer than you think because
By the time I walked here and leaving Trump I move
Because of the electoral votes and it one or 105 I was like no I've heard
Before I'm going to go watch the Electoral certification and see the ramifications of that because
You can do a rally next week and those are not novel pictures anymore
I was more concerned with the Congress people and vice president Mike Pence
And what they were doing with the votes on the certification
Remember
Are you seeing
I walked out and this resolved there's already a scene here
Atlanta cops starts you can see some police right here
The wall here right underneath this m-60 President Trump
This is the edge of a cop line
Did a lot of scaffolding here nobody is climbing the scaffolding yet there are some police in
Look at this gaffling if I was American and not taking pictures I probably would have been clean
Pictures and I totally would have been able to because of the lack of police presence they might
Pepper balls or something
But if they didn't I would have been up here if I wanted to in a jiffy so there's clearly a lack of secure
Present yourself tear gassing people of course
Whatever
I notices that
When I came up here
The police line was very thin they had some High Ground of course but the police line is just
What's the flight of stairs here you can see some gating but there was just a small you know 6 stairs that go up
The first level of all that the granite or the stone or whatever this is
And you can see the police line is only one layer thin with a barrier one layer
The barrier that was the situation you're here but there's not a thick amount of police
The guy that ran past me and people started screen
He's antifa he's antifa
I can't remember if this was what the picture was lame. But there was a guy who ran very quickly passed me
And the whole concert change the antifa antifa antifa so
It looks like people got a wave of pepper spray hair cuz people work or CS gas you can see everybody covering their
CS gas
Tear gas lots of flags
People still out with their phones right this this shows people just casually standing around or lucky
I need to cop some spraying people with this gas or the pepper spray and people just
Other phones out there's no tire situation
At this point
I just called Baxley walked up under the structures this is I didn't even notice this before but
He's underneath the structure and we'll see what the line changes and extends to
And later pictures Inc
I'm I'm pretty sure protesters were way more concerned with yelling at cops and waving their flags and they were causing trouble
No barriers up to this point right so these people just walked up to this line of police there's two
Maybe one or two cops thick of this line so they didn't have reinforcements I guess they didn't need
Reinforcements at this point because the crowd was not pushing anything
At least in this spot they were not
Little Sherry matches whatever people were getting pepper sprayed
And see why they were pepper-spraying has really seen anybody throwing things at the police or
Grabbing stuff so
I'm sure the police have their reasons for
Gassing people in Spain people
You can still see here the cop line is pretty thin
They have control of where the base of this line is right here
This structure
There is a just a single line of cops in a barrier
Is me turning around and looking back towards the Washington Monument just getting some pictures of these artists and by the people standing
Watching right
They're standing around his hands in his pockets
No dire situation people coming up and yelling at the cops big deal with protests
You can see there's only one layer cop stick
These guys aren't even wearing right gear this has got his helmet on still while I guess they all do
People occupying the structure people you'll see in later pictures that people are just climbing this
Do the staircase on the left hand side
I'm trying to get some pictures of some people faces
This lady was pretty hyped up you know screaming people move forward and stuff
These people occupy this structure but you don't I don't see anybody throwing things at the cops
Yelling things waving their Flags the scheduler sharp Pole
Viking guy is liking guy he's a sharp pole and he wasn't spearing anybody
As I'm aware of
I just assumed this guy teargas cuz he's got his eyes closed and you stressed out this lady
Back to the barrier right no pressure no.
Situation she's not getting grabbed or shove by the police so even at this point it's very clearly piece
Maybe this was the part where they're talking about the ntfos but people
For climbing this stuff is just trying to get their voices heard they're going to see what's going on
The camera hear people clearly didn't mind
Being seen
And I remember my other pictures the police had control up until the corner
On this structure
Very base of it on the front
These guys are hanging out right on the wire Nothing Dire
Happening nothing crazy no extreme tension there's the same lady again
Cautious leaning up against the barrier nothing
Fire nothing crazy
Wanting a lot of noise
People lighting their smokes people sitting back
People are just hanging around this guy just chilling
People relax people chilling nobody's screaming nothing is crazy
Silent
People climbing
I'm trying to get up
These two past people came through
Looks like they were little
Pumped up I'm getting tear-gassed or something
People control this structure
And I don't know if the cops push these guys back but the people facing the other
Your way from the cops
I'm going to keep pointing out
People are just recording this guy precariously perched just recording video
There was extreme violence these people would not be hanging around on this truck
Pictures balancing themselves like this
Looking away from the cops in the danger
Need to try to get like a flag battle picture that's what these
Do Visa photos are for now I was standing on the Southside
West Lawn new. First staircase for a while cuz I was trying to feel if the crowd
And see if anything was going to pop off I wanted to be able to get away really quickly
Cannot have been just walking through aimlessly
I came in and then I stayed where I came in
Because I knew the way I would very quickly
After I realized that the situation wasn't as crazy as I thought it was just a simple protest I decide
Sidewalk the Northside of that structure that all those people are occupying and just check it with the others
Conflict
This is where I started to get more interesting because as you can see what
