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BREAKING : Previously Unseen January 6th Footage https://t.co/0jxqANbNVn
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Welcome to the US Capitol Building! Join us for the insurrection and check out our promotional leaflet. Stay in the safety quadrant and ask our capital police officers for help if needed. Enjoy activities like the photography tour, fancy dress competition, and climbing wall (remember the safety ropes). Jacob Chansley is the winner of the fancy dress competition and will receive a guided tour. Please clean up after yourselves, visit the souvenir shop, and join us on the outdoor terrace for Nancy Loses Insurrection Soiree with refreshments and music by our competition winner.
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Speaker 0: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the US Capitol Building. If you've joined us today for the insurrection, please make sure you pick up a promotional leaflet on the way in. Stay inside the safety quadrant at all times. And if you get lost, speak to one of our capital police officers, they'll be sure to to point you in the right direction. And be sure to set aside a little time today to join us for some insurrection activities including our photography tour, our fancy dress competition, and have a go on our climbing wall.
But don't forget those safety ropes. And I've now received the results of our fancy dress competition. The winner today is Jacob Chansley. That's mister Jacob Chansley. If you could report to your nearest Capitol Police Officer, they'll be sure to give you your prize, a guided tour of the building.
Wherever possible, please try to clean up after yourselves. Don't forget to visit the souvenir shop on the way out, and feel free to join us on the outdoor terrace for Nancy Loses Insurrection Soiree, grab yourself a light refreshment, and enjoy the music of our very own fancy dress competition winner.
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January 6 Clip of the Day: The first minutes on the western front of the Capitol. Want to know what else happens? Five hours from this camera are archived here: https://ia801500.us.archive.org/23/items/tZCWWPSGRDq8Simbj/tZCWWPSGRDq8Simbj.mpeg4 https://ia801500.us.archive.org/23/items/tZCWWPSGRDq8Simbj/tZCWWPSGRDq8Simbj.mpeg4
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EXCLUSIVE: The Capitol Hill Tapes Exclusive investigation into 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟔 based on 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 https://ept.ms/3KVxjll
[PREMIERING 8/11 at 9 AM ET] EXCLUSIVE: The Capitol Hill Tapes
The Epoch Times was given access to tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol Police security video ...
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Title: Unveiling New Insights: Challenging Narratives and Shedding Light on the Events of January 6
Introduction:
The events that transpired on January 6 at the US Capitol continue to captivate the nation's attention. Recent analysis of Capitol Hill security footage has brought forth a series of revelations that challenge key narratives surrounding that fateful day. This comprehensive overview aims to delve into these new findings, providing a deeper understanding of the incidents involving individuals like Pink Beret, Officer Brian Sicknick, the Oath Keepers, and the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips.
Unraveling the Pink Beret's Alleged Role:
One of the most intriguing discoveries from the newly analyzed security footage is the presence of an individual known as Pink Beret. This person allegedly played a pivotal role in luring a defendant into the Capitol. The footage provides a clear visual account of their actions, raising questions about their motives and potential involvement in the events that unfolded.
The Tragic Deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips:
The footage also sheds light on the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips. Amidst the chaos and clashes between protesters and officers, Mr. Philips fell unconscious. However, efforts to save him were delayed, ultimately leading to his untimely demise. These distressing details highlight the urgency and importance of understanding the sequence of events that unfolded on that day, ensuring a comprehensive examination of the circumstances surrounding these tragic losses.
Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers:
Another significant aspect illuminated by the security footage is the incidents involving Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers. Contrary to previous reports, the footage challenges the initial narrative surrounding Officer Sicknick's cause of death. A more comprehensive understanding of the events is crucial to accurately determine the circumstances that led to his tragic passing. Additionally, the footage provides valuable insights into the actions and movements of the Oath Keepers, shedding light on their role during the events of January 6.
The Turmoil and Police Response:
The chaos that unfolded on January 6 cannot be overlooked. Protesters clashed with officers, projectiles were thrown, and chemical munitions were deployed. Amidst this turmoil, police aggressively cleared the Capitol, pushing protesters out. Tactical teams meticulously swept the upper floors, ensuring no one was left behind. The Jan 6 Tapes and Capitol Hill security footage offer a comprehensive visual account of these events, providing a clearer understanding of the intensity and scale of the situation.
Conclusion:
The newly analyzed Capitol Hill security footage has unveiled a series of revelations that challenge previous narratives surrounding the events of January 6. From the alleged actions of Pink Beret to the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips, and the incidents involving Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers, these findings emphasize the need for a comprehensive understanding of the events that unfolded on that day. By examining these new insights, we can strive for a more accurate and nuanced understanding of this pivotal moment in our nation's history.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives | THREAD👇https://theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-capitol-hill-security-footage-challenges-jan-6-narratives-5454274?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub… A 3-month investigation by @EpochTimes of 41,000 hours of US Capitol Police surveillance video has uncovered dramatic footage that in many cases challenges longstanding narratives about what took place on #Jan6.
EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives
The Epoch Times earlier this year began investigating 41,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police Jan. 6 security video.Starting in late April, the newspaper scrubbed through hundreds of hours of video that wa...
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@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Since late April, the newspaper has analyzed hundreds of hours of video that was previously hidden from public view. https://theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub… The first results of this ongoing investigation are presented in an @EpochTV Special Report with host @JoshJPhilipp and senior investigative reporter Joe Hanneman @EpochJoe64. @EpochTimes has so far obtained 65 video clips from the US Capitol Police CCTV database. Another 64 clips are pending. A few clips were withheld due to security concerns. Together, these videos cover a wide range of #Jan6 topics.
EXCLUSIVE: The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video
The Epoch Times was given access to tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol Police security video ...
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@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Who is Pink Beret? Bystanders in the huge crowds at the US Capitol on #Jan6 couldn't help but notice the young woman with the stylish clothes, high heels, Dolce & Gabbana handbag, and a pink beret perched on her head. She became known on social media by the hashtag #PinkBeret.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
#PinkBeret was in the crowd that watched the first breach of police lines near the Peace Fountain on the Capitol's west front at about 12:50 p.m. #Jan6 defendant Darrell Neely told a federal court in his criminal trial that Pink Beret lured him into the Capitol Visitor Center and tried to saddle him with a bag full of police gear she picked up off the floor. "It is clear Pink Beret was on a mission to get to the Capitol as quickly as possible and to be one of the first to get there," Neely's attorney, Kira West, wrote in a court filing. "We know this because she ran across grass—in heels." The Epoch Times researched and requested a collection of video clips that document the actions of the woman.
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After more than 2 years, the #FBI put her on its #Jan6 most-wanted page in late April. More than 2 months after she was named in Neely's court filings as a potential defense witness, the FBI identified #PinkBeret as Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
On May 9, the #DOJ charged Ms. Geller with 4 #Jan6 misdemeanor counts. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/pink-beret-husband-charged-with-jan-6-crimes-at-us-capitol-5404339?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Her case was unusual because the DOJ almost never announces charges against defendants before they are arrested and in custody. Her husband, Spencer Sidney Geller, was charged in July with a felony obstruction count and 4 misdemeanors. As in his wife's case, Mr. Geller's charges were announced when he was not in custody. The Gellers are living in Thailand with their 10-month-old daughter. So far, the #FBI has not made moves to arrest the pair and extradite them back to the US to face trial.
‘Pink Beret’ Husband Charged With Jan. 6 Crimes at US Capitol
More than two months after his wife was charged with four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, Spencer Sidney Geller has been charged by federal prosecutors with five counts, inclu...
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Officer Brian Sicknick Some of the most dramatic CCTV footage acquired by The Epoch Times showed the disabling of Capitol Police Officer #BrianSicknick, who died the day after the Capitol protest and riots of #Jan6. Mr. Sicknick died late on Jan. 7, 2021. His cause of death was two strokes. It was ruled a natural death by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Federal prosecutors charged 2 men with assaulting Mr. Sicknick with pepper spray: Julian Elie Khater, 34, of Somerset, New Jersey, and George P. Tanios, 41, of Morgantown, West Virginia.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
The video shows that just after 2:20 p.m., Mr. Sicknick and 2 MPD officers charged out into the crowd of rioters, who had been pulling over security barriers with a thick freight strap. In the center, however, an MPD commander fired numerous bursts of pepper spray from a high-velocity tank that snaked 20 feet or more into the crowd, the video shows. Both the stream of pepper spray and a plume of cast-off caused by stiff winds passed near the left side of Sicknick’s face, the video shows. Mr. Sicknick quickly retreated from the scene, just ahead of a rioter who charged at him and an MPD officer. He rinsed out his eyes near the inauguration scaffolding, then climbed the southwest steps to the upper terrace. He remained on duty but collapsed at about 10 p.m. after officers noticed him slurring his speech.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Mr. Khater was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison on a plea deal for assault with a deadly weapon and other charges. Although he was initially charged with 12 criminal counts, Mr. Tanios pleaded guilty to 2 misdemeanors and was sentenced to time served, 1 year of probation, and a $1,800 fine. Mr. Khater's father and Mr. Tanios said they never saw the video before being shown the footage by The Epoch Times. “They [expletive] withheld this. Big time. Oh, my God. My God,” Mr. Tanios told The Epoch Times while watching the footage. Mr. Tanios said he believes the video should have been disclosed to his and Mr. Khater's defense teams as exculpatory evidence.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Elie Khater, Julian Khater's father, said the video is another example of the system being tipped against defendants. https://www.givesendgo.com/savejuliankhater "Since it is in Washington D.C., everything is stacked against the January sixers," Khater told The Epoch Times. "From the very beginning, they took this story and they just exaggerated, messed with the facts, lied about a lot of other things. We figured everything is stacked against us." Mr. Khater estimated he has amassed nearly $450,000 in legal fees defending his son in criminal and civil court. He said he is nearly out of resources to pay a civil attorney to represent his son in a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Sandra Garza, Mr. Sicknick's former girlfriend, against President Trump, Mr. Tanios, and Mr. Khater.
Help the Khaters Save Julian Khater
Julian Khater is a beloved son, brother, uncle, Godfather, and patriotic American who is facing a continued unjust legal battle due to attending the rally in...
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@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
@NYTimes published a 2021 story claiming Trump supporters smashed Sicknick's head with a fire extinguisher, causing his death. That claim was eventually retracted but is still repeated 30 months after Sicknick's death.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
The next claim was that his death was caused by a potent bear spray wielded by Khater and Tanios. While Tanios said he had bear spray canisters in his backpack in the event the men were attacked by #Antifa, the spray was never used. Khater had a Mace Brand KeyGuard pepper spray canister he received from Tanios on the evening of Jan. 5. The pocket-size flip-top device was used to spray the officers, according to prosecutors. The manufacturer says the canister emits a thin stream of pepper spray up to 10 feet. Tanios said he did not realize that Khater had used the Mace canister until months after #Jan6.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Oath Keepers When 5 #OathKeepers defendants went on trial in September 2022 for alleged seditious conspiracy to attack the Capitol on #Jan6, a key piece of prosecution evidence was an alleged 3-way phone call initiated by Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III. Prosecutors alleged Rhodes spoke with Florida Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs and Jan. 6 operations director Michael “Whip” Greene with instructions to attack the Capitol. Defense attorneys argued the call never happened, and the communications Rhodes attempted that afternoon were meant to tell the Oath Keepers to get away from the Capitol, not attack it.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Video discovered by @EpochTimes shows one of the exterior terrace-level cameras was trained on Rhodes while he stood on the Upper Northwest Terrace at the Capitol between 2:51 p.m. and nearly 3:00 p.m. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-capitol-surveillance-video-never-shown-to-defense-oath-keepers-founder-says-5444945?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub In the video, Rhodes appeared to be attempting cell phone calls but was not having success. It appeared that he was interviewed briefly by a podcaster, then continued trying to make calls, the video shows.
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Surveillance Video Never Shown to Defense, Oath Keepers Founder Says
Capitol Police captured Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III on a closed-circuit security camera on Jan. 6, 2021—video that Mr. Rhodes says was never provided to him or his defense team before...
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"I never saw it," Mr. Rhodes told The Epoch Times in a June phone interview from jail, referring to the nine minutes of CCTV video. Mr. Rhodes said the idea that he was being surveilled is "really creepy." Mr. Rhodes and Ms. SoRelle appeared on the left side of the camera view at 2:51:36 p.m., the CCTV video shows. The unidentified Oath Keeper followed Mr. Rhodes into the camera view shortly after. The man was likely providing security for Ms. SoRelle, one of Mr. Rhodes's attorneys told The Epoch Times. "I don’t remember seeing this video,” one of Mr. Rhodes’ defense attorneys, Edward Tarpley, told The Epoch Times. “It may have been in discovery, but I certainly didn’t see it. We were given thousands of videos to review. It seems pretty clear to me that someone actually was following Stewart on the ground with the video camera.”
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The video is significant because it could back up testimony given by Mr. Rhodes in #FBI interviews and in court testimony that he was attempting to get Oath Keepers away from the Capitol, not to attack it. “I was trying to call them, to get them to come to us, to get them to come to me and Whip,” Mr. Rhodes told the FBI in May 2021. “That's all it was. I couldn't get any [expletive] comms.” Mr. Tarpley said he considers the newly revealed security video to be exculpatory evidence that should have been turned over by prosecutors. “The government argued that Stewart‘s messages to everyone to come to the Capitol were his call to action for them to come and attack the Capitol,” Mr. Tarpley said. “Of course, we know that is totally false.” Defense attorney Brad Geyer, who represented Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson in the same trial as Mr. Rhodes, said the defense presented evidence that the call never happened. "The defense maintains that no communication occurred between Meggs and Rhodes," Mr. Geyer said. "This video confirms that Rhodes was having operability issues with his phone and it also may suggest that Rhodes was being monitored on January 6 by law enforcement."
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Rosanne Boyland The death of #RosanneBoyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, remains one of the biggest tragedies of #Jan6. Ms. Boyland came to Washington to hear President Trump speak at the Ellipse. She made her way to the Capitol and wandered into the Lower West Terrace tunnel just before an unknown gas was released in the crowed tunnel.
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Information uncovered in this video investigation filled in a lot of details on what happened to Ms. Boyland after her lifeless body was pulled into the Capitol just after 4:30 p.m. on #Jan6. The CCTV footage shows that after medics in the Capitol basement tried to resuscitate her, Ms. Boyland was moved up one level and carted through the Crypt to meet D.C. Fire and EMS Department paramedics near the House Wing Door.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-security-footage-undermines-key-claims-in-police-report-in-death-of-rosanne-boyland-on-jan-6-post-5414489?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Despite early Capitol Police reports that she collapsed in the Rotunda at 5:00 p.m., the video shows that was impossible, as was the notion paramedics came upon 2 unnamed Capitol Police officers doing CPR on Ms. Boyland. Dramatic resuscitation efforts continued near the House Wing Door for another 40 minutes before Ms. Boyland was placed in an ambulance for transport to George Washington University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Epoch Times learned from Ms. Boyland's family that she was shot in the chest by a pepper ball fired by a police officer at the rear of the Lower West Terrace tunnel. The Boyland family was told by witnesses that the pepper ball shot is what caused Ms. Boyland to fall and become trapped by the stampeding crowd.