When I post the right side scaffolding which is the sales scaffolding on the Westside
Protesters were not climbing it it wasn't even covered with this white cloth
So
But for whatever reason this side was the weak side and the people had punched their way
Under the scaffolding up the stairs to
Tickets for the capitol
Easy people are turned around there fixing their stuff
Yelling this guys turned around this guys laughing right here
Close to the front or the cops are right there
I'm making my way over to the left side and this this was a lot more there we have a lot more police here now
Are we still only have a line of police maybe 122 police stick
Even though they have reinforcements behind them
This cops just filming stuff
Now this scaffolding was a was a point of contention
Stop is taking pictures I guess
This scaffolding was a real point of contention and you'll see in the future pics why
You can see the Top Line
You just a few cops up here
Is one or two cops thick with a line I don't even know if they had a fence on this left side will see you later
Even at this point they didn't have a ton of reinforcements and
It still didn't seem as intense as it
Steamed when I saw some videos online
You can see there's just a few cops here this cop has nobody behind him or beside him except for this guy
Barely even standing shoulder-to-shoulder in some spots they have shields but it's
It's not a huge wall of cops even at this point
And you can see that the the scaffolding is breached underneath
And I'll see her next week pictures of going on
You can see some cops have interest in this
Northside
What's a Subway Capitol building
This pop up on the right on the
Structure he didn't see wasn't pepper spraying continuously
He wasn't even really yelling a lot of people people yelling at him and he was drugging her show
Fathers and stuff so more evidence to the contrary that this was extremely violent and extremely KO
Sonic
Now this guy jumps up on the Scaffolding in order to open up a new hole to allow
More people to flood in Faster he took a knife out and he was cutting
A wavy white so you can the white barrier so you can see their done up with zip ties
And these people were cutting the zip ties or this was just not completed with construction and it was already open
But this guy chose instead to
Attack the actual white cloth vinyl stuff
New agency Horn Guy
Biking guy right there
People turned around people looking away
There was definitely pepper balls hitting that vinyl I could hear it impacting
I still cutting the barrier away with his knife so he's trying to
Commode more people access under the scaffold by cutting it away with his
It's nice and right here you can just I thought something
Teargas pepper spray stuff in his hair
Here's the cop that I was mentioning
Standing On Top of the structure they have their can of pepper spray in their hand
But you can tell by the body language there's no need for aggression this car
Stop wasn't pointing at people in fact this cop was like Hey like
Stop saying rude things to me right that's what that is just
You know no tire situation no extreme tension
You can see it in the body language
Members of the Northside
Of the West face scaffolding
Lots of camera lots and lots of cameras
People climbing the scaffolding not even to crazy they did get a Barry Road here on this corner
And you can see nothing crazy is going on this guy's fiddling with his phone on the
The front line is right in front of a cop he's feeling on his phone they're not beating people with billy clubs they were spray
Praying and stuff but more evidence to the contrary that still up
There was no extreme tension on the front line
Just a lot of yelling and there's a pepper spray
There is some action under the scaffolding here
People were just getting pepper sprayed and never be a wave of people that turn around and they're trying to get out it was super packed
I don't blame anybody for turning around and wanting to get out because
Was just packed person-to-person
Now we can see my original picture the police line was at the edge of this truck
Picture of a cop pepper spraying people right beside
These front support so they have been pushed back considerably
Maybe 7 to 10 they have lost ground but the amount of police
But they have reinforced with now is very very high
This was not the case they must have just sent a big wave of cops in because
When I turned around I didn't even go into the scaffolding at this point but when I turned around there was a huge wave of cops
People getting other pepperball or sprayed
Climbing the trusses you can see
The staircase here and people are just climbing around
Scaffolding
This guy looks like he's trying to tell people to come forward
You see how packed it is
He's making guy
Inside the scaffolding
I still haven't gone to the scaffolding I was waiting to figure out how I was going to play out because I'm going to be in there
And I didn't even know where the Frontline was inside the scaffolding
Being patient before I Advanced because I didn't want to
Caught up in something really really crazy if I didn't have to do a little bit of patience
Was just helping me feel out the situation and I deduce that it wasn't
Still was not very dire this guy was screaming very very intensely and I'll come on move forward he was shaking
When you screaming and this is exactly what I'm talking about when I'm trying to capture
Human emotion right this passion is yelling
This is the kind of picture really really come for and this is what I was always intentionally originally aiming to capture
I thought this kind of reaction and emotional passion was going to come from
I'm speech and revealing evidence but it did not it came from the Capitol building
People walking up the stairs
People climbing the scaffolding
Very easy to climb lots of places to grab pretty safe holding up all those people right
People waving their Flags
Illinois
Not to mention I still haven't gone into the scaffolding
I took a few shots inside the scaffolding
This is the first
Picture I think I have that really shows some sort of
Removal of structure not going to show you something because there's a lot of people that have been saying that
Antifa right identify themselves with backward Maga hats
And what does that guy look like backward Maga hat
0 identity
Right this is the person this is the kind of person that we would be paying attention to
Now I did not in to not think about this going into this action
That there was going to be
Antifa masquerading I just kind of already knew it but without taking a conscious second tooth
Think keep an eye out for people wearing backwards hats or which I didn't know at the time but
Keep an eye out for people causing trouble
Because they're most likely antifa and there's generally a combination of totally hiding your identity and
Causing damage
Or being
Over the top
And this is just an example of what that
Person would dress like
I'm not saying this guy is antifa but
This so this is now the first example of somebody tearing down a barricade that I had experienced
I checked inside the scaffolding
Look like a couple or something and I was thinking I could get a nice couple photo
So people getting tear gas you can see there's no old vet here
Helping people are getting that he got pepper bald are tear gas
And he's helping at his buddies or the other protesters just clearing their eyes water
Lots of people this is a little platform
That was close to the police and you can see
This is actually this little hole is the police line
But there was a separate area where you could stand up
And have a bit of a high Advantage with I don't know if you could see through that plastic
But that spot exist
People climbing agency top Center
People are climbing up the trusses
This is actually I think the guy just pointed out
Rmbs that it wasn't even the red gloves Green Jacket no identity
Dallas Cowboy Boots
Nothing is antifa I'm just saying
94 Hallmarks right there
He got quite the weather in flag though so I think that's like bonus points for him
People climbing climb climb climb
Very sturdy to climb on this kind of scaffolding I would climb this without a second
Worry or nervousness
And the police line is right up here
Look there's people that have a high ground on the police
And they're not throwing bottles at them they're not throwing stuff in up stabbing them with flags
I just yelling
Right
That means a lot more peaceful than you think it was
Fight turned around I'm inside of Copley now and I turned around
Just to see what the crowd look like
You could see
At the top of the scaffolding the police line isn't even that long they had like
Need seven cops really covering this whole area and there was a barricade
Insead Viking guy right here at the front
And this is I think one of the only
Pictures I have
People really
Spearing the cops with flags this one for me
As you can see this Trump flag is
Talking this police Shield there's a bit of contact
I don't know who that connects to
Magalys videos who knows who what
Scuffles
You can cc12
Three four five six seven eight nine
There's only less than double-digit amount of carbs at least in this photo and one barrier to hold back
Thousands of people
So there was a very obvious under Staffing under preparation
7/8
8 cops looking they're getting hit with tear gas
Getting sprayed with stuff
So you can lose these police are wearing gas masks to single wave of Cs gas what your guys would have wiped
Everything out
Including the cops
They're using tear gas
And if they wanted to stop his protest they can just tear gas everything in my opinion
And there was not enough
Tear gas and pepper spray from Rye cops there was not enough people with gas masks on the protesters side
I think to overpower the police force
You can see this back on here
So when I was shooting this back lawn still hadn't been punctured either and the police still have control
Chair here it's just sitting here
Unmolested
The two cops that can't even stand shoulder-to-shoulder with each other to block this lawn yet
The people still have not just walked past these cops
Right
Listen another indication for low violence low-stress
No hair trigger moments this was busy
But you can see in other places we even right beside it
It was not
Chaotic
This was basically the Frontline of the north side of the West Lawn
You can see these police here
Their barrier was starting to collapse these people are holding onto the barrier they're pulling it down or falling apart
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 we still have less than
Two dozen police
11 cops there
Trying to hold back these thousands of people
As a choke point so it it's easier than you think but
Underprepared much
Casual people disguise not even looking
The front of the protest
These people have the barrier in their hands
I was not
Exceptionally exceptionally dire things weren't hopping super super fast
What's just goes to show that this was more
Relax
And less aggressive than
Could be portrayed
Still a very few romantica Ops 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
You can see there's a bit of a barrier battle here
One of these cops is Billy clubbing people
Right up in the front
Psychosis guy
Remember
The cops I mean now is this guy for sure right right in the middle
He's Billy clubbing people and I mean ass protest don't grab the berry like a billy club
This guy looks like he's texting right now
So how can you be an extremely dangerous situation right at the very front
This is as I was on the other side I never went to the east side
Buy on the westside this is the farthest they were
Right
And this guy is just texting
Where's the urgency where's the extreme Danger
These people are starting to pull apart the Barrack this these barriers
This guy has a baton I don't know if this is a cop it dropped the Baton but somebody's holding a baton right here so
That's probably
Double is another example of an antifa
All black black helmet no identity but attempting to hijack
Jack the symbology
The paint people in a bad light this person might not be antifa but this
I'm pointing out the Hallmarks of an antifa covid-19 operating under the guy
Size of somebody who wed
Support the Confederate flag Ward
You know just slap one on their helmet to demonize what the flag means and when he when he goes and does bad dangerous things
They're going to say that person was wearing the Confederate flag on their helmet
When they were a bad actor
And they have they don't care about the flag they just care about
Producing that images right and you can see these cops have now gotten pushback
To this wall this corner so there's no
Are there snow barricade here left or they weren't willing to stand there against the crowd
Legacy people there was a guy that was texting
Suspect in off a texting and now he's just climbing over the barrier
The cops are holding it back he's got trouble on the corner
But they are losing this Frontline right here
Cops with riot shields this guy looks like he's over there
Barrier
This could be an example of another antifa
All black
No ID
I don't think it's a coincidence they're hanging out with each other