EXCLUSIVE: Security Footage Undermines Key Claims in Police Report in Death of Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6
After CPR and other lifesaving efforts inside a basement entrance to the U.S. Capitol failed, Jan. 6 protester Rosanne M. Boyland was moved up one level to the Crypt, where D.C. Fire and EMS Department...
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One of Ms. Boyland's sisters noticed a large, dark bruise on her left shoulder in a Getty Images photograph run with a July 24 Epoch Times article on Ms. Boyland's case. No shoulder injuries were documented in the emergency room notes or in the autopsy done by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Nor was the head wound above Ms. Boyland's right eye documented. That injury was possibly sustained when a Metropolitan Police Department Officer beat an unresponsive Ms. Boyland with a wooden walking stick as previously reported by The Epoch Times based on police bodycam footage.
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Death of Benjamin Philips https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-security-video-challenges-the-narrative-on-first-man-to-die-at-capitol-on-jan-6-post-5452312?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Security video challenged the longstanding narrative that Benjamin James Philips—the first of 4 Trump supporters to die on #Jan6—was struck by a police munition before he collapsed from a fatal cardiac event. Video from a far-away west dome camera seems to show someone stumbling and collapsing behind the inauguration scaffolding on the Capitol's west front at 12:59:17 p.m. That area of the grounds was breached by protesters at 12:58:52 p.m., shortly after a much larger crowd breached the low iron fence protecting the west plaza. Overhead security video shows the first munitions used on the huge crowd were deployed at 1:10 p.m. on the south end of the west plaza.
EXCLUSIVE: Security Video Challenges the Narrative on First Man to Die at Capitol on Jan. 6
Capitol Police closed-circuit-television footage obtained by The Epoch Times calls into question the popular narrative that Benjamin James Philips was struck by a police munition before he collapsed fr...
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"I got a crowd fighting with officers, pushing, throwing projectiles," Deputy Chief Eric Waldow broadcast at 1:06 p.m. "I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less-than-lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch, launch, launch!" The first munitions were not deployed until 1:10 p.m. The first closeup video of Mr. Philips begins at 1:02:51 p.m. when the U.S. Capitol Police Command Center trained one of its security cameras on the area where he fell. Bystanders and a Capitol Police officer took turns doing chest compressions. The first call for help went out over the USCP radio at 1:04 p.m., according to Jan. 6 audio recordings obtained by The Epoch Times. “Can you please have someone respond to my location with an AED [automated external defibrillator]? The bottom of the west front with an individual that’s down here, unconscious and not breathing,” a female officer broadcast on the main U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) radio channel. At about 1:15 p.m., an out-of-breath officer announced that the D.C. Fire and EMS Department rescue squad wouldn't come down to the scaffolding where Mr. Philips lay on the sidewalk. “They are bringing the patient up to the ambulance right now,” he shouted on the radio. “They are refusing to come down.” Bystanders and police placed Mr. Philips on a section of a bike rack and carried it like a battlefield stretcher to the ambulance some 100 yards away. He was turned over to paramedics at 1:19 p.m. He was later pronounced dead. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Mr. Philips died from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. His manner of death was listed by the pathologist, Dr. Fernando Diaz, as "natural."
@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times
Sweeping the Capitol After U.S. Air Force veteran #AshliBabbitt, 35, was shot by Capitol Police near the House Chamber at 2:45 p.m., police made aggressive efforts to push all of the protesters out of the Capitol. The Epoch Times obtained CCTV security video showing SWAT teams clearing the Capitol. Officers from Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department formed skirmish lines and pushed groups of protesters toward the exits while chanting, "Move back! Move back! Move back!" A large contingent of police pushed protesters across the Great Rotunda and forced them out through the exits.
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At the same time, tactical teams from the @ATFHQ and other federal agencies began sweeping the upper floors of the Capitol to ensure no protesters were left. With rifles raised and SureFire tactical lights illuminating their paths, the tactical teams moved methodically through the building. At one point, an ATF tactical team came around the corner near @SpeakerPelosi's office. A stunned Capitol Police officer in the otherwise empty hallway threw his hands in the air as if to surrender.
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/END/ The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video Watch exclusively on @EpochTV👉https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Read the full article👉https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-capitol-hill-security-footage-challenges-jan-6-narratives-5454274?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub
EXCLUSIVE: The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video
The Epoch Times was given access to tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol Police security video ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives
The Epoch Times earlier this year began investigating 41,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police Jan. 6 security video.Starting in late April, the newspaper scrubbed through hundreds of hours of video that wa...
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@TruthSeeker____ - JoshWho
If you don't watch this, then you don't want to know the truth what happened that day.
reSee.it AI Summary
I spent hours digging into the events of January 6, aiming to uncover information often obscured by mainstream narratives. I shared details about various legal cases, including a 69-year-old grandmother who faced serious charges but ended up with a plea deal. I highlighted instances of Capitol Police interacting with protesters, raising questions about the narrative of violence. I also discussed the role of informants and the perceived discrepancies in justice, particularly regarding the treatment of different individuals involved. Additionally, I touched on the tragic case of Ashli Babbitt and the ongoing legal battles surrounding the events of that day.
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Spent hours researching truth about Jan 6 for some normies, so i'm making a thread w the hard-to-find info buried in all the propaganda. if u have anything u want to add, please post it bellow. starting w DOJ's official record of Capital Breech Cases: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
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@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
some cases have charges like this: 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1) 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D) 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G) these are what prosecutors accused a 69 y/o granny W/ CANCER of doing. she ended up taking a plea deal: 60 days in jail + 3 YEARS probation
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
This is a 69-year-old grandmother convicted for a misdemeanor of demonstrating, parading or picketing in U.S. Capitol Building original charges were dropped: 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1) 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D) 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G) what were they?
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
18 U.S. Code § 1752 (a:1) (a:2) Restricted building or grounds Whoever— (1)knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds w/out lawful authority to do so (2)knowingly, and w intent 2 impede/disrupt orderly conduct of Government business or official functions
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Robert Smigel & co entered the Capital building on 2 separate occasions... ...members of the group had been told at various points by the U.S. Capitol Police that they were supposed to have an escort.” they didn't, yet DOJ dropped trespassing charges 🤔 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-colbert-team-capitol-hill-charges-dropped-b2126223.html
Colbert team no longer facing trespassing charges for entering Capitol building
Show’s production team included Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
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@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
“The Office would be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these invited guests were guilty of the crime of unlawful entry because their escort chose to leave them unattended.” suuure. that, ladies & gents is what we call 2-tiered justice. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-colbert-team-capitol-hill-charges-dropped-b2126223.html
Colbert team no longer facing trespassing charges for entering Capitol building
Show’s production team included Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
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@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Capital Police removed barriers and took selfies with protestors on Jan 6: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Rioters WALK Through Capitol Building, Statuary Hall Outside of House Chamber. like all RIOTERS, they respectfully maneuver between the velvet ropes, while taking pictures & enjoying the Capital Polices' tour of the building. those destructive SOBs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGXkMmtl6I
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
here's some more footage of Jan 6 protestors calmly walking around in the capital w/ police fist bumping and looking on. how many of these people were punished for taking this "tour?"
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Alarming new footage of US Capitol siege shows rioters ransacking and praying in the Senate Chamber as well as thanking police for letting them in. since WHEN are praying & thanking police officers considered "alarming" behavior? am i missing something? https://www.facebook.com/9News/videos/new-footage-shows-us-rioters-thanking-police-for-letting-them-in/2309321259199602/
137K views · 1K reactions | Alarming new footage of the US Capitol siege shows rioters ransacking and praying in the Senate Chamber as well as thanking police for letting them in.
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Alarming new footage of the US Capitol siege shows rioters ransacking and praying in the Senate Chamber as well as thanking police for letting them in....
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@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
The story of @AmericaShaman Jacob Chansley was nicknamed The Q ANON Shaman by the media. They lied about him for YEARS. refusing to release video footage showing Capital police escorting him around the building and leading a prayer on the Senate floor. https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/jan-6-footage-shows-cops-bringing-qanon-shaman-to-senate-floor/
Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor
Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the be-horned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot.
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@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
@AmericaShaman Jacob Chansley repeats President Trump's request for protesters to peacefully go home.
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👀FBI Director Christopher Wray refuses to answer: - whether there were confidential human sources embedded w/in Jan 6 protestors. - whether there were confidential human sources dressed as Trump Supporters INSIDE the capital prior to doors being opened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCIj7J5wNWc
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@PamelaEdwards and i are polar opposites on Jan 6 but i missed some stuff due to the Jan 6 Committee's emotionally manipulative & deceptively edited propaganda. they added MUSIC ffs! here's a well compiled Jan 6 thread from a different perspective:
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Nancy Pelosi & daughter were ready for Jan 6. her daughter was recording it. wonder why...? could it have anything to do w Nancy calling off extra security & protection President Trump offered? This part of the thread will look into Pelosi's actions & motivations.
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Nancy Pelosi’s daughter filmed every move w an entire crew. How would she know to do that? Pelosi declined additional security 4 Capitol Building. Why? Jan 6 committee established BY Pelosi doctored footage, withheld footage, then DELETED evidence.…
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i'll add more info w sources, including link to @RobGouveiaEsq breaking down Trump's DC Jan 6 hearing, where we found out Biden's Admin & Jan 6 Committee DELETED HUNDREDS of hours of footage, interviews & testimonies. they said it's LOST oops. u don't "lose" anything on purpose🤔
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Jan 6 cops shot pepper spray guns at protestors B4 breech. KARMA kicks in as the wind blows the spray back in their faces. coughing & choking ensues. COPS ATTACKED FIRST. ONLY injury in this video, a cop coughing from the pepper spray, was self-inflicted.
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a few seconds before cops start shooting pepper balls and spray the Jan 5 protestors w tear gas - they KNEW it would make the crowd angrier and the situation more dangerous - they did it anyway.
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Jan 6 protestors were funneled into ONE area where they were hit, shot at, gassed, and assaulted with flashbang grenades. this was before any breach happened. Really based guy sums things up at the end.
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slowed down video of what capital police did to peaceful protesters after cutting off entrances and corralling/trapping them into ONE area:
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Jan 6 INSURRECTIONISTS caught in action! https://d2hxwnssq7ss7g.cloudfront.net/Cg3gG8trkats_cvt.mp4
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Julie Farnam's running for public office in VA! She was hired by Capitol Police specifically at the recommendation of Yogananda Pittman to be the Trojan Horse to scramble the Intel leading up to J6 so that day could be as bad as possible. TREASONOUS SCUM
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Tarik Johnson wrote the previous message to Julie Farnam. He is a former lieutenant w/ the U.S. Capital Police. His goals are J6 justice & to create National UNITY. It is he who if u care about Jan 6, follow @elleonCEOTK
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Tarik Johnson is a former lieutenant w/ the U.S. Capital Police. His goals are J6 justice & to create National UNITY. if u care about Jan 6, follow @elleonCEOTK
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Ashli Babbitt murdered 00:40 unarmed & pushed by the crowd, she stood in the window frame and was shot IN THE NECK by trigger happy capital police. she bled out on the capital floor. her MURDERER was cleared of wrongdoing. i want justice for Ashli Babbitt!
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
Ashli Babbitt's Family sues the government 4 wrongful death: Michael Byrd didn't warn her b4 he shot her DEAD. He once left his LOADED gun in the Capital bathroom. He shot at teenagers stealing his car hitting the side of houses! 1:26:00 Lawsuit breakdown https://youtu.be/EVf4wgpwHa4
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Epoch Time's The REAL Story of January 6th movie & timeline breakdown thread:
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The story of Harry Dunn, a Capital Police officer running for congress, who's not AT ALL who he seems. just watch his campaign video. yes this is REAL.
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@SteveBakerUSA - Steve Baker
In @theblaze's Oct. 4th story about Special Agent Lazarus, we were able to show, in great detail, what he testified to witnessing between @CapitolPolice Officer Harry Dunn (@libradunn) and four Oath Keepers on #Jan6, he simply could not have seen... ⬇️ https://www.theblaze.com/columns/analysis/analysis-did-pelosis-security-chief-perjure-himself-in-oath-keepers-trial
Analysis: Did Pelosi’s security chief perjure himself in Oath Keepers trial? | Blaze Media
The Capitol Police officer assigned to the protective detail of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on January 6, 2021, appears to have given false testimony about his whereabouts during a key encounter with members of the Oath Keepers, according to an examination of Capitol closed-circuit TV vi...
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Tucker's Jan 6 X take: 01:10 Christopher Wray v. Clay Higgins, were "Confidential Human Sources" inside the capital? 05:00 IT'S A TRAP - FBI INFILTRATION 18:00 200+ FBI ASSETS/CHS 25:00 Government w/in Government 29:00 Ashli Babbitt 35:00 Conclusion https://t.co/RgSHEXvLUO
@redpilledkitty - 🍊Vermont Red Pill 💊
i tried to explain how the judge wouldn't allow evidence of Jan 6 Confidential Human Sources to be presented to the jury. as usual, i was met w/ resistance from a "true believer"🙄 this podcast has the transcript proof. open thread for timeline breakdown. https://youtu.be/hKYB77EPYms
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@Courts_Gaming @WizardLevel @ElliottWaveTech @EpochTimes @VivekGRamaswamy 08:00 defense files motion to dismiss due to Brady violations "Defendents are now aware of 50+ informants but the government is withholding the evidence." prosecution slow to disclose info about CHS involving Proud Boys - including some that were the PRESIDENTS of their chapters! https://t.co/iEr0qcNEyq
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18:00 Summary Report of Activity for Electronic Surveillance Unit: December 12th-Jan 6th. Sgt. Tyrone Harris Sgt Jacob Lipscomb Kenneth Boone Anthony Faverio Keith Green John Streets Roy Melvin Ryan Roe Ricardo Leiva Oliver Lake Amir Abdalla Albert Sabir WHERE are the rest?
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19:00 UNDERCOVER Officer Tomasula wasn't added to the list given to defense attorneys. WHY NOT? according to Tomasula, he was "not assigned in the same way". whatever the f*ck that means. do u see how they play games? the government twists the law to fit their narrative.
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20:00 Tomasula answers a 10-33 code by Officer Glover: go 2 Trump's speech & "blend in with the crowd." Code 10-33 means "Emergency All Units Stand By". there were 10-12 other people from Tomasula's (previously not-disclosed) unit there. Michael Callahan & Scott Brown among them
@alx - ALX 🇺🇸
BREAKING: All 44,000 hours of footage from January 6th has been publicly released by House Speaker Mike Johnson. View the J6 tapes here: https://cha.house.gov/cha-subcommittee-reading-room-fe781e74-d577-4f64-93cc-fc3a8dd8df18
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The J6 true Timeline holy hell this messed me up. 😱 They Lied it was a trap for the people, look at this 5 min timeline. 😢
@Truth_InMedia - Truth In Media
What are they still hiding about January 6th? Take a look at some of what we've uncovered so far on "The Rest of the Story" with @laralogan. https://t.co/BXdRp6g0XE
Video Transcript AI Summary
This video discusses the events of January 6th and raises questions about the government's involvement and potential setup. It features interviews with individuals affected by the aftermath of the Capitol breach, including Matthew Perna's family and the Brunson brothers. The Brunson brothers, who are not lawyers, filed lawsuits against Congress for failing to investigate election fraud allegations. The video also highlights the presence of undercover agents and informants during the Capitol breach. The committee investigating security failures on January 6th has identified an undercover officer, Nicholas Thomasula, who can be heard urging the crowd to advance. The video ends with a discussion about the potential cover-ups and the need for the truth to be revealed.