This guy's definitely passed where that barricade was now mister Flagg here
Still this cops another separate and you can see this cop is over here on the right
These cops are pulled back to the corner on the left
Little bit of forward momentum for the protesters
But still not dire enough apparently
For this guy to need to pay attention to the front he's turning around and laughing
This guy's got a black can of something
Golf foxtrot Yankee who are you
Anacapa some pepper spray
To the little thing here
They pushed the barrier out of the way
Black
Faceless
Actors three out of the 12345
Six seven eight nine 10 11 12
So we're thinking
You know 1/3 a crack in 1/4 of the people in the photo
Could potentially be dressed as Bad actors
Right at the front
I've been penetrated
At the photos prove it what you want
Maybe pepper spray don't know but look they have definitely gotten up to this front now
I went back down
To just see what it looked like down at the base
Because
I guess I didn't want to be
Near the front as they were breaking it in case some extreme something extreme happened
Up there because when you're making ground there's going to be tension and pressure and potentially violence
Or flying kinetic energy
I just want to take a step back and say if it's going to get dicey up there I want to be
Away from it because if it gets dicey I Don't Want to Be Right the front and then get caught up in a stampede
And this spot right here offered me a very safe place to just stand and you can see the police brought out
Barricade
Cuz I'm not pictures before
There were people
And police officers just hanging out
They still lost their ground at the base of this structure and they hadn't regained it
But this was definitely a lot more action e Wright
Pepper spray flying there's gas in the air
People look like they're injured people are helping out injured people there probably pushing to barricade forward
They have real riot police here now
So just a single line of bicycle cops
People are injured people screaming was God's eyes closed probably
Tear gas and just yelling with his eyes closed
Still a lot of people just filming this guy still climbing stuff
So even at the front this was just a a a tension at the front and there was no
From what I can see extremely dire situations
This guy is just up at the front of his hands up he's got his hands in his pockets
There's just a level of non-violence that's very
Observable
Other than just the odd you know probably billy club in the spray of the Cs gas tear gas
Pepper spray
This guy brought the horn out I don't know if they used it I wasn't really paying attention to that
Now this person
Grab the grab the fire extinguisher from somewhere and was using it
2
Cloud out the police
Nobody stopped him from what I understand I tried to get some pictures in a Baltimore blurry
But there were people causing a little bit of mayhem
Like this
Like I don't agree with using a fire extinguisher like that myself
Escale a waste of a fire extinguisher
But I mean smoked about for a second
Riot police with shields
People standing on top of a barrier
Just turned around looking at people people laughing texting
Bullhorn
Dudes on his phone right here
Love. This is at Northside West scaffolding I was talking about
And people climb you can until people are climbing it
This guy's not even standing on a platform he's standing still up on the Truss
This guy cut himself a little hole just to stick out of and take some video
More people's
Yelling and screaming and
This is a lot of this got cut as you can see this was all kind of way
This was rolled away this was
Zip ties cutaway Maybe
This cop still sitting up here
Not actively beating people just standing there
Now they have a high ground
But noticed they were not using The High Ground and
Constantly throwing things at the police they are took The High Ground just at the El louder and wave their flag
From a higher perspective like this guy's
Climbing up Justin yell louder and
Get a better vantage point but they didn't use the height
To throw things at police just going to something
Going on right here
This guy looks like he got hurt or hit or whatever
He's pretty killed over
You can see somebody waving people to come forward right there with his orange gloves
We'll give it a thumbs up
Under teargas pepper spray action
Play this guy he's standing there laughing with a stick
I'm going to show you here even though there was still spraying pepper spray and stuff
Look at this guy he's not looking at the cop he has his own poll
Where is the violence why is this guy hitting the police
People just yelling lots of people just yelling
Healing is not violence
Yelling is just yelling and getting your voice heard
Accidentally closed it
So this is when I returned to where they had reached before on the North
Side of the West
Face of the Capitol building
People are still up on the trusses
People are starting to fall off the stairs
You can see this is where that. Battle was with the police before you can still see the barricades there
But now people are freely walking up the side of the Capitol building
NCB walking up the stairs here misses the guy that was yelling before
Telling people to move forward
So now I'm climbing and moving forward myself
To get pictures of the auction
His people flooding up those stairs
There's Viking guy actually right there
This is closer to the front that I think because his golf foxtrot Yankee guy
Was was at the front the whole time
You could see his helmet
And
Mister Viking here so
This is probably still the Frontline
But I was not
The front I was not
Wanda two people away from the front so I'm not sure if that was the edge
I climb the stairs when I could
You can see it's just packed wall-to-wall
But people but these people are still turned around laughing getting their pictures
These guys are turned around laughing looking at the pictures there's nothing in front of them so dire so dangerous that they could not
Look away
Kenmore clogged people shouldn't push up now
I don't see any police in this picture
There's Viking guy still right here right on the edge of the wall and the stairs so this is
Maybe where the police are but you can see they have a foothold at the top of the stairs
I want the belt safe
I went upstairs myself
But until then I was just taking pictures of people
Making Headway upstairs
Now I'm going up the stairs myself
There's nobody there's no fences in the way there's no police in the way
I just walked up enough to pop anything
Now on the top of the Capitol so this is probably the first