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Speaker 0: They came from every corner of this nation. Around a 1000000 voices raised, now silenced from prison to the grave. There are American citizens sitting behind bars
Speaker 1: Mhmm.
Speaker 0: Who haven't had a trial
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 0: Some of them for 2 years, some of them going on 3 years.
Speaker 3: There are people that we have willing to talk to us right now. They're scared for their life.
Speaker 0: Is it potentially the biggest setup in the history of this country? Potentially. What are they still hiding about January 6th? What don't they want you to know? Take a look at what we've uncovered so far On the rest of the story with Lara Logan.
The last thing Matthew Perna expected after turning himself in for nonviolent offenses and pleading guilty was for the government to try to add years behind bars at the 11th hour, but that's exactly what prosecutors were planning, Only they never got the chance. You had a conversation with the prosecutor. Can you tell us about that?
Speaker 4: Yes. So he says, let me start off by saying that there are many people in my department that felt very bad that Matthew decided to take his life. I said, really? There are many people in your department, including you, who are the reason Matthew took his life. He hanged himself because of the people in your department.
He said, again, I am very sorry for your that your nephew took his life. And I said, I hope that every night before you go to bed, the last thing you think of is the name Matthew Perna and the role you played in his death.
Speaker 0: Matthew Perna's fate was sealed the moment his face appeared on this FBI wanted poster, his aunt said. Suspect number 73 stood out in his red Trump sweatshirt As cameras recorded him inside the capital, roughly 14 minutes, that cost him his business, his reputation, and the woman he planned to marry.
Speaker 4: I just stepped my foot in the tub, and my phone rang. And it was one of my brothers. And I said, Jerry, you need to get a plane ticket and come home. Matt just hang himself in his garage.
Speaker 0: They broke him.
Speaker 4: They completely broke him, and they broke his heart.
Speaker 0: And they knew what they were doing? Yes. What was it about his case that struck you?
Speaker 5: To see somebody That was a victim of our own Department of Justice, and especially somebody as peaceable and caring As Matthew obviously was, shame on anybody that doesn't care how the system abused this poor guy. It it's just too tragic. It we shouldn't have a repeat of that.
Speaker 0: From the start, Matthew saw things that did not fit the official narrative, And later that night, loudly called out those he believed responsible.
Speaker 6: Antifa was disguised as Trump supporters today. Yeah. And they were the ones Who really led the charge into the capitol building?
Speaker 2: We love the police, but a few empty fuck dressed up as Trump supporters Have you're causing violence and stirring up violence here at the Capitol steps, and they're playing on the emotions of you and every patriotic American. This is not right.
Speaker 0: When masked men started smashing windows, protesters objected and stepped in to stop them, Taking out this man first, then tackling another who'd stepped in to finish the job while the crowd Chanted. In this footage from January 6, a plainclothes officer from the Metropolitan Police Department, Badge, briefly visible, was captured talking to a Capitol police officer and told him
Speaker 7: Well, he go undercover his antique in a crowd. So
Speaker 0: Do you believe this was a setup? This was an intel operation?
Speaker 5: These people came to Washington to protest, but the masses had no intention to be involved in any violence at all.
Speaker 0: So you're dodging the question.
Speaker 5: I do think that a lot of what happened was stirred up by the federal government. There were people involved that manipulated them.
Speaker 0: They were framed.
Speaker 5: They were framed.
Speaker 0: 43 year old Marcus Priester grew up a stone's throw away from his friend in one of the 5 small communities that stretch across the Shenango Valley. And for him, the loss was beyond measure.
Speaker 1: I had so much anger in my heart, And I prayed for God to take that anger away. Yeah. I'll I'll never I'll never fill that void.
Speaker 0: Best friend you ever had?
Speaker 1: Best friend I ever had.
Speaker 0: I suppose it's a gift.
Speaker 1: I was blessed To be a part of his life. You know, he had many friends. I was just one of his.
Speaker 0: Summer was just settling in to the Chenango Valley where the forest reaches from western Pennsylvania into When we met up with Marcus Priester, he and Matthew Purna would come here to run the rocky dirt Trails, but also to listen and be still. It was a little more than a year since his best friend had killed himself. And this time he was taking Matthew's friends and family on a pilgrimage of sorts To a clearing deep in the forest where Marcus and Matthew's uncle Ron had scattered some of his ashes and planted a tree in his memory. Wow. This was Matthew Church.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Beautiful. Serenity.
Speaker 0: For Gerry Perna, in some ways, life stopped when Matthew died. But there was one moment as unexpected as it was comforting, when an honor guard from Ohio Stood with them as they said goodbye to Matthew.
Speaker 4: That night of the viewing, there were 2 officers there, And they took turns. We were all confused.
Speaker 0: We were in shock.
Speaker 4: Yeah. We we didn't understand why there was an honor card there. They had an American flag, and they did a flag folding ceremony. And they handed the flag to my brother. And after the funeral, my brother Said to them, I'm grateful that you came, but Matt wasn't in the service.
And they said, Matt was more of a patriot than most every veteran we've ever done a funeral for. That's what they said, and they handed Larry the flag.
Speaker 0: The words carved into the stone of the highest court in the land still read this under law. 4 brothers from Utah are testing that theory. They didn't go to the capital, but like many of those who did, they believe the most Powerful politicians in this nation aren't doing their duty. When we heard 4 brothers better known for blasting their horns than practicing law had weighed in on the 2020 election controversy and were suing congress for failing to investigate charges of fraud. We tracked them down earlier this year In the Rocky Mountain city of Provo, Utah, where they're from, to find out what they were thinking.
Speaker 8: War puts in the power its victor. A regulation does the exact same thing. It puts in a power. It's victor only there's not a loss of life and property.
Speaker 0: Meet Darren Brunson. Of the 4 brothers, believe it or not, he's the quieter one. He's not a lawyer, but he started suing banks years ago, and he's the legal brain behind the Brunson lawsuits. Then there's Loy, also known by his middle name, Arlen. He's the oldest, once ran for local office, Published a pocket constitution with all the founding documents, and at an event, got president Trump to answer his questions on the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 7: Hello, mister Trump. My name is Lloyd Brunson. You've inspired I'm over here on your right.
Speaker 9: Oh, you
Speaker 0: can go That's the one
Speaker 2: I wanna do. That's weird.
Speaker 0: Not to be overlooked, Rawlin Brunson. He's the funny one.
Speaker 8: She's looking at me and she's looking
Speaker 7: at me like this and goes, Alright. I'll take your $300.
Speaker 0: With a quick smile and a lot to say.
Speaker 7: I got my brother-in-law here talking to a gal. You know? And Yeah. My brother Gaynor here. He's wondering what he's gonna be doing next.
Speaker 0: At 60, Gaynor's the baby of the family And the only one who made music his full time career with a professional recording studio and a talent for drums that rivals his lips. In their emergency petition, the Brunson's had argued That lawmakers immunity from prosecution violated the first amendment rights of American citizens. That's because in the first amendment, The founding fathers also guaranteed the freedom to petition for redress of grievances. The Brunson's asserted that meant elected officials We're not immune from the lawsuits of everyday citizens. But over nearly 2 years, every court including the Supreme Court declined to hear their cases.
For anyone but the Brunssons, that would have likely been the end. What's the evidence?
Speaker 2: It's
Speaker 7: not about whether there was enough evidence or not to make to change the outcome. That's not what this case is about, really.
Speaker 0: This is about What is it about, Lauren?
Speaker 7: It's about investigating to make sure that the conclusions are Sound and correct and true.
Speaker 0: Well, I don't believe there was fraud in the election. What if what if they say that?
Speaker 9: Well
Speaker 0: You're putting our democracy at risk, Lloyd.
Speaker 10: What exactly are we putting at risk? What exactly are we threatening?
Speaker 0: Well, you're threatening people's faith in the elections. This election has already been declared The most secure election in history, and there's been hundreds of court cases that have failed. And you are shaking the foundations of this country because if people don't accept the results, it's damaging.
Speaker 8: You know what I say? What? Good. Because your faith should be shaken up. Because if you don't, You're gonna see hell pour upon you like you've never seen before in this country.
We're fast moving in the wrong direction. Yes. We're gonna shake your faith with what is called the truth. Do you wanna see the truth? If you're afraid of the truth, then, yeah, you shouldn't be here.
You should wanna know the truth.
Speaker 0: The Brunssons are really just a band of loyal brothers
Speaker 11: Who
Speaker 0: grew up in a time and a family where defending the constitution was still regarded as a sacred duty, not an act of domestic terror. In front of a studio wall lined with photographs and legendary faces, we took a stroll down memory lane.
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 0: Okay. But what about
Speaker 4: that one up there, the White House?
Speaker 0: What does it say taking a tour at night?
Speaker 12: Oh, yeah. The Secret Service gave us a private tour in the evening, then They took us on a tour of the Oval Office, and this stuff was just us.
Speaker 0: Here are the Brunson Brothers. They performed for that same president In the NBC Christmas special in Washington DC in 1988, Taught Regis how to blow the horn
Speaker 8: first thing you have to do is you have to make make a buzz sound from your list. Like,
Speaker 0: Alright. Great. Great. Led the kickoff classic halftime show at New York Giants Stadium. The music that's all led by the Brunson Brothers.
Their act Drew the attention of the famous and the soon to be things.
Speaker 7: We were playing at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. After the show, we would be there and sign. We had Our albums, and we would sign them, and this young guy came up, and he says, you guys are so great, I wanna you bought an album. He says, could you please sign this? And he And I'm a musician, and I just auditioned for a TV show, and it's looked like it's gonna happen.
And it's called now remember this. It's gonna be called 21 Jump Street. Wow. So what shirt is this? Johnny Depp.
Remember that.
Speaker 0: Are you Trump lovers? Would you be doing this if it wasn't Trump?
Speaker 10: Absolutely. In fact, even in the case we're talking about, it it has nothing to do with Trump.
Speaker 7: That's not what this is about. This is not about the results of an election. This is about, violating their oath of office by not investigating an election. Well, actually. See, we're asking that both sides be removed, not just Democrats, but Republicans as well.
Speaker 0: Many think the Brunson Brothers' legal theories are fanciful, Not grounded in statutory or constitutional law. They were hoping to settle that at the Supreme Court. Rollins' case did make it onto the docket twice, and so did Lloyd's.
Speaker 8: They have an obligation, even under their oath, as supreme court justices, To protect and defend the constitution Where
Speaker 0: is it? They that the remedy to that is that they can remove every member of congress that voted for it and the president and so on and so on. Because over and over and over and over again, the legal opinions are that that supreme court does not have that
Speaker 10: We are hit with that question all the times. They have actually broken a constitutional law. And you're saying, well, what law was that? What's the oath of office? Okay.
So who gets to judge them? When you break your oath of office, when you committed that crime, you are now, Automatically, according to article 3, in the jurisdiction of the
Speaker 2: Judicial.
Speaker 10: Judicial branch, automatically. And they get to judge that.
Speaker 0: Unfortunately for the Brunson brothers, they did not get to make their argument before the Supreme Court justices, As these letters they received from the clerk of the court show, their petition was denied every time, no reason given.
Speaker 8: And you gotta remember, sometimes, when you go to battle, sometimes, you might lose the 1st battle. You might lose the 2nd battle, but you may end up Winning the war.
Speaker 12: I'm just so blown away by these guys.
Speaker 2: Hey, Renee. That's nuts and out there.
Speaker 0: No. Tell me.
Speaker 12: Okay. Well, yeah, these guys I mean, the only way we can have freedom is that people want freedom more than life. And that's the attitude that it took to get what we have. Now, everyone that hasn't really worked for the freedom, Hasn't sacrificed for it. They're the ones 1st in line to sell it.
And so what these guys have done is they've given up their time. They are eating And drinking and sleepingness, and they are praying. And I'm just telling you that I believe they need To be heard, and it's so awesome because now they're being heard, and you're giving them a chance
Speaker 2: to be heard.
Speaker 0: Did undercover agents or Assets for the federal government agitate people to go into the capital and encourage or incite violence. In short, was January 6 a kind of set up, more of a Fed's direction than an insurrection? It was a moment that will live in infamy at an informal stop the steal rally in Washington DC On the eve of January 6th when people in the crowd turned on a 58 year old man with a lot to say. That man was Rex.
Speaker 11: No. I'm gonna put it
Speaker 13: out there. I'm probably gonna go to jail for it.
Speaker 2: Okay? Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capital. Into the capital. No. No.
No. Peaceful. Dead. Dead.
Speaker 0: Take me back to that moment. Take me back to the moment when you looked at Ray Epps and the thought came into your head And you said Ted. Ted. Ted.
Speaker 2: Ted. Ted. Ted.
Speaker 14: Right when he said that, something clicked into my head. I was, like, woah. This is scripted because he said the same exact line word for word
Speaker 0: And that's not natural.
Speaker 14: It's not natural. And he was he kept saying, none of this matters, tomorrow we need to go in to the capitol. Maybe the first time he's being silly or Saying something crazy. But when he said it the 3rd time, word for word, I knew there's a strong possibility this guy's a fed.
Speaker 0: To be clear, Because it's very difficult to prove these things.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 0: Nobody is saying for certain, Ray Epps is A confidential source, he, of course, denies it.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 0: And his attorney denies it. He's taken legal action against people who say it, and he has many cheerleaders in the media.
Speaker 14: Yeah. The New York Times, the January 6th Commission, Liz Cheney.
Speaker 0: 60 minutes.
Speaker 14: What? 60 minutes?
Speaker 0: Then when things were dying down, shortly before midnight, we discovered another conversation we hadn't Seen or heard before.
Speaker 2: I just buy the anti gun. I stood and down myself with the army then. I respect that. Queen Creek, Arizona. That's where that's where I live.
Are you my neighbor? I care. Get out
Speaker 9: of there.
Speaker 2: I live in Queen Creek.
Speaker 13: I wanna choke you, man.
Speaker 2: Wait. This guy's antagonizing me, man. Maybe it's because you're my neighbor.
Speaker 0: Then he leaned in and whispered something he apparently did not want to say out loud.
Speaker 3: We're not here to We're here
Speaker 2: to you're the storm. I'm not kidding you. We're here to storm the capital. Hell, yeah. Alright.
Have Have a good night. Be safe, Owen. Be safe, brother.
Speaker 0: That one moment changed what we knew about Reyes that night When he whispered, storm the capital, before it had happened and echoed the official narrative before it was broadcast across the nation. It turned out January 5th was not the 1st time Rea Epps encountered Big Tallaska. You can see him circling During this live stream recorded by Big Tallaska at a stop the steal rally in Phoenix on November 30th, shortly after the 2020 election. It appeared to have been scrubbed from the Internet. Here, it showed Raheps pacing back and forth a short way from Bate Alaska Who seemed to have his attention as he looked over in his direction repeatedly 13 times by our count.
Then Epps Stopped and pointed his camera right at him. Snagging a photo before putting his phone down and walking away. Only to reemerge on camera roughly a minute later, taking another photo in the same area. Wherever there was trouble to be found outside the capitol on January 6th, there was also a decent chance you could find Raef's.
Speaker 2: We are going to the capital.
Speaker 0: The self declared Trump supporter from Arizona wasn't just directing people.
Speaker 2: The capital's misdirection.
Speaker 0: He was at the 1st main breach around 12:52 PM with what the department of justice described in the statement of offense from his case As the vanguard of rioters, trespassing on restricted grounds and whispering into the ear of a man named Ryan Samsel, Who's in prison for what he did seconds later. Then Epps joined the flood of rioters who stormed through the downed barricades and breached the first line of defense according to the DOJ. A short way down the path, when rioters took down more barricades, The DOJ said Epps continued to penetrate the restricted grounds and headed for the west plaza, Also a restricted area. Thanks to his tall frame and red hat, you can make him out amidst the crowd at these barriers, where he is once again in the 1st group to break through and get past the police. Jim Haft runs the Gateway Pundit, An online news site that's been a thorn in the side of progressives and establishment censors ever since he started blogging some 20 years ago When the Internet was still fairly new, few have devoted as much time to covering January 6th as Haft and his team of reporters who've published well over a 1000 stories in two and a half years.
Speaker 15: We have video of Rahab's holding up this Huge MAGA sign, steel MAGA sign, and he's actually helping push it. Some of the men who were touching that sign, They're in prison today.
Speaker 14: As someone who, you know, people have called me a fit, I understand how serious it is. So, you know, I say this is allegedly this is what I believe. I I don't have, like, a smoking gun
Speaker 0: That you can prove it.
Speaker 14: Yeah. I can't I do know he was an oath keeper.
Speaker 0: We did confirm Raheps's involvement Years ago with the oath keepers as seen in this video from Tucson, Arizona in 2011 where Ray Epps is wearing the t shirt and marching along. This is the organization that according to the DOJ led the so called insurrection. Kate Hilton said she was at that event with Rhodes and Epps. What made you join the oath keepers?
Speaker 16: I like the concept Then the mission statement, which is the revere, follow the constitution, and It was directed at anyone that's taken the oath to remind them that regardless of what's going on around us, We are bound to that oath.
Speaker 0: Is there something sinister in that?
Speaker 16: No. Absolutely not. Unless you think the constitution's sinister.
Speaker 11: So I'm gonna put
Speaker 13: it out there. I'm probably gonna go to jail for
Speaker 2: the jail. Tomorrow. We need to go into the capitol.
Speaker 16: He's yelling, go into the capitol. That's Not something I, could see him saying. That's totally the opposite of the image that he had presented previously. In what way? Well, he was a marine, very disciplined.
They don't cross those lines.
Speaker 0: No.
Speaker 16: Yet here he was screaming to Total strangers should cross that line.
Speaker 0: Epps made it onto the FBI's list of unidentified January 6 suspects but was removed around 6 months later without being charged. That was taken by many as a sign he was being protected. But his criminal attorney, John told Politico he thought Epps was removed in part because he'd contacted the FBI and was no longer unidentified. However, we found other suspects who'd been identified and were still on the FBI list, Their pictures updated with a banner saying arrested. We also found Matthew Perna still on there more than a year and a half after he'd committed Suicide in February 2022.
The presence of undercover agents and informants amidst the crowd on January 6th has been coming to light and can no longer be dismissed as conspiracy. We turn to investigators like congressman Barry Loudermilk Since the FBI and DOJ won't comment, he's chairman of the house administration's oversight subcommittee investigating security failures around January 6th.
Speaker 3: There was 1 video clip that had made it out, in public that some people had claimed this was definitely a police officer. We verified that to be true.
Speaker 0: This is the clip recorded on the body cam of the undercover officer in question.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 0: He can be heard chanting
Speaker 2: USA. USA. USA.
Speaker 0: And at times, urging the crowd to advance.
Speaker 2: Go. Go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
That's
Speaker 1: it. It's tear gas. Tear gas.
Speaker 0: The committee has not made his name public yet, But he was identified to defense attorneys as officer Nicholas Thomasula. There is a video that has police officers on the west side by the fountain yelling at each other, and one of them says we're hurting innocent people. And they say, For every 1 we're pulling out, we're making 10 angrier.
Speaker 2: A lot of pain is applied
Speaker 12: when you
Speaker 2: hit innocent people. And and not only that, we're taking out 1, and 10 of them are getting It's it's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: You know, when you listen to that, you have the sense that the offices were set up for failure as much as the protesters. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And we've got a video of officers saying we were set up.
Speaker 9: They set us the fuck up. That's what they did. They set us
Speaker 2: the They
Speaker 9: set up 64 with Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2: And and
Speaker 9: then they answered 2 hours later. They set us up. They needed everybody right away. No. Right away.
They set us the fuck up. We
Speaker 0: Is it potentially the biggest setup in the history of this country?
Speaker 3: Potentially.
Speaker 0: One of the greatest crimes against the American people.
Speaker 3: That's why it's so important to get the truth with us. That's What we're working for and the cover ups that happened after January 6th is what I'm really after as well.
Speaker 0: What about the Republicans involved in those cover ups? I know it's hard for you to address those things. This is your own party, but this is the reality.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go where evidence leads.
Speaker 0: No matter what.
Speaker 3: No matter what.
Speaker 0: I'm gonna hold you to that.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: What happens then at that Moment when you find yourself inside the tunnel, what's the first thing you remember happening? I I was just trying to stand stand up and not be trampled. That's Where my focus was until they hit to the head.
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On January 6, 2021, a chaotic and tragic event unfolded at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Demonstrators gathered to protest the certification of the electoral votes for Joe Biden's presidency. The day started with peaceful rallies, but tensions escalated as the crowd grew. There were breaches of security, clashes with law enforcement, and the tragic death of several individuals. The timeline of events is complex and involves multiple locations and interactions between demonstrators and police. The situation remained tense for hours until the Capitol was finally declared secure. The events of January 6th have had a lasting impact on the nation and continue to be a topic of discussion and investigation.
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Speaker 0: January 6, 2021, Washington DC, the US Capitol Building, an event that has been reported on more than any other in modern history. Despite excessive coverage, articles, books, documentaries, and congressional inquiries, Many details about the timeline of events that day remain unknown to the public. Understanding what actually happened on January 6th without bias and with as much context as possible is extremely difficult. News organizations and mass media have controlled the story of that day. Big tech and social media companies have censored, shadow banned, and deplatformed eyewitness accounts, which further skews and misrepresents the truth from that day.
Many of us still do not know the names of those who were killed at the capital and the causes of their deaths. This video seeks to create a thorough and truthful timeline of the events of January 6th while shedding light on unheard stories, unseen footage, and new details. When facts are cherry picked for the sake of political narratives, We The People suffer. Truth, not agenda, is the motivation for this timeline. Prior to January 6, 2021, there had been a hundreds of peaceful rallies following the November 2020 election.
Polls showed that many Americans were concerned with election irregularities in key states that ended up deciding the presidential election for Joe Biden, none of these rallies ever turned violent. The morning of January 6th started no different than any of those other rallies. American citizens showing up together to express their First Amendment protected right to petition their government with a meaningful concern. The To properly understand the events that would soon unfold, it's important to acknowledge that there were many areas of interest that day where crowds were congregating. Those attending president Trump's speech assembled at the Ellipse, a 52 acre park located directly south of the White House and Elsewhere in Washington DC, crowds would assemble in the morning at both the west and the east side of the capitol.
Still others would loiter in the vicinity to await the next event that would take place that day, of which there were multiple permit holders in the area. At 11:41 AM, Ryan Samsel, a man who will later be pivotal in the first breach of the capital, crosses the street past multiple uniformed officers. Seconds later, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, wearing plain clothes, is seen crossing the same intersection. Sherwin would go on to lead the investigations of Samsel and hundreds of others. 4 minutes later, the same officer whose body cam recorded that interaction is moving through the crowd responding to a call of a person with a gun.
The crowd is compliant as the officers move through the space. They reach their intended target, and after a few minutes of questioning, let the man go. He had no firearm and was only carrying a knife.
Speaker 1: Someone saw that handle, they thought it was a handgun.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: This is my car. Okay?
Speaker 2: It's a no way.
Speaker 3: Questions or issues. Yeah. Alright. Be safe. Thank you.
You too. You
Speaker 1: guys be safe.
Speaker 0: President Trump took the microphone at 12:0:1 PM.
Speaker 4: Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I when I turned on today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't wanna show that.
Speaker 0: The president gave a speech that morning that was very similar in tone and in style to the many campaign speeches and post election speeches he had given to audiences around the country.
Speaker 3: I'm listening to the speech in my ear, thanks to Scott.
Speaker 0: At the exact time that Trump begins his speech, a live streamer is at Peace Circle at the precise location that the first capital barricade breach will occur 53 minutes later. You can see the metal bike rack fencing separating the street from the sidewalks in front of the capitol building. These area closed signs were posted in compliance with a restriction that went into effect September 7, 2020, due to the construction of the inauguration stage. At 12:0:4 PM, a group of demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, are seen walking west on Constitution Avenue toward First Street while being flanked by police officers from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 3: Well, we're We're being flanked by the DCP. 63,000,000.
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the Capitol. For context, let's hear the president's full remarks during this portion of his speech.
Speaker 4: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down. We're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the capitol, and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong.
We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes following these remarks, the group of Proud Boys and demonstrators seen previously being flanked by the DCMPD have stopped for lunch at a row of food trucks in front of the US Department of Labor on Constitution Avenue. Eddie Block, seen here in a scooter, tells a live streamer the immediate plans of the group.
Speaker 5: Where, where
Speaker 3: are we headed? We're heading back to the route. Oh, okay. Okay. Good time.
Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes after this interaction, at 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report a very large group heading to the Capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at approximately Seventh Street.
Speaker 3: Cruise are good, It does look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge ending east.
Speaker 0: At the same time, police body cam records police intervening between Trump supporters and a counter protester. The police encourage the crowd to keep marching toward the capitol.
Speaker 3: Come on, guys. Let's keep the march going.
Speaker 6: Let's keep it going. Let's keep it it going.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. During this time, a man named Ray Epps was filmed on the streets directing the crowd to the capitol building.
Speaker 3: As soon as president Trump is finished speaking, we are going to the capital in that direction. That's where our true problems lies. President Trump is done speaking. We are going to the capital. That's where our problem we are going to the Capitol.
Where our problems are. It's not direction.
Speaker 0: He was filmed the night prior, urging the crowd to go inside the capitol.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it out there. I'm probably gonna go to jail for it.
Speaker 3: Okay? Tomorrow, we need to go into the capital. Into the capital.
Speaker 0: The crowd surrounding him instantly calls him out as a fed. At 12:35 PM, Mike Pence's motorcade is seen heading to the capitol, turning left on Constitution Avenue from Louisiana Avenue.
Speaker 3: Call yourself. Anybody stay back. Stay back, please. Alright. Let's go.
Stay back.
Speaker 0: A minute later, at 12:30 6, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol. The vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM Eastern. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the Capitol. At this exact moment, President Trump is mentioning Mike Pence's upcoming certification at his speech on the Ellipse over a mile away.
Speaker 4: But now they see all this stuff. It's all come to life. Doesn't happen that fast. And they wanna recertify their votes. They wanna recertify.
But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: A minute later at 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the capital. There are 2 sets of metal barricades here, behind which only 5 capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. And waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capital, while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates.
Ryan Samsel, who we saw earlier in white hoodie and red baseball cap, approaches the police line. This would become the first major breach of the Capitol grounds grounds and skirmish with Capitol Police. We will show this crucial interaction in its entirety and use multiple angles to see what happens at this all important flash point. Ray Epps, who we just saw calling for demonstrators to enter the capital, can be seen approaching the front of the barricades and speaking to Ryan Samsel. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line.
After the gate is forcefully pushed forward, US Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards is knocked to the ground. Ryan Samsel immediately runs to her aid to help her get back on her feet. The first violent skirmish of the day between demonstrators and police had begun. President Trump remains speaking on the Ellipse.
Speaker 4: In Clark County, Nevada, the accuracy settings on signature verification machines were purposely lowered before they were used to count over 130,000 ballots. If you signed your name as Santa Claus, it would go through.
Speaker 0: Just to the south at the First Street Southwest in Maryland Avenue Circle, demonstrators knocked down a second gate. Crowds are now advancing on the west front of the capitol from 2 locations. Open. With multiple lightly manned police barricades down, the enlivened crowd makes their way quickly to the next barrier, the metal gates in front of the west plaza of the capital. Samsel can be seen tapping the shoulder of officer Edwards Edwards and saying something to her.
Looking over the west side of the capital from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza. From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. At 12:58 PM, the lightweight fencing on the west lawn is pulled down completely by a single person. It is on this fence that signs with the words area closed are affixed. Thousands of people who will walk up to the capitol after 1 PM will never see these signs.
Zooming in closer to the northwest corner of the plaza, we once again see Ray Epps at the head of the crowd, in front of the next set of police barricades. So far, we've seen him the previous day calling for the crowd to enter the capital. We saw him that morning directing people to the capital. We saw him at the 1st gate reach, and now here he is at the 2nd major gate reach. And it won't be the last we see him.
Directly in front of him is where the crowd reaches the metal gates and enters onto the west plaza of the capital. At 12:59 PM, a man on the northwest sidewalk collapses.
Speaker 1: Can you please have someone respond to my location? The bottom of the west side with an individual that's down here unconscious and not breached.
Speaker 0: The man's name is Benjamin Phillips. He is a computer programmer from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who traveled to DC to support president Trump. A crowd of people, including police officers, form around him to assist with life saving measures. While Benjamin Phillips fights for his life outside, inside the capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes. President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the capitol.
Speaker 4: Is there evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from president Trump to former vice president Biden.
Speaker 7: Madam speaker, members of congress, pursuant to the constitution and the laws of the United States, the senate and the house of representatives are meeting in joint session. Verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors of the several states for president and vice president of the United States.
Speaker 0: Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I need less lethal teams that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, stapling. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer, pushing, throwing projectiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less than lethal teeth positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch. Launch.
Launch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek.
Speaker 3: You're You're shooting us.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're not. We need medical something.
Speaker 3: We got a call.
Speaker 0: Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level.
Speaker 3: I was on the front line trying to to keep the peace between the patriot and the people that were hired by the government. And, I caught a shot to the face, and then, that's about it.
Speaker 0: Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 3: 6, I can't beat up. I need more Lee and Sesson leads our teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, non compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give multiple warnings about, chemical munitions being released.
They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system, as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. Just feet away, Benjamin Phillips fights for his life. He has been down on the ground and not breathing for 13 minutes.
Speaker 3: 1:30. Where's the ambulance for this guy on the lower west?
Speaker 0: President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the capitol in real time.