Kind of acai exposure of people punching through and being allowed / making their way
To the top of the Capitol building and you can see there's even Viking guy
Right here
So if I can guy was not even inside yet
We're still quite early into the situation
And there's people running around I'm guessing looking for places to get inside
These doors are shut right here in the middle
I think this was a pair of
Doors or setup windows in this
But you'll get a closer look at later
But it's not too busy up here
There's even a scaffolding here
Untouched that would take people to the next level I don't know if it was operational
But
This is
How can you have
A pepper salad prepared plan
When your
Motor
Lyft is just down where the protesters are
Gross negligence
This guy is at the front of the door here on the very left side of the screen
These people have not punctured these doors Viking guy is right in the center note that he's not inside the capitol
Building I don't know if he was about Frontline of that but
So now I'm looking at the center
And why it moved over this way
And noticed my pictures are not past the police
I saw these for police here
I'm not interested in trying to get past
Them obviously
I meant shooting any pictures
But they still shows
That they had we had the protesters have occupied the top but they still only had four police
For this Northwest
Part of the Capitol building
And these cops are walking away so there's no dire situation here where people are trying to bust into these doors
They don't even have a barricade established
So
I went up the stairs
And this police are these two
Female officers were yelling me to get back which I did immediately but I still snap a picture
And you can see how big this crowd was it's not super clear
Because those people yelling at me the officers were yelling at me but we have
They have the protesters have
The scaffolding
I say we I'm just talking about not the police
I'm just talking with the people that were there
This protest extend all the way down the street
Three four blocks with people
The back of the fountain is filled
The front of the protest is filled with people it was
Massive. still doesn't do it justice
People are freely walking up around the Capitol building
Right now police inside
I didn't even take any of these bottles of water I did not touch anything
I didn't even look at a bottle water and think free stuff and grab it. That is how
Removed I was from the situation and not intent on disturbing anything
Physically
I showed you the picture before of the the two police officers
Holding the lawn
And this is the lawn I was talking about there's some sort of the structure here that was destroyed
But you can see that this protest
Goes very very very far back
Tesla statue here for reference
But you can see this protest didn't even end
All the way back there
It was not a small
Crowd of like a thousand people causing trouble
This is probably one third of the entire protests and people who wanted to hear Trump speech
Each are migrated to the Capitol Building
I don't know which I'm speech situation was at this point in time because I did not I was not checking that I wasn't
Way too busy looking for pictures to get
They can see people are just free climbing these kinds of
Crabbing spots people are walking up the sides of the buildings
People are up on the cross on the top
And this is. Same long I mentioned
People were just freak lying because the stairs were totally clogged
And I mean
It's a pretty competent 3km if I was to say so myself
I've climbed out pretty confidently
There's people at the top now this is the people that came up the stairs
I'm at Northwest side
They're already up there but I guess the stairs were so clogged
And people were so amped up
To get up onto the wall to protest a little closer to the Capitol Building
They were willing to free climb
Right
Did I think this is almost more fun and a more novel I'm not American so I can tell you the depth of the emotion of
These people
Climbing these walls like this
But the desk I think the desperation of people trying to get their voice heard
And participate in the protest is evident with this kinds of actions
And see people helping people up climbing the wall these are just Your Average Joe's
Open up pictures of the old guy climbing the wall
Just got pepper sprayed
He's feeling it
I don't know what he did
Or you got teargas I don't know but
He was feeling it that way
So you can see the store is opening a good meme on this one
The store is open
But it's open because the police are walking around
If you can find a video of the police opening these doors are police protesters
Good on you but I didn't see who was going into these doors but there was a period of time or these doors are not locked
And there was people
Freely able to enter
Clearly
Doors open and it looks like people are walking into the capitol
You have to find another reference video in reference to
Is amashots now look at these cops here these cops came around this left corner
Right
And we're walking up to the store and you can tell
The car is not totally focused on these police these police are casually walking they don't have to be holding onto each other they didn't need
Fields they casually just walked through the protesters and went inside
So
Another example of
There is no extreme sense of urgency there's no those cops did not feel threatened
I didn't need tons of backup this was not as bad as they say
That door is still open so I don't know what's taking this place so long to close it
Flag-waving picture pictures of course
That door still open on the right
Hey look at this guy this
This is not a just a group of Young Bucks
Climb in the wall storming the capital of this is your average American trying to protest and make their voice
Voice heard and that this guy
Needed to climb the wall to get that done that's what he was doing
More people shaking hands
She's not even looking towards the front nobody there's not a stack of people up here at these doors
People that's helping it Beach other climb people want to wave their Flags
This was as close to the front as you could get
Really
As far as the northwest side is concerned like I said I never went to the east side I don't know what happened on the other side of the building at all
I came from the Washington Monument where I was taking pictures last and
This is the Westside connections at Washington Monument
So this is the side I stopped to
I didn't even run around the Capitol Building I was on this side the entire time
Tons and tons of people