Speaker 4: So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and god bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: For Arizona.
Speaker 7: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 3: Yes. It is.
Speaker 0: As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back in the real time multi view, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his one hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States. Gosar and Cruz are having their objections to the electoral vote vote of Arizona read on the house floor.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that. Appreciate it.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 3: Hey. We need blast collision. What do we got? I'm panicking it. We gotta get something.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 15 PM, officer Thau crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD.
Speaker 3: True ACD deployment. True ACD.
Speaker 0: He then witnesses what he calls an APO or an assault on a police officer.
Speaker 3: APO, Kelly.
Speaker 0: With 30 officers between him and the crowd, it's unclear what assault he thought he saw in that moment. A few 100 feet away, back on the northwest sidewalk, Benjamin Phillips has been loaded onto a makeshift stretcher and is being carried north to a waiting ambulance.
Speaker 3: Thirty, they're hanging the patient up to the ambulance right now. They are refusing to come down.
Speaker 0: Tragically, Phillips would be pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Benjamin Phillips leaves behind 2 teenage children. Back inside the capitol building at 1:17 PM, vice president Mike Pence and senators return to the senate chamber to debate the electoral vote challenge put forth by representative Paul Gosar. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd. The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time.
3 minutes later, at 1:21 PM, the first explosive mission of the day is discharged. The demonstrators at the west plaza of the capital will be hit by an unrelenting barrage of grenades, incendiary, rubber bullets, and gas for the next hour.
Speaker 3: We got another individual down.
Speaker 0: To by people in the crowd.
Speaker 3: They can't get anybody in here, and the cops are throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
Speaker 0: He is unresponsive for several minutes. Fearing the risk of trampling, they carry him to a different location where they continue to try to resuscitate him.
Speaker 3: He's been he's having
Speaker 2: a heart attack. He's been on the ground for 6 minutes. They carried him. They've been doing CPR.
Speaker 3: I think that man probably died. I hope they save his life.
Speaker 0: Kevin Greeson leaves behind a wife and 5 children. Around 1:30 PM on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour. Just inside the Capitol, representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat from California, is responding to the challenge of the electoral count.
Speaker 8: The votes are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just going to make things worse.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna make it worse. It's not. Hold. Hold fire. Hold fire.
Hey. Hold fire. Hold fire. Hey. Hold fire.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd. A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 3: They come back with it? Can they throw fast? Okay.
Speaker 0: The smoke grenade is tossed back behind the police line by someone in the crowd.
Speaker 3: Eric, what's going on? Eric, do you have any scout rounds?
Speaker 0: Officer Thao goes back for more rounds. This time, it's a CS gas canister.
Speaker 3: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: A triple chaser consists of 3 separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart, allowing increased area coverage. After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thau appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier.
Speaker 3: I got a tripletaser on hold. Yeah. Be right back. I know. But this is tripletaser.
I know. But just splint it. I mean, I got this.
Speaker 0: Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd. At around this same time, Ray Epps is once again caught from multiple cameras being at the front line of the demonstrators He walks freely up and down the police barricades multiple times, communicating with other demonstrators in a similar fashion to when we saw him whisper in Ryan Samsel's ear earlier before the first breach. At 1:38 PM, Donald Trump sends his first tweet after walking off the stage 24 earlier. It reads, please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country.
Stay peaceful. Around 1:40 PM, Ray Epps is one of the members of the crowd who helps lift up a large Trump sign and push it into the line of police officers on the west plaza of the capitol. At 1:41 PM, body cam footage from officer Anthony Alioto records a discussion about the dangers of using CS gas in their situation. The The officer petitions not to have Robert Glover, the on scene commander, authorize use of CS gas in the area.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is
Speaker 2: do not blubber unauthorized
Speaker 3: gas. I know just that. Have the blubber.
Speaker 0: 8 minutes later, at 1:49 PM, a riot is officially declared at the US Capitol.
Speaker 3: We're gonna charge your compliance, but this is now, essentially, a riot. 49
Speaker 1: hours declaring it a riot.
Speaker 0: The fears of officer Alioto are soon realized when at 1:50 PM, officers use CS gas on the northwest side of the plaza, and effectively gas themselves with aid from the wind. You can see multiple officers struggling from the effects of the CS gas.
Speaker 2: Tina, be careful. It's blowing right back.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Okay. So It's in
Speaker 1: my eye.
Speaker 3: You want it? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't rub it.
Speaker 0: Over on the east side of the Capitol, the gates have successfully held the crowd back for over an hour from when the west side was first breached. At 1:59 PM, that all changes. The demonstrators overpower the police and begin to make their way toward the East Steps.
Speaker 9: Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And they just reached the capital again.
Speaker 0: Back on the northwest side of the capital, a man named Derek Vargo is ascending to the west terrace on the outside railing of the stairway. He is sprayed in the eyes with an inflammatory agent. Vargo reacts by heading back down the way he came when he is shoved off the wall by officer Bryant Williams, leading to a 25 foot drop. Some will call this an attempted murder. Vargo is carried away on a makeshift stretcher by officers and bystanders.
Fargo suffered a fractured ankle and extensive midfoot injuries that would require surgeries to repair. He lives with constant foot pain, pain in the middle of his spine, and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder that causes him flashbacks and nightmares of being pushed off the railing. At 2 03 PM, the first dispersal order is heard coming from a mobile LRAD or long range acoustic device. DC law requires police to give 3 separate warning with the LRAD system and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or conditions to clear a protest crowd. At 2:0:6 PM, police retreat up the east steps of the capitol.
Demonstrators soon follow and ascend the steps. We hear the LRAD again at 2:0:7 PM. Dare to comply with this order, may subject you to arrest. It's unlikely that demonstrators heard either of these warnings given the situation on the plaza, which calls into question the earlier stated DC law that requires these announcements to be clearly audible and to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse. Back on the east side of the capitol at 2:0:9 PM, Hunter Emke is seen kicking in and punching multiple windows.
He is quickly tackled and detained by police. At 2:10 PM, demonstrators reached the west terrace and pushed through police barricades. They will quickly move to what will become the first points of entry to the interior of the capital. A man throws a 2 by 4 through a glass pane. The first such window on the west side of the Capitol.
Shortly thereafter, Dominic Pizola pushes the window in using a police riot shield. Protesters will soon enter the building through these breach points. At 2:12, Ray Epps sends a text message to his nephew telling him that he orchestrated the protest at the capitol and that he helped get people there. The video evidence we have seen thus far would back up his claim. At 2:13 PM, president Trump tweets, I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful.
No violence. Remember, we are the party of law and order. Respect the law and our great men and women in blue. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd. This crowd management round contains approximately 18 rubber balls.
Speaker 6: Alright. I need a
Speaker 3: round. Good, CS.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round, a round that contains 3 40 millimeter rubber projectiles. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 10: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule 1.
Speaker 0: At 2:16 PM, the parliamentarian doors are open from the inside, providing another access point for demonstrators to enter the building. Down on the west plaza, officer Thao refers to police activity as quote, shooting zombies.
Speaker 3: Alright. We're completely Graham.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 10: Without objection,
Speaker 3: police body cam picks up a tense
Speaker 0: conversation among officers, where police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers, where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 3: And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting reindeer. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, John Earl Sullivan is recording as he is one of the first of the demonstrators to enter the Capitol rotunda.
Speaker 3: 2021, y'all. This is insanity. Holy what is this? What is life?
Speaker 0: At the same time, a few blocks away, MPD officers are discussing new plans to enter the capital to support US Capitol Police.
Speaker 3: They're gonna burn that building down. Down. That's fine. And we'll figure it out. Alright.
They better reach out to the military right now is what they better do. Get the national guards to get up
Speaker 0: down here.
Speaker 3: You know, we're, we're suiting up. We're going in. We are? Yes. Way.
Damn. Right now hear that?
Speaker 0: Still at 2:24 PM, Mike Pence has moved from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. The senate remains in session as senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell speaks on the floor. Also, at 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth. This would be a significant tweet to the January 6th committee, for they claimed that it was the motivation for a surge into the capital complex.
Speaker 11: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the Capitol and inside the capitol surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a
Speaker 3: surge. I ripped. Put it on the down.
Speaker 0: DC MPD officer Cowry, at the urging of officer Thau, misfires a CS gas canister that eventually forces police to fall back and lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses. Back on the east side at 2:24 PM, demonstrators are able to force open doors from the inside.
These are the Columbus doors, which lead a short way to the rotunda of the capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, an elderly woman is violently pushed by police down a set of concrete stairs three times, which incites the crowd around her.
Speaker 3: Did you hear that? Yeah. We're trying to make it to, to Hennepin Gardens. We're going in. Alright.
We
Speaker 1: Down in long guns? What do
Speaker 3: you mean? Yes. Straight up. Any any munitions you have, CDU.
Speaker 0: At 2:28 PM, in an interesting exchange, a press photographer on scene at the east entrance of the Capitol taps a demonstrator on his hip and shoulder to move him out of the way so he can presumably get a better shot of the action. Back out on the south side of the west plaza, a demonstrator is taken down by 6 police officers. He receives multiple punches while in a face down prone position. At 2:30 PM, a security camera at the crypt lobby shows demonstrators gaining access to the capital via overhead lift doors. At this same time, the house is called into final recess.
Speaker 10: Without objection, the house is gonna go back into recess.
Speaker 0: At 2:31 PM, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser orders a curfew from 6 PM that evening to 6 AM the following morning. At 2:33 PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, in his words, set up.
Speaker 10: They set up a up. That's what they did.
Speaker 3: They set up. They set up 64. Oh, absolutely. And then they asked you to come in 2 hours later. They set us up.
I'm a be as real as I it can be. We are going to get overrun on
Speaker 7: the steps of the capital right now.
Speaker 3: We're getting hammered. Okay? If you guys go down there, the paint compliance is working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1. You're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a mother.
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the Capitol while police officers watch them walk through the doors. Just feet away at 2:30 5 PM, minutes after losing the west plaza, officer Alioto throws a gas canister from the west terrace into the crowd that has a mast on the west plaza. This, along with other gas canisters sent into the crowds, gets thrown back at the officers. Most of these officers still do not have gas masks. At the same time on the west terrace, officers are repeating the same mistakes they made one level lower on the west plaza.
An errant CS gas round is again fired into their held position on the west terrace. The spreading gas will eventually effectuate a retreat back into the capital through a narrow tunnel. This mistake would prove to be incredibly significant for the events that are yet to come. The retreat into the capital through the West Terrace tunnel would create the conditions for the next standoff between demonstrators and police that would take place over the following hours. Instead of showing force outside of and retreating to a defensive posture.
At 2:39 PM, Metropolitan Police Department reinforcements arrive at the capitol, entering through the east carriage door. At the same time, police officers discussed being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 3: I didn't know we are coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all had our mask. I didn't realize how bad I they set us up to fail. They did. There was no way we were winning that.
And you've now you got at least 4 platoons that are just gassed out. Yeah. Literally. Because us, 54, doesn't have masks. Yeah.
Well, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for any more influencers to come. They didn't come. They didn't ask for him. Who cares about the street? Like, why orderize?
Get yes. Secure the capital.
Speaker 0: At 2:42 PM, journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an air force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby guarded by 3 police officers. MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the capitol building.
Speaker 3: You're alive. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber. It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the capitol that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day. Go.
Go to
Speaker 3: the gun. Go to the gun. Go to the gun. Hey. He's got a gun.
Hey. He's got a gun.
Speaker 0: The shot heard was a single round fired by lieutenant Michael Byrd. It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck, and she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
Speaker 3: They just killed the girl. They just They just He's gotta go right
Speaker 1: One shot in the capital. Report of a shooting in the capital. Trying to ascertain information now.
Speaker 0: At 2:46 PM, approximately the same time as Ashley Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police officer Byrd, a series of smoke and signal flares are activated at various locations around the Capitol.
Speaker 3: Flare. Some kind of a flare in the sky there.
Speaker 0: As the smoke clears, we again spot Ray Epps leaving the area and flanked by several individuals before leaving the capitol grounds for the day. Meanwhile, demonstrators continue to enter the capitol building. The first demonstrator enters the senate chamber.
Speaker 10: We're here.
Speaker 1: Senate 7, we got protesters that are outside of the, senate chamber.
Speaker 0: Over the course of the next 30 minutes, the senate chamber will become a significant location of the day along with the capitol rotunda, And the West Terrace Tunnel. Prior to this point in the day, many demonstrators were free to roam the hallways
Speaker 2: The police here are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our 1st amendment allowed. Gather for Americans under the condition that they will come and gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
Speaker 0: Capitol police officer Robichaux asks a small group of demonstrators to remain peaceful. Show us no attack, no assault, remain calm. We're not going to stop, and that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 3: This has to be peaceful. We have the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 0: Robichaud then proceeds to escort at least one demonstrator, Jacob Chanceley, throughout various locations in the capital. At 2:46 PM, additional demonstrators continue to enter the senate chamber. Security footage shows no Capitol Police presence in the senate chamber at this time. At this point in the day, many of the demonstrators on the outside have no idea the Capitol has even been breached. Let's go back to the multi view to see what's going on around the capitol grounds.
On the southeast side, a group of MPD officers arrived to assist capitol police with clearing out the inside of the capitol.
Speaker 1: 1.52 ground. We're sending NPD through the south door of the Capitol. There's about 25 units in hard gear.
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza, an enormous American flag has been draped over the scaffolding. On the east side of the capitol, demonstrators have overtaken the stairs and continue to gather on the lawn. Back in the rotunda at 2:48 PM, we see demonstrators peacefully roaming around and taking photographs. The only law enforcement officers visible are standing in the doorway. As demonstrators continue to roam the hallways, one officer has a concerning realization.
Back at the West Terrace tunnel, a demonstrator activates a fire extinguisher into the tunnel towards dozens of law enforcement officers.
Speaker 3: Security steps.
Speaker 4: Right now. No. No.
Speaker 3: Wait. Okay. Because we gotta get numbers. Yeah. I'm seeing stars right now.
Speaker 0: Inside the senate chamber, demonstrators are rummaging through desks looking for intel.
Speaker 1: Subjection to the Arizona's objection.
Speaker 3: He was gonna sell us out all the while. Really? Look. Objection to counter the electoral votes of the state of Arizona. Wait.
No. That's Oh, no. That's okay. Alright. Alright.
Look down. I'm Objection to counter the electoral votes of the state terrorism. Wait. No. That's Oh, no.
That's okay. Alright. Alright. We're trying to finish.
Speaker 0: Let's do this. Let's do this. The standoff back at the West Terrace tunnel continues with more
Speaker 3: Back up. Back up. Back up. Get the back of the Get it put it over there. We're gonna drop it this way, then you lock it in there.
We close this off. You will get your arms through these
Speaker 0: At 2:55 PM, law enforcement begins to move demonstrators out of the capitol from various locations.
Speaker 10: You need to give up communism is what you need
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 10: You need to give up communism to protect these
Speaker 3: people. You're
Speaker 8: patriots. Sir.
Speaker 3: This shit is so big.
Speaker 4: How much it cost for you to
Speaker 0: But they continue to struggle to control the rotunda and west plaza tunnel. Richard Barnett, the demonstrator who posed for this photo in house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, attempts to persuade an officer to let him back in to retrieve his flag.
Speaker 1: 4 18 Frank's are informational. I have a group of about 20 to 30 officers that are cordoned off on the south side of the front of stairs. We're just gonna hold the line over here so we get some kind of control on this crowd. There's no enforcement we can take at this time.
Speaker 3: Hey. Hey. Hey, man. Glad to see you guys.
Speaker 5: You guys are fucking patriots.
Speaker 3: Look at this guy. He's got heaven and blood.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 3: You good, sir? Do you need medical attention? I'm good. Thank you,
Speaker 0: Jacob Chansley takes a seat at the senate dais. He decides to leave a note for vice president Pence.
Speaker 3: Anything else? Now that you've done that, can I get you guys to walk out Thank you, heavenly father, for giving us this opportunity? Please help me. Thanks, sir. Happy father.
Amen. Sir, I have 70 5 people inside the senate chambers just for information. They are going through desks and on top of podium.
Speaker 0: Back at the rotunda,
Speaker 3: Alright. 4 zero one. Just deposit units outside the door. We've we've got c u one squad. Sending all these individuals out of the rotunda.
Okay. Come on. Get me. You got it? Stop it quick.
Let's go. Alright. One zero five. I'm currently at the main George's senate chamber. Thank you.
Thank you, officer. God bless you, Matthew. Thanks for your patience. We really appreciate it. That is glorious, you person.
Isn't it? Yeah. Freedom.
Speaker 0: Back at the scuffle at the West Terrace tunnel, the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Leading up to the tunnel are a series of steps that demonstrators are having trouble navigating. It is a very tense and dangerous situation in this area. For over an hour, the police have been inside the building, behind the inner doors, while demonstrators have occupied the tunnel.
Speaker 1: 405 John is advising they need additional acid pain.
Speaker 0: At 3:19 PM, the police successfully expel the demonstrators from the tunnel. During the skirmish, a US Capitol Police officer is dragged into the crowd of demonstrators. He is later returned to the police line and heads back to safety inside the tunnel. The demonstrators manage to hold their ground and begin to push the police back into the tunnel. This sets the stage for the final tragic conflict.
Demonstrators and police are engaged in physical altercations. Sprayed chemical agents are lingering in the narrow hallway.
Speaker 4: I know your pain. I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.
Speaker 0: At 4:17 PM, president Trump posts a 1 minute video to his Twitter account, urging demonstrators to stay peaceful and go home.
Speaker 4: We have to have peace. We have to have law and order
Speaker 0: Twitter quickly attached a warning label on the video which read, this claim of election fraud is disputed, and this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence. This limited the reach of the
Speaker 4: but go home and go home in peace.
Speaker 0: As the demonstrators are As the demonstrators are pushed back by police, they fall on top of each other. Some are pressed against the ground, unable to move. A woman named Roseanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, finds herself pinned under the deluge of bodies. The situation is critical.
Speaker 3: Need another chance
Speaker 1: to go all my time.
Speaker 5: Collapsed inside that that corridor from an asphyxiation. She couldn't breathe. Brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her. I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes and even I cut part of her jeans away so that I could try to fill her femoral pulse, and I couldn't feel a femoral force at all.
By the time that they decided to pick the person up and give them to the police officer, she had blue lips and blood was coming out of her nose.
Speaker 3: Man, where the DC fire needs to go for that CPR that's going on?
Speaker 5: Didn't seem hopeful at all. I don't I don't think that person will be revived.
Speaker 0: Officers transport Boylan inside the tunnel and begin CPR.
Speaker 1: Ambulance that is coming for the code down at Lower West Terrace to the house door for entry?
Speaker 3: Yeah. She got I think she got stuck under there. She fell down and That's rambled? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Boylan is transported inside for one last revival attempt.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: To destroying the media equipment over here at Senate AG.
Speaker 3: Got me. Should we find Protesters are
Speaker 0: At 5 PM, as the citywide 6 PM curfew looms, police are making progress securing the capitol, and a steady stream of demonstrators leave the capitol grounds. At 5:10 PM, police use tear gas to drive the remaining demonstrators from the capitol's upper levels. Over the PA system, an announcement is made that all individuals are required to leave Capitol Hill or be subject to arrest. At 5:40 PM, National Guard troops begin to arrive at the capitol to secure the premises. One minute after the curfew goes into effect, Donald Trump sends out a final message to his supporters that day.
At 8 PM, the capitol is declared secure.
Speaker 7: Today was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.
Speaker 0: Shortly after at 8:0:6 PM, the Senate resumes debate over the certification of Arizona's vote in the senate chamber. The house would reconvene about an hour later.
Speaker 1: Not. How are
Speaker 0: The election results will be certified. And 14 days later, Joe Biden will walk down the same tunnel and stairs where the police and demonstrators fought for hours and where Roseanne Boylan took her last breath to be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. January 6th 2021, a day of hope and patriotism that turned into a day of chaos and tragedy. For the past 3 years, the shadow of January 6th looms large in our politics, in our culture, and in our national conversation. Are we any closer to understanding the events of that day?
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The transcript presents a detailed narrative and timeline of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, emphasizing the sequence of events, key actors, and the evolving security dynamic as the day unfolded.
- Preceding the day, hundreds of peaceful rallies followed the November 2020 election. Polls showed concern about election irregularities in key states; none of these rallies were violent. On January 6, crowds gathered around multiple areas in Washington, DC, with the Ellipse hosting President Trump’s speech, and other groups assembling on the West and East sides of the Capitol and nearby locations. The mood of the crowd at morning events is described as joyful and hopeful, viewing it as the last chance to see the president’s national address.
- Around 11:41 AM, Ryan Samsell (spelled Samsal in some segments) crosses an intersection with officers; Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is seen crossing the same intersection and would later lead investigations of Samsel and others. Four minutes later, officers respond to a report of a gun and question a person with a knife; he is released after it is determined there is no firearm.
- Trump’s speech timeline: at about 15 minutes into his remarks, Trump mentions that after the speech they will walk to the Capitol. He says, “we’re gonna walk down to the capital,” and reiterates a call to count only lawfully slated electors. He suggests marching “peacefully and patriotically.” Fifteen minutes into his remarks, a group including Proud Boys is seen heading toward the Capitol, flanked by DC Metropolitan Police.
- The crowd moves: about 12:04 PM, demonstrators including Proud Boys walk west on Constitution Avenue toward 1st Street, flanked by police. A lunch stop occurs around 12:30 PM as the group, previously flanked, appears to pause near the Department of Labor.
- By 12:35-12:36 PM, Pence’s motorcade arrives at the Capitol, in advance of the 1 PM certification. A crowd already forms at barricades on the East Plaza as Pence arrives. Shortly after, Trump’s remarks are referenced in real time as the Ellipse speech concludes.
- The first major breach occurs as barricades are breached: Samsell (Samsel) is seen near a barricade; Ray Epps is observed directing demonstrators toward the Capitol. A barrier is pushed into the police line, knocking a police officer (Caroline Edwards) to the ground, initiating the first violent skirmish.
- By 12:58 PM, a West Lawn fence is down; five Capitol Police officers guard the area behind barricades, while a Black ski-masked individual removes a barrier and leads crowds toward the West Lawn. Samsell and Epps are repeatedly seen near barricades as the crowd pushes forward.
- A man named Benjamin Phillips collapses on the West Plaza around 12:59 PM; responders assist him, and he dies later that day. Inside the Capitol, Vice President Pence is in the House chamber for the electoral vote certification.
- The Capitol Police deploy less-lethal munitions beginning around 1:06 PM. At 1:12 PM, Trump finishes his Ellipse remarks; a split-screen real-time view shows concurrent events around the Capitol. At 1:13 PM, Officer Thao requests more munitions and later fires a Taser (ECD). The first use of a chemical agent is reported, and the crowd’s advance continues toward the interior.
- By 1:21 PM, the first explosive munition is discharged; rubber bullets, tear gas, and incendiaries hit the crowd in rapid succession for about an hour. At 1:28 PM, a man collapses; CPR is attempted. A person named Roseanne Boylan later dies from injuries sustained in the crush.
- The West Plaza portion of the Capitol sees a collapse of the police line; by 1:38–1:41 PM, Trump tweets urging peace; Ray Epps is frequently seen near the front lines as demonstrators enter the West Plaza area and push past police barriers.
- Around 1:50 PM, CS gas is deployed in the Northwest side, causing police to retreat; demonstrators advance toward the Capitol interior. A key development: the West Terrace tunnel becomes a focal point as police retreat behind double doors, shortening the line and creating a bottleneck for the crowd.
- By 2:16–2:18 PM, doors to the Capitol open from the inside, and MPD reinforcements begin to arrive. The Senate and House debate on the Arizona electoral objection continues as demonstrators move through the building, including into the Senate chamber where desks and the dais are examined.
- At 2:24 PM, Trump tweets that Pence lacked the courage to do what should have been done to protect the country, which later drew attention from investigators. A misfire of CS gas by a DC officer leads to a dispersal collapse of the West Plaza line, and the crowd surges into the Capitol interior.
- In the Capitol Rotunda and Senate chamber, demonstrators roam and occupy spaces; Jacob Chanceley is seen in the Senate chamber, and threats to security escalate as officers and demonstrators contend in multiple locations.
- At 3:19 PM, police expel demonstrators from the tunnel; a US Capitol Police officer is dragged into the crowd but returns to the line. By 4:17 PM, Trump posts a one-minute video urging peaceful departure; Twitter adds a warning label and later removes the video.
- At 5 PM, curfew is announced; tear gas is used to drive remaining demonstrators from upper levels; National Guard troops begin to arrive. At 8 PM, the Capitol is declared secure, and the session resumes later that night with the Arizona vote certification.
- The narration closes with a reflection on the day’s legacy, noting that fourteen days later, Joe Biden would be inaugurated, and asking whether the public’s understanding of January 6 has progressed toward a fuller timeline and context.
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Speaker 0: 01/06/2021. Washington DC. The US Capitol Building. An event that has been reported on more than any other in modern history. Despite excessive coverage, articles, books, documentaries, and congressional inquiries, Many details about the timeline of events that day remain unknown to the public.
Understanding what actually happened on January 6 without bias and with as much context as possible is extremely difficult. News organizations and mass media have controlled the story of that day. Big tech and social media companies have censored, shadow banned, and de platformed eyewitness accounts, which further skews and misrepresents the truth from that day. Many of us still do not know the names of those who were killed at the capital and the causes of their deaths. This video seeks to create a thorough and truthful timeline of the events of is the motivation for this timeline.
Prior to 01/06/2021, there had been a hundreds of peaceful rallies following the November twenty twenty election. Polls showed that many Americans were concerned with election irregularities in key states that ended up deciding the presidential election for Joe Biden. None of these rallies ever turned violent. The morning of January 6 started no different than any of those other rallies. American citizens showing up together to express their first amendment protected right to petition their government with a meaningful concern.
The mood of the crowd appeared to be joyful and hopeful. It would be the last chance to see the president give a large speech to the nation. To properly understand the events that would soon unfold, it's important to acknowledge that there were many areas of interest that day where crowds were congregating. Those attending president Trump's speech assembled at the Ellipse, a 52 acre park located directly south of the White House and approximately one mile from the capital. Space was limited there and the crowd was so big that a sea of people extended all the way to the Washington Monument.
Elsewhere in Washington DC, crowds would assemble in the morning at both the West and the East side of the capital. Still others would loiter in the vicinity to await the next event that would take place that day, of which there were multiple permit holders in the area. At 11:41AM, Ryan Samsall, a man who will later be pivotal in the first breach of the capital, crosses the street past multiple uniformed officers. Seconds later, the acting US attorney for the District Of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, wearing plain clothes, is seen crossing the same intersection. Sherwin would go on to lead the investigations of Samsel and hundreds of others.
Four minutes later, the same officer whose body cam recorded that interaction is moving through the crowd responding to a call of a person with a gun. The crowd is compliant as the officers move through the space. They reach their intended target, and after a few minutes of questioning, let the man go. He had no firearm and was only carrying a knife.
Speaker 1: Someone saw that handle and
Speaker 2: thought it was a handgun.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. This is my car. Okay? There's no way. Any questions or issues?
Speaker 3: Not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I when I turned on today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't wanna show that.
Speaker 0: The president gave a speech that morning that was very similar in tone and in style to the many campaign speeches and post election speeches he had given to audiences around the country.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the speech in my ear, thanks to Scott.
Speaker 0: At the exact time that Trump begins his speech, a livestreamer is at Peace Circle at the precise location that the first Capitol barricade breach will occur fifty three minutes later. You can see the metal bike rack fencing separating the street from the sidewalks in front of the Capitol Building. These area closed signs were posted in compliance with a restriction that went into effect 09/07/2020 due to the construction of the inauguration stage. At 12:04PM, a group of demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, are seen walking west on Constitution Avenue toward 1st Street while being flanked by police officers from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 4: And flanked by
Speaker 3: the DC pinot. 63,000,000.
Speaker 0: Fifteen minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the capital. For context, let's hear the president's full remarks during this portion of his speech.
Speaker 3: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down. We're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the capital. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we're probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: Six minutes following these remarks, the group of proud boys and demonstrators seen previously being flanked by the DCMPD have stopped for lunch at a row of food trucks in front of the US Department of Labor on Constitution Avenue. Eddie Bloch, seen here in a scooter, tells a live streamer the immediate plans of the group.
Speaker 4: Where where
Speaker 5: are we headed?
Speaker 6: Do we know? We're heading back to the route. Okay.
Speaker 1: Was there was there nothing going on at the capital?
Speaker 6: Not really. Not really. So We're just kinda marching around, letting people know we're here.
Speaker 1: Okay. Good time. Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 0: Six minutes after this interaction at 12:30PM, the US Capitol Police report a very large group heading to the Capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at approximately 7th Street.
Speaker 1: Cruiser 50, it does look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: At the same time, police body cam records police intervening between Trump supporters and a counter protester. The police encourage the crowd to keep marching toward the capital.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys. Let's keep the march going. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going. President
Speaker 0: Trump won't be finished speaking at the ellipse for another forty minutes. During this time, a man named Ray Epps was filmed on the streets directing the crowd to the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1: As soon as president Trump is finished speaking, we are going to the Capitol in that direction. That's where our true problems lie. President Trump is done speaking. We are going to the capital. That's where our problem we are going to the capital where our problems are.
It's that direction.
Speaker 0: He was filmed the night prior, urging the crowd to go inside the capital.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna put it out
Speaker 1: that I'm probably gonna go to jail for it. Okay? Tomorrow, we need to go into the capital. Into the capital. Peacefully.
The
Speaker 0: crowd surrounding him instantly calls him out as a fed. At 12:35PM, Mike Pence's motorcade is seen heading to the capital, turning left on Constitution Avenue from Louisiana Avenue.
Speaker 1: Arms don't stop. Anybody stay back. Stay back, please. Arms, let's go. Stay back.
Speaker 0: A minute later, at 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at The US capital. The vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the capital in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in twenty four minutes at 1PM eastern. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the East Plaza of the capital. Mike Mike Pence.