People just want to wave their Flags
People climbing up the side
People standing around moseying around disguises casually walking on his phone
It was not
I hope the pictures just speak for themselves
So I can take a
Secure at their wall
And you can see
The amount of people up here still very high but they were not willing
To bust pass this barrier of cops
And we still have 1 2 3 4
Maybe three four five cops covering this side but they were already hundreds of people up here
These police are just casually walking around this guy's just holding his best
There's no threat to them even though they're surrounded by protesters
They're just casually standing there this guy's is leaning up on the guardrail
Like he doesn't care at all
This cop just leaning up on the guardrail
Let's guys to fill out a hard time
Play this guy he's just laughing this is all fun this is just part of America
I guess
There's this lady really trusting this guy
And this guy is holding onto these guys like this is just
Nobody was getting shot at nobody on this I was getting pepper bald
People just here for some pictures people are turned around
Hands in their pockets
Because just like that modern
Yeah exactly
So here's that leftover that was open
Now the police came through
And
They again cosme walkthrough I think I actually saw a couple empty water bottles get some of these cop cops
And look they're doing the thing so as their traversing this opening
They have to hold onto each other
Right because you know that he might feel threatened so these cops clearly are aware that if there's a bit of a
Situation the old grab on the armor to link and become as a unit
Is there they know to do that
But even this cop is less concerned he doesn't feel pressured
To hold onto his teammates so this still
Was not
You know an exceptionally crazy scenario where a police officer would show up and people were beating them
He's got booed or you know whatever
Oh yeah yeah you know the cops
Hey
Even though this door has some pressure around it
The vast majority of people are still turning around to Yellow
And enchant at the police that casually walking away right so even the friendly stores was not a dire situation
People laughing people smiling
People were up on the scaffolding and they were just standing on it like waiting in line almost to get inside
Recording here
Sweet
Those doors are not open actually think it was a window that was smashed and this window was broken
So I'm sure you can go find video of somebody breaking the window you know
Those windows are broken
But people are still I don't think they were getting in
He had to go find some other video to confirm that
People were stomping their feet you can see everybody's got their feet picked up here
It's kind of a cool little detail these people ran into get a
Opposed in a picture
If they were trying to pose that I ran away to quick
You can see people are picking their feet up stomping they're just trying to be heard
This is the front
No I don't think these people were flooding in here got think I got one little overhead shot
Disguises chance and save America
Techamerica
Whatever you expecting a producer to say
You can see like people aren't looking at this window
These cops are fiddling around
This is not a dire point of contention where people are ripping the wood off and they're trying to bust in here
But you can see that there's
Protesters inside the first time I noticed that
Look at that you can see there's protesters behind the police and they're just fiddling there
Twiddling their thumbs twiddling their fingers
Look there's protesters inside the building right now
Was I say
Multiple change anything still not going through those doors
So I went back around the stairs
This is the Cherokees originally came up. Northwest flight
Affairs
Just trying to capture some human emotions coming up the stairs you can see the depth of the protest
Amount of people
Once again you can see how far this protest goes
All the way
People flying a flag people just want to fly their flags and be heard
Still no intense violence
I don't see anybody like nothing on fire
So I went back up to the Capitol Building after getting some crowd pics and this looked like some sort of militia are they the same
Like they're all hanging out together
Home Group
Or even their flags up there you just guy so occupied with waving flag
Even if they're a group and they're like a connected little team
Dude has got his hands in his pockets Where is the
Militia the right-wing militia are going at bus stuff up and he's sitting there
I got a Twisted Tea ready to go
That's that's what they are
Is another crowd shot
Looks like the
Moved up from the last time I saw them but the police still clearly own
This bottom part
Kind of because like they get a protest up here
I think this protestor climbed up
And he's yelling but these cops don't really care about this protester up here so how dired is this
Theme Monday night willing to really get this guy off or detain him even though he is
Gone up a level
Like this guy
He's getting pushed okay okay I got ambushed
But these days she's not even pepper-spraying these people this guy's freely standing up here these protesters are
Moseying around
Right
More examples of
The lock of
Required aggression in focus
Anak it hurt
People showing up to wave their Flags
Now because the wind was so crazy and you can tell because the flags are waving
If they were shooting to your gas every now and again there would just be a wave of gas I came back
And just hit everybody and you'll see that the cops
You know there's either in their own this might have been a fire extinguisher but they were in their own
Teargas and they were getting hit by their own stuff and you can see some cops covering their face getting water
Report on them
Lots of protesters
Me getting American Flag America pictures
America America
Assassin's original so there's some of them are just underexposed
But you can just see the last people I saw pictures at it so
Once again this is up on the scaffolding where those two police women were pointing and shouting at me in that one picture
This door is now closed there's no entry and exit right here
I don't know if they're still entering and exiting around here cuz it looks like the police had the
That window that's too broke it's at the broken windows controlled
But the population on top has grown dramatically since I got up there
So you can you can just see that
There was his never-ending stream of people coming up
People are still nosing around Napa's up on the bleachers and you can see that they they were inside the cab