At this exact moment, president Trump is mentioning Mike Pence's upcoming certification at his speech on the Ellipse over a mile away.
Speaker 3: But now they see all this stuff. It's all come to light. It doesn't happen that fast. And they wanna recertify their votes. They wanna recertify.
But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: A minute later at 12:45PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the capital. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle, where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the West side of the capital. There are two sets of metal barricades here, behind which only five Capitol Police officers can be seen guarding this entrance, while every member of Congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the West Lawn of the capital, while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates.
Ryan Samsel, who we saw earlier in a white hoodie and red baseball cap, approaches the police line. This would become the first major breach of the Capitol Grounds and skirmish with Capitol Police. We will show this crucial interaction in its entirety and use multiple angles to see what happens at this all important flash point. Ray Epps, who we just saw calling for demonstrators to enter the capital, can be seen approaching the front of the barricades and speaking to Ryan Samsel. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line.
After the gate is forcefully pushed forward, US Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards is knocked to the ground. Ryan Sampson immediately runs to her aid to help her get back on her feet. The first violent skirmish of the day between demonstrators and police had begun. President Trump remains speaking on the ellipse.
Speaker 3: In Clark County, Nevada, the accuracy settings on signature verification regimes were purposely lowered before they were used to count over 130,000 ballots. If you signed your name as Santa Claus, it would go through.
Speaker 0: Just to the south at the 1st Street Southwest in the Maryland Avenue Circle, demonstrators knocked down a second gate. Crowds are now advancing on the West Front of the capital from two locations. With multiple lightly manned police barricades down, the enlivened crowd makes their way quickly to the next barrier, the metal gates in front of the West Plaza of the capital. Samsall can be seen tapping the shoulder of officer Edwards and saying something to her. Looking over the West Side of the capital from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the West Plaza.
From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol Grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. At 12:58PM, the lightweight fencing on the West Lawn is pulled down completely by a single person. It is on this fence that signs with the words area closed are affixed. Thousands of people who will walk up to the capital after 1PM will never see these signs. Zooming in closer to the northwest corner of the plaza, we once again see Ray Epps at the head of the crowd in front of the next set of police barricades.
So far, we've seen him the previous day calling for the crowd to enter the capital. We saw him that morning directing people to the capital. We saw him at the first gate reach, and now here he is at the second major gate reach, and it won't be the last we see of him. Directly in front of him is where the crowd reaches the metal gates and enters onto the West Plaza of the capital. At 12:59PM, a man on the Northwest sidewalk collapses.
Speaker 6: Can you please have someone respond to my location? AT and The bottom of the west front was an individual that's down here unconscious and not brief.
Speaker 0: The man's name is Benjamin Phillips. He is a computer programmer from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who traveled to DC to support president Trump. A crowd of people, including police officers, form around him to assist with life saving measures. While Benjamin Phillips fights for his life outside, inside the capital, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes. President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the capital.
Speaker 3: Clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from president Trump to former vice president Biden.
Speaker 5: Madam speaker, members of congress, pursuant to the constitution and the laws of The United States, the senate and house of representatives meeting in joint session to verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors of the several states for president and vice president of The United States.
Speaker 0: Back outside on the West Plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Wal do orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 1: Unit six, I need less lethal teams. They could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing the staff lane. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: One minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 01:06PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 1: Unit six, I got a crowd fighting with officer, pushing, throwing projectiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less than lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch. Launch.
Launch.
Speaker 0: Launch. US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek. Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level.
Speaker 1: I was at the front line trying to keep the peace between the patriots and the people that were hired by the government. And I I caught a shot in the face, and then that's about it.
Speaker 0: Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 1: Six high copy. I need more lead less than lethal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still non compliant. We've continued to give I've continued to give multiple warnings about chemical munitions being released.
They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least three clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system, as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse, and a clear safe route for dispersal. Just feet away, Benjamin Phillips fights for his life. He has been down on the ground and not breathing for thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: 01:30. Where's the ambulance for this guy on the Lower West?
Speaker 0: President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 01:12PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the capital in real time.
Speaker 3: So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible.
Speaker 1: Thank you very
Speaker 8: ballot from Arizona.
Speaker 5: Is the and signed by a
Speaker 1: senator? Yes, it is.
Speaker 0: As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thou arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back in the real time multi view, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his one hour and eleven minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of The United States. Gosar and Cruz are having their objections to the electoral vote of Arizona read on the house floor.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. At
Speaker 0: 01:13PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 1: Capital. Hey. We need blast positions. What do we got? I'm panicking.
We gotta get something, man. Come on. We gotta go. At
Speaker 0: 01:15PM, officer Thao crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges two rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD.
Speaker 1: True ECD to blunt. True
Speaker 0: He then witnesses what he calls an APO or an assault on a police officer.
Speaker 1: APO, felony. With
Speaker 0: 30 officers between him and the crowd, it's unclear what assault he thought he saw in that moment. A few 100 feet away, back on the northwest sidewalk, Benjamin Phillips has been loaded onto a makeshift stretcher and is being carried north to a waiting ambulance.
Speaker 1: Hello, sir. They are bringing the patient up to the ambulance right now. They are refusing to come down.
Speaker 0: Tragically, Phillips would be pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Benjamin Phillips leaves behind two teenage children. Back inside the Capitol Building at 01:17PM, vice president Mike Pence and senators return to the senate chamber to debate the electoral vote challenge put forth by representative Paul Gosar. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the West Terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Damn it. We need that. Let's go. Just shoot it. Go.
Shoot. Shoot the.
Speaker 0: The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time. Three minutes later, at 01:21PM, the first explosive munition of the day is discharged. The demonstrators at the West Plaza of the capital will be hit by an unrelenting barrage of grenades, incendiaries, rubber bullets, and gas for the next hour. At 01:28PM, a man has collapsed on the West Plaza and is attended to by people in the crowd.
Speaker 1: They can't get anybody in here
Speaker 7: and the cops are throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
Speaker 0: He is unresponsive for several minutes. Fearing the risk of trampling, they carry him to a different location, where they continue to try to resuscitate him.
Speaker 1: He's been He's having
Speaker 7: a heart attack. He's been on the for six minutes. They carried him. They've been doing CPR. I think that man probably died.
Speaker 4: I hope they saved his life.
Speaker 0: Kevin Greeson leaves behind a wife and five children. Around 01:30PM, on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour. Just inside the capital, representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat from California, is responding to the challenge of the electoral count.
Speaker 9: The votes are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states.
Speaker 0: At 01:32PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just going to make things worse.
Speaker 6: We're just gonna make it worse. Worse.
Speaker 1: Hey. Stop. Hold. Hold fire. Hold fire.
Give me hold. Hold. Hold fire.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out with smoke. That's a burner, by the way. A
Speaker 0: burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 1: They come back with it? Hey. Do they throw it faster? I'm guessing.
Speaker 0: The smoke grenade is tossed back behind the police line by someone in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Eric. Eric,
Speaker 6: do we have any scout rounds?
Speaker 0: Officer Thao goes back for more rounds. This time, it's a CS gas canister.
Speaker 3: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: A triple chaser consists of three separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart, allowing increased area coverage. After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier.
Speaker 1: I got a triple chaser on hold. Yeah. Put it right back. I know. But this is triple chaser.
You're just a real smoker. I know. But this is splitting. I mean, got that. I know.
But
Speaker 0: captain tells officer Thou to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Take your step back. Take your step back.
Speaker 0: At around this same time, Ray Epps is once again caught from multiple cameras being at the front line of the demonstrators near police barricades. No other person has been seen at this many flashpoints this many times. He walks freely up and down the police barricades multiple times, communicating with other demonstrators in a similar fashion to when we saw him whisper in Ryan Samsall's ear earlier before the first breach. At 01:38PM, Donald Trump sends his first tweet after walking off the stage twenty four minutes earlier. It reads, please support our capital police and law enforcement.
They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. Around 01:40PM, Ray Epps is one of the members of the crowd who helps lift up a large Trump sign and push it into the line of police officers on the West Plaza of the capital. At 01:41PM, body cam footage from officer Anthony Aliotto records a discussion about Eight minutes later, at 01:49PM, a riot is officially declared at the US capital.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and get compliant, but this is now effectively a riot.
Speaker 6: Forty nine hours declaring it a riot.
Speaker 0: The fears of officer Aliyoto are soon realized when at 01:50PM, officers use CS gas on the Northwest side of the plaza and effectively gas themselves with aid from the wind. You can see multiple officers struggling from the effects of the CS gas.
Speaker 1: Tina, be careful. It's blowing right back. I know. It's in my eye. You alright?
Yeah.
Speaker 6: Don't rub it. You know that. You're gonna suck. Keep blinking.
Speaker 0: Over on the East side of the capital, the gates have successfully held the crowd back for over an hour from when the West side was first breached. At 01:59PM, that all changes. The demonstrators overpower the police and begin to make their way toward the east steps.
Speaker 10: Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And they just reached the capital again.
Speaker 0: Back on the Northwest side of the capital, a man named Derek Vargo is ascending to the West terrace on the outside railing of the stairway. He is sprayed in the eyes with an inflammatory agent. Vargo reacts by heading back down the way he came when he is shoved off the wall by officer Bryant Williams, leading to a 25 foot drop. Some call this an attempted murder. Vargo is carried away on a makeshift stretcher by officers and bystanders.
Vargo suffered a fractured ankle and extensive midfoot injuries that would require surgeries to repair. He lives with constant foot pain, pain in the middle of his spine, and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder that causes him flashbacks and nightmares of being pushed off the railing. At 02:03PM, the first dispersal order is heard coming from a mobile LRAD, or long range acoustic device.
Speaker 1: 221307. You are scammed? All people must be.
Speaker 0: DC law requires police to give three separate warning with the LRAD system and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or munitions to clear a protest crowd. At 02:06PM, police retreat up the east steps of the capital. Demonstrators soon follow and ascend the steps. We hear the LRAD again at 02:07PM.
Speaker 1: They are to comply
Speaker 0: with this order. They subject you to arrest. It's unlikely that demonstrators heard either of these warnings given the situation on the plaza, which calls into question the earlier stated DC law that requires these announcements to be clearly audible and to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse. Back on the East Side of the capital at 02:09PM, Hunter Emke is seen kicking in and punching multiple windows. He is quickly tackled and detained by police.
At 02:10PM, demonstrators reach the West Terrace and push through police barricades. They will quickly move to what will become the first points of entry to the interior of the capital. A man throws a two by four through a glass pane, the first such broken window on the West Side of the capital. Shortly thereafter, Dominic Pizzola pushes the window in using a police riot shield. Protesters will soon enter the building through these breach points.
At 02:12, Ray Epps sends a text message to his nephew, telling him that he orchestrated the protest at the capital and that he helped get people there. The video evidence we have seen thus far would back up his claim. At 02:13PM, president Trump tweets, I am asking for everyone at The US Capital to remain peaceful. No violence. Remember, we are the party of law and order.
Respect the law and our great men and women in blue. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the West Plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd. This crowd management round contains approximately 18 rubber balls.
Speaker 1: Hey, I need a round. You have CS?
Speaker 0: Thirty seconds later, he's given a baton round, a round that contains three forty millimeter rubber projectiles. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 02:18PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 2: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule one.
Speaker 0: At 02:16PM, the parliamentarian doors are opened from the inside, providing another access point for demonstrators to enter the building. Down on the West Plaza, officer Thou refers to police activity as quote, shooting zombies.
Speaker 1: Alright. We're completely around. At
Speaker 0: 02:18PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 2: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule one.
Speaker 0: At 02:18PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 1: And not only that, we're taking out one and ten of them are getting way easier. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 02:24PM, John Earl Sullivan is recording as he is one of the first of the demonstrators to enter the Capital Rotunda.
Speaker 1: 2021 y'all. This is insanity. Holy What is this? What is life?
Speaker 0: At the same time, a few blocks away, MPD officers are discussing new plans to enter the capital to support US Capitol Police.
Speaker 1: They're gonna burn that building down.
Speaker 8: That's fine. And we'll figure it out. Alright.
Speaker 1: They better reach out to the military right now is what they better do. Get the National Guard suit up, get them down here.
Speaker 8: Do you know where we're suiting up, we're going in? We are? Yes. When? Damn.
Did you hear that?
Speaker 0: Still at 02:24PM, Mike Pence is moved from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. The senate remains in session as senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell speaks on the floor. Also, at 02:24PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth. This would be a significant tweet to the January 6 committee, for they claimed that it was the motivation for a surge into the capital complex.
Speaker 11: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 02:24PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6 committee failed to mention was that it officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rich. Yeah. Put it on the scaffolding. DC
Speaker 0: MPD officer Cowrie, at the urging of officer Thou, misfires a CS gas canister that eventually forces police to fall back and lose their position. As officers on the West Plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the West Plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within three minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the West Plaza entirely collapses. Back on the East Side at 02:24PM, demonstrators are able to force open doors from the inside.
These are the Columbus doors, which lead a short way to the rotunda of the capital. Back outside on the West Plaza, an elderly woman is violently pushed by police down a set of concrete stairs three times, which incites the crowd around her.
Speaker 8: Hey. Did you hear that? We're trying to make it to the Hanover Gardens. We're going
Speaker 1: in. Alright. So we down in long guns? What do we Yes.
Speaker 8: Straight up. Any any munitions you have, CDU.
Speaker 0: At 02:28PM, in an interesting exchange, a press photographer on scene at the East entrance of the capital taps a demonstrator on his hip and shoulder to move him out of the way so he can presumably get a better shot of the action. Back out on the south side of the West Plaza, a demonstrator is taken down by six police officers. He receives multiple punches while in a face down prone position. At 02:30PM, a security camera at the crypt lobby shows demonstrators gaining access to the capital via overhead lift doors. At this same time, the house is called into final recess.
Speaker 2: Without objection, the house is gonna go back into recess.
Speaker 0: At 02:31PM, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser orders a curfew from 6PM that evening to 6AM the following morning. At 02:33PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, in his words, set up.
Speaker 1: They set up the fuck up. That's what they did. They set up for They set up 64. Yeah. Absolutely.
And then they asked y'all to come in two hours later. They set us up. I'm gonna be as real as I can be. We are going to get overrun on the steps of the capital right now. We're getting fucking hammers.
Okay? If you guys go down there, the bank appliance is working very minimally. There's 10,000 to one. We're gonna lose the fucking steps, and we're getting people hurt like a mother.
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the West Side of the capital, while police officers watch them walk through the doors. Just feet away at 02:35PM, minutes after losing the West Plaza, officer Aliotto throws a gas canister from the West Terrace into the crowd that has amassed on the West Plaza. This, along with other gas canisters sent into the crowds, gets thrown back at the officers. Most of these officers still do not have gas masks. At the same time on the West Terrace, officers are repeating the same mistakes they made one level lower on the West Plaza.