Capital they're coming out
They looking to take pictures
I did not go inside the capital of that is just asking to get ambushed cutoff arrested detained
No reason for me to go in there
Other than my own belief that
My talents of taking pictures could have been useful inside the Capitol building
But I there's so many people have cameras and I was like yeah I'll let the Americans take pictures of the inside
Side of their own buildings that was not comfortable going inside but I really wanted to because I love chasing the idea of the picture
But even
Me going into the Capitol Building didn't seem appropriate or
Safe for me
And see these cops are hanging around up here this got to go to silence weapon
Silencer
So you had a gun he's got a gun
But there was no need to use it
At least at this point
But these protesters were inside the capitol
Something to think about
People want to get inside and just waste a flag like us
That's it
More people climbing the scaffolding and now remember I told you when I
Showed up and I pointed this out
That this guy falling does not have a cover on it but people were not climbing it
Even though there was a crowd at stablished
And it only took a very long time before people
Found the energy to climate
So there was no
Large group of people trying to take High Ground trying to
Advance the front line with desperation and speed in a rush and there was nothing like that
There was
Evidence the contrary and you can see all everybody here is turned around so I'm guessing there was a big
Wave of teargas and you can see that the cops are at themselves
That's what I'm talking about the wind was crazy
These police are all
Coughing up getting hit with their own stuff guy
People climbing up the wall
But
What does Zumba SLC
A lot of people are
Turned around
People are trying to take pictures
They're all trying to escape teargas I'm guessing you see this huge amount of people that are all turned around here
So this is the spot I was talking about where I have the picture of those three or four cops guarding it casual
There was no barricade erected and
They had some reinforcements to cover this
Top part
But there's a barricade
These people are trying to dismantle it or whatever I don't know I just have a still you have to go find some photos yourself
First video
But there was still a clear path into the capital people are walking in here I don't see any cops stopping them
But you can see protesters are inside the Capitol building for sure
Going to take pictures going to get their photo ops
Going to wave a flag
People are still flooding in here
That human emotion I'm talking about
I like really like to capture
Protesters getting inside the Capitol Building people are more people are starting to show up on different levels
Of the Capitol building
Cops having a hard time there just in some conflict
So you can see there's a front-line people are climbing here
And you still
Just yelling at the cops this guy is kind of casually filming
They have a severely strong position right here with the stairs because it's a such a tight choke point
And now you can see this police like we have
A high ground on the police
Right here
But people still we're not flooding into this area so there's no reason and there was no
Extreme pressures to take every inch of ground possible there was a real casualness to
Tooth whole thing there is his real like lack of
Extreme tension
There is a lack of
Large groups of people willing to make aggressive moves
To go attack people or
Remove them
You can see that they're still cops here
You're still covering
The staircase people getting up there they're waving their flag
Flags
And I think it's important that I was here and I made these moods take a picture like this
I think this day is going to turn out to be very very very important day in history and I'm really grateful that I was
Where to get these
Pictures
And to capture what happened up there
First Amendment right there
Once again look at it
We have these protesters have control of this top area
But they're still not willing to just hop down a tiny little thing here
And go in and Rusty stairs or get these cops
Dislodged from their position
Is a serious lack
Of
Isolating cops attacking cops
Ambushing them taking High Ground from them to turn around and attack them there was such a lack of that
Like I said there's is casualness and that's why I'm stuck around this whole time because there was never a point I felt
Where there was such an escalation that I said it's really time for me to leave
At least up until this point
And there was a bit of a battle right here
There was a cop swinging his Club at one of these people
Maybe was that guy I'm not sure
But
I saw a few swings but like these cops still have their backs to these protesters the protesters have let the cops
Walkaway
There's no speed and aggression
You guys are casually walking away
They have the door covered which is fine this guy thought it was appropriate to take his mask off
And yell so there's no direct threat of pepper mace or pepper spray or mace
Are tear gas from those cops covering the door
That they're just maybe even exchanging yelling at each other right
They don't have their clubs out ready to go at a moment's notice these people hands in their pockets
Texting
Fiddling around
Very close to the end here
And I was I had switched sides because I was on the North side pretty much the entire time
I figured it would be opt for me to get to the south side
I've just moved more so the other thing of the scaffolding to get some new angles
A nice picture the flag with the entrance
Puno
I want again I did not enter the Capitol Building at very close never went in
People are saying move forward
We have high ground there's no cops here
You can see that it's not super densely pack
Nobody smashing these windows where's the people smashing those windows to get in
The level
And the concentration of violence was extremely focused
Those are the stairs that the cops are holding very adamantly for a long time
Who's getting some overhead shots
This is the closest I got to go inside because I just wanted to see if I can get a picture of what was happening
And it looks like
Looks like I don't know you just have to go confirm yourself but it looks like that the protesters up a freeway
And they might have been flooding in but they weren't just walking in quickly so there might have been some
Pressure
Or choke points for them to stop
But this is the closest I got
You see the glasses magistrate there I don't see any cops clearly at the end
The tunnel so they might have been moving in Freely
This is the only time I asked somebody to wave a flag
Ask Piscataway this flag and he did it kind of
Really not enthusiastic job so I got stopped
The only time I ask anybody to do something for a photo op
And like I said he didn't have the energy I was looking for so I was like a Thang
Casually people casually standing waving their Flags around
Almost done
This is me so you can see the scaffolding I came up was this opposite side and they had that they had brought that huge American flag
Apply it
But there's a kid up here
Huge protest in protest protest
Lots of people no cops no Cobbs visible down here
So this point the capitals prettymuch
Taking over other than this
I think that's the south side of the West face
And you can see that they have a barricade here
The opposite side of the stairs I went up in that were clogged so we can see that the right side was quite a lot
Are the
South side of the West face was a lot more fortified
Then the north side of the West face
You're still clogs up people but
This lady is turned around she's not even facing the right way
Indicating again that
There is nothing really really crazy going on this guy's got to Club in his hand he's not swinging in people actively
This lady's turned around with her box point-blank to the cop
People yelling at each other about once again another example of
This relatively controlled casual situation
Not one of dire consequence life-and-death
I'm going to get that big flag up there
But at this point once I saw this guy and these guys take the bleacher
This was my queue that I did not feel comfortable
Now you can see this guy's got mags and he looks like he's got a pepper gun but he had mags
And it looks like these guys really meant business
And they had this was the first hints of them
Retaking
Ground they had lost
But this guy let this person is still casually
Crossing your legs
More yelling
But this was my cue to leave because the the crowd behind me was so packed that if
All of a sudden they were taking this delicious the first demonstration that okay you know we're taking back
What we're looking for
The things that we lost which was the scaffolding right this is that where the two poor lady police were telling me to get back from
Originally
1602 taking it back I was like you know what I'm going to leave now
But right when somebody popped a smoke grenade of course they're just a few more pictures to get on the way out
Universo Pact
That I actually had to climb down the scaffolding to get oats
Because I felt it was time to leave myself my cameras are batteries and Picard space
So I was just reaching my limit and I still need to walk
Away and
Still people yelling no rushing
These people are very content with standing back here and just yelling which is indicating again that there was no extreme desire
Dire need except for
The unique person who was willing to really run up the side
Rhino extreme pressures
To make moves
Old people climbing up the sides of buildings
I was stuck in this little thing as I was trying to get out
So I was just trying to take a picture to show the traffic
Everybody's Frozen this is what I was trying to this is what I was nervous about is this
Level up pack people
Clogging everything up
And now the police were starting to demonstrate that they were pushing people back
That's my cue to leave been there I think a couple hours or whatever
Maybe an hour and a half
Hour 45 minutes
What's the weather look like
Time difference check
But he goldmoor old guys climbing up
I got their flag
I'm trying to bring it up there way that I leave it strong
You can see that all the police
The original spot
Was like here
How to conceal a mouse going
The original staircase is roughly here
So you can see that the police
Had lost all the ground that they had
We have
Control of the stop sign as well
And you can see that the police have now taken back the scaffolding let's see
The mingling with protesters a little even right here
Biscoff is smiling
And then you can look that they have their weapons in the low low position or not shoot actively shooting people
This entire row of people right in front of these police have their backs to them which shows that they weren't
Rushing up here and arresting people these people are precariously balancing on the edge
More demonstrations more proof
That
This was not something where everybody needs to be arrested immediately pepper-sprayed immediately Billy
Clubbed there was an uncanny level of casualness to this whole of
Sweetie
And now that I've left the Capitol Building I'm turning around and just getting some pictures of the aftermath really still looks like people
Feeding into the store
The cops have taken almost total control of the scaffold
Are there still people turned around not looking at them so there's a low threat involved there
And this is just leaving on the way out
Custom window Flags
I'm just trying to get some pictures of people walking away right just do people say and move forward
Still people
Transiting around
But this is definitely after Trump has done speaking
I still haven't even gone past the pond you can see the back side which is the Westside
Of the pond
To the west of the Capitol building is
In the shop
So I still haven't walked past that yet
And there you there you have it
Pretty much it
Have control of that there's still the protesters up on that topside
Use your own judgment I got the pictures to show it was not
A crazy crazy crazy crazy and Wild
But I don't think it was crazy there was a level of casual
Casualness
That was pretty uncanny in my opinion it actually kind of showed me
American Spirit in the house
They are like the rattlesnake like Benjamin Franklin talk about
Right
The only strike at the at the very very last second when the when the rattle
Has no purpose to Rattle anymore
And
The majority of Americans
Apparently
We're showing that they were still just shaking the rattle pretty much this whole time and and there was a few people
That got bit
But
The amount of people that were up on the capitol versus the amount of people actually damaging stuff
Stop is such a mathematical small number
I'm sure you could very easily argue that the the people causing damage
What such a mathematically insignificant
Number / significant number of such a small concentration
You don't need to arrest the entire protest that's just ridiculous that straight ignorant
Because serious majority of people
For peaceful
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