An errant CS gas round is again fired into their held position on the West Terrace. The spreading gas will eventually effectuate a retreat back into the capital through a narrow tunnel. This mistake would prove to be incredibly significant for the events that are yet to come. The retreat into the capital through the West Terrace Tunnel would create the conditions for the next standoff between demonstrators and police that would take place over the following hours. Instead of showing force outside of the tunnel, the police make the questionable decision of barricading themselves behind locked double doors, giving up the tactical position, and retreating to a defensive posture.
At 02:39PM, Metropolitan Police Department reinforcements arrive at the capital, entering through the east carriage door. At the same time, police officers discussed being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we were coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all had our mask.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize how bad I
Speaker 1: they set us up to fail. They did. There was no way we were winning that. And you've now you got at least four platoons that are just gassed out. Yeah.
Literally. Because us, 54 doesn't have masks. Yeah. Oh, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for the hard platitudes to come. They didn't come.
They didn't ask for them. This is bullshit. Who cares about the street? Like, prioritize. Get yes.
Secure the capital. At
Speaker 0: 02:42PM, journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an air force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby, guarded by three police officers. MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1: You're live. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber. It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the capital that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that
Speaker 1: day. There's a gun. There's a gun. There's a gun. There's gun.
He's got a gun. He's got a
Speaker 0: The shot heard was a single round fired by lieutenant Michael Bird. It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck. And she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
Speaker 1: She's done. She's dead. She's dead. She's dead. I caught her.
She's dead, you piece of shit. One shot in the capital. Report of a shooting in the capital. Trying to ascertain information now.
Speaker 0: At 02:46PM, approximately the same time as Ashley Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police officer Byrd, a series of smoke and signal flares are activated at various locations around the Capitol. Flare. There's some kind of a flare in the sky there. As the smoke clears, we again spot Ray Epps leaving the area and flanked by several individuals before leaving the Capitol Grounds for the day. Meanwhile, demonstrators continue to enter the Capitol Building.
The first demonstrator enters the Senate Chamber.
Speaker 6: Unit 7,
Speaker 1: we got protesters that are outside of the Senate chamber.
Speaker 0: Over the course of the next thirty minutes, the Senate Chamber will become a significant location of the day. Along with the Capital Rotunda, the Capital Corridors, and the West Terrace Tunnel. Prior to this point in the day, many demonstrators were free to roam the hallways and chambers of the building, meeting little resistance from Capitol Police.
Speaker 7: The police here are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our First Amendment allows. Gather more Americans under the condition that they will come and gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
Speaker 0: Capital police officer Robichaud asks a small group of demonstrators to remain peaceful.
Speaker 7: Show us no attack, no assault, remain calm. We're not doing this all. We're We're going to be heard. I will Everybody, this must
Speaker 1: be peaceful. This has to be peaceful. Times, we have the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 0: Robichaud then proceeds to escort at least one demonstrator, Jacob Chanceley, throughout various locations in the capital. At 02:46PM, additional demonstrators continue to enter the senate Chamber. Security footage shows no capital police presence in the senate Chamber at this time. At this point in the day, many of the demonstrators on the outside have no idea that Capitol has even been breached. Let's go back to the multi view to see what's going on around the Capitol Grounds.
On the Southeast Side, a group of MPD officers arrived to assist Capitol Police with clearing out the inside of the Capitol.
Speaker 1: One twenty two ground. We're sending MPD through the South door of the Capitol. There's about 25 units in hard gear.
Speaker 0: Back on the West Plaza, an enormous American flag has been draped over the scaffolding. On the East Side of the capital, demonstrators have overtaken the stairs and continue to gather on the lawn. Back in the rotunda at 02:48PM, we see demonstrators peacefully roaming around and taking photographs. The only law enforcement officers visible are standing in the doorway. As demonstrators continue to roam the hallways, one officer has a concerning realization.
Speaker 1: They make it up here. They can go right to the 2nd Floor. They just don't realize it.
Speaker 0: Back at the West Terrace Tunnel, a demonstrator activates a fire extinguisher into the tunnel towards dozens of law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1: Motor 13, we need munitions and 50 officers on the rotunda steps, at top the of the step. We need munitions to clear these steps.
Speaker 4: You wanna push forward?
Speaker 1: Push them back? No. Right now. No. Wait.
Okay. Because we gotta get numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm seeing stars right now.
Speaker 0: Inside the senate chamber, demonstrators are rummaging through desks looking for intel.
Speaker 1: Objection to the Arizona.
Speaker 0: More demonstrators arriving on the outside and more officers arriving on the inside.
Speaker 1: Hold it. Hold it, baby. Stop. Stop. It's the only way we're gonna hold this door.
Speaker 0: At 02:55PM, law enforcement begins to move demonstrators out of the capital from various locations.
Speaker 1: We are American. I pray for everyone of you, for your safety. You need to give communism what you need to do. You need to give communism to protect these people. We're patriots.
Sir. How much it cost for you to betray your duty and your people?
Speaker 0: But they continue to struggle to control the Rotunda and West Plaza Tunnel. Richard Barnett, the demonstrator who posed for this photo in house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, attempts to persuade an officer to let him back in to retrieve his flag.
Speaker 6: Four eighteen Franks are informational. I have a group of about 20 to 30 officers that are cordoned off on the south side of the reconnaissance stairs. We're just gonna hold the line over here, so we get some kind of control on this crowd. There's no enforcement we can take at this time.
Speaker 8: Hey, man. Glad to see you guys. You guys are patriots.
Speaker 1: Look at
Speaker 8: this guy. He's got covered in blood. God bless you.
Speaker 4: You good, sir?
Speaker 1: Do you need medical attention?
Speaker 3: I'm good. Thank you. Alright.
Speaker 0: Jacob Chanceley takes a seat at the senate dais. He decides to leave a note for vice president Pence.
Speaker 6: Now that you've done that,
Speaker 4: can I get you guys to walk out of
Speaker 8: this room, please? Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: There's 4,000,000 people coming in.
Speaker 4: So it's a of control.
Speaker 7: We love you guys. We love the cops. It's only
Speaker 8: a matter of time.
Speaker 1: Opportunity. Thank you, heavenly father. Amen. Sir, I have 75 people inside the Senate Chambers just for information. They are going through desks and on top of podium.
Speaker 0: Back at the rotunda, dozens of MPD officers prepare to clear out all of the demonstrators.
Speaker 1: One zero five, I'm currently at the main door to the Senate Chamber.
Speaker 0: Back at the scuffle at the West Terrace Tunnel, the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Leading up to the tunnel are a series of steps the demonstrators are having trouble navigating. It is a very tense and dangerous situation in this area. For over an hour, the police have been inside the building behind the inner doors while demonstrators have occupied the tunnel.
Speaker 6: 405 John is advising they need additional acid.
Speaker 0: At 03:19PM, the police successfully expel the demonstrators from the
Speaker 1: tunnel. I'm trying. Get
Speaker 0: down. During the skirmish, a US Capitol police officer is dragged into the crowd of demonstrators. He is later returned to the police line and heads back to safety inside the tunnel. The demonstrators manage to hold their ground and begin to push the police back into the tunnel. This sets the stage for the final tragic conflict.
Demonstrators and police are engaged in physical altercations. Sprayed chemical agents are lingering in the narrow hallway.
Speaker 3: I know your pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.
Speaker 0: At 04:17PM, president Trump posts a one minute video to his Twitter account, urging demonstrators to stay peaceful and go home.
Speaker 3: We have to have peace. We have to have law and order
Speaker 0: Twitter quickly attached a warning label on the video which read, this claim of election fraud is disputed, and this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence. This limited the reach of the message. Minutes later, Twitter would remove the entire video message from its platform.
Speaker 3: I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
Speaker 0: As the demonstrators are pushed back by police, they fall on top of each other. Some are pressed against the ground, unable to move. A woman named Roseanne Boylan, a Trump supporter from Georgia, finds her herself pinned under the deluge of bodies. The Trump situation is critical.
Speaker 1: Collapsed
Speaker 4: inside that that corridor from an asphyxiation. She couldn't breathe. Brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her. I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes and even I cut part of her jeans away so that I could try to feel her femoral pulse and I couldn't feel a femoral pulse at all.
By the time that they decided to pick the person up and give them to the police officer, she had blue lips and blood was coming out of her nose.
Speaker 1: Man, where the DC fire needs to go for that CPR that's going on.
Speaker 4: Didn't seem hopeful at all. I don't I don't think that person will be revived.
Speaker 0: Officers transport Boylan inside the tunnel and begin CPR.
Speaker 6: Could you please send the ambulance that is coming for the code down at Lower West Terrace to the house door for entry?
Speaker 1: Protestant? Yeah. She got I mean, she got stuck under there. She fell down and That trampled? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Boylan is transported inside for one last revival attempt.
Speaker 6: CDU 70 to destroying the media equipment over here at the egg. Copy. Roadcasters are destroying media equipment at the Senate AG. At
Speaker 0: 5PM, as the citywide 6PM curfew looms, police are making progress securing the capital and a steady stream of demonstrators leave the capital grounds. At 05:10PM, police use tear gas to drive the remaining demonstrators from the Capitol's upper levels. Over the PA system, an announcement is made that all individuals are required to leave Capitol Hill or be subject to arrest. At 05:40PM, National Guard troops begin to arrive at the Capitol to secure the premises. One minute after the curfew goes into effect, Donald Trump sends out a final message to his supporters that day.
At 8PM, the Capitol is declared secure.
Speaker 5: Today was a dark day in the history of The United States Capitol.
Speaker 0: Shortly after at 08:06PM, the senate resumes debate over the certification of Arizona's vote in the senate chamber. The house would reconvene about an hour later. The election results will be certified. And fourteen days later, Joe Biden will walk down the same tunnel and stairs where the police and demonstrators fought for hours and where Roseanne Boylan took her last breath to be inaugurated as the forty sixth president of The United States. 01/06/2021.
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On January 6, 2021, a chaotic and tragic day unfolded at the US Capitol. Demonstrators gathered to protest the election results, leading to clashes with law enforcement. The timeline of events is complex and includes breaches of barricades, confrontations between police and protesters, and the tragic death of Ashley Babbitt. The situation escalated throughout the day, with demonstrators entering the Capitol building and causing widespread damage. Police used various tactics to regain control, including the use of tear gas. The day ended with the certification of the election results and the arrival of the National Guard. The events of January 6th continue to have a significant impact on American politics and society.
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Speaker 0: January 6, 2021. Washington DC, the US Capitol Building, an event that has been reported on more than any other in modern history. Dree. Despite excessive coverage, articles, books, documentaries, and congressional inquiries, Many details about the timeline of events that day remain unknown to the public. Understanding what actually happened on January 6th without bias and with as much context as possible is extremely difficult.
News organizations and mass media have controlled the story of that day. Big tech and social media companies have censored, shadow banned, And deplatformed eyewitness accounts, which further skews and misrepresents the truth from that day. Many of us still do not know the names of those who were killed the capital, and the causes of their deaths. This video seeks to create a thorough and truthful timeline of the events of January 6th while shedding light on unheard stories, unseen footage, and new details. When facts are cherry picked for the sake of political narratives, We The People suffer.
Truth, not agenda, is the motivation for this timeline. Prior to January 6, 2021, there had been a hundreds of Peaceful rallies following the November 2020 election. Polls showed that many Americans were concerned with election irregularities in key states that ended up deciding the presidential election for Joe Biden. None of these rallies ever turned violent. The morning of January 6th started no different than any of those other rallies.
American citizens showing up together to express their first amendment protected right to petition their government with a meaningful concern. The mood of the crowd appeared to be joyful and hopeful. It would be the last chance to see the president give a large speech to the nation. To properly understand the events that would soon unfold, It's important to acknowledge that there were many areas of interest that day where crowds were congregating. Those attending president Trump's speech assembled at the Ellipse, A 52 acre park located directly south of the White House and approximately 1 mile from the Capitol.
Space was limited there, and the crowd was so big that a sea of people extended all the way to the Washington Monument. Elsewhere in Washington DC, crowds would Assemble in the morning at both the west and the east side of the capital. Still others would loiter in the vicinity to await the next event that would take place that day of which there were multiple permit holders in the area. At 11:41 AM, Ryan Sampson, a man who will later be pivotal in the 1st breach of the capital, crosses the street past multiple uniformed officers. Seconds later, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin wearing plain clothes is seen crossing the same intersection.
Sherwin would go on to lead the investigations of Samsel and hundreds of others. 4 minutes later, the same officer whose body cam recorded that Interaction is moving through the crowd responding to a call of a person with a gun. There you go. The crowd is compliant as the officers move through the space. They reached their intended target, and after a few minutes of questioning, let the man go.
He had no firearm and was only carrying a knife.
Speaker 1: I think you saw that Halo and thought it was a handguard. Oh, yeah. This is
Speaker 2: my car.
Speaker 1: Okay? There's no way. Questions or issues. Alright. Alright.
Be safe. Be safe. Thank you. You too. You guys be safe.
Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.
Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.
Speaker 0: President Trump took the microphone at 12:0:1 PM.
Speaker 3: Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I when I turned on Today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't wanna show that.
Speaker 0: The president gave a speech that morning that was very similar in tone and in style to the many campaign speeches Just in post election speeches he had given to audiences around the country.
Speaker 4: I'm listening to the speech in my ear. Thanks to
Speaker 0: At the exact time that Trump begins his speech, a live streamer is at Peace that the 1st capitol barricade breach will occur 53 minutes later. You can see the metal bike rack fencing separating the street from the sidewalks in front of the capitol building. These area closed signs were posted in compliance with a restriction that went into effect September 7th 2020, due to the construction of the inauguration stage. At 12:04 PM, a group of demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, are seen walking west on Constitution Avenue toward First Street while being flanked by police DC Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 1: Well, if we're gonna win Flanked by the TCP District. 63,000,000.
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the capital. For context, let's hear the president's full remarks during this portion of his speech.
Speaker 3: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk We're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the capitol, And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, And we're probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back Our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that congress Do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes following these remarks, the group of Proud Boys and demonstrators seen previously being flanked by the DCMPD have stopped for lunch at a row of food trucks in front of the US Department of Labor on Constitution Avenue. Eddie Block, seen here in a scooter, tells a live Streamer the immediate plans of the group.
Speaker 4: Where, where are we headed?
Speaker 1: We're heading back to the route. Oh, okay. Ready. Ready to go. Ready?
Ready to go. Ready to go.
Speaker 4: Was there was there nothing going on at the, capitol?
Speaker 1: Work. We're all right. Not really. Not really. We're in a tunnel marching around letting people know we're here.
Okay. Good yeah.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes after this interaction at 12:30 PM, The US Capitol Police report a very large group heading to the Capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at approximately seventh Street.
Speaker 1: It does look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: At the same time, police body cam records police intervening between Trump supporters and a counter protester. The police encourage the crowd to keep marching toward the capital.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys. Let's keep the march going. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. During this time, a man named Ray Epps was filmed on the streets directing the crowd to the capitol building.
Speaker 1: As soon as president The Trump has finished speaking. We are going to the capital in that direction. That's where our true problems lies. When the Trump is done speaking, we are going to the capital. That's where our problem we are going to the capitol where our problems are.
It's now corrects it.
Speaker 0: He was filmed the night prior urging the crowd to go inside the capitol.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it out there. I'm probably gonna go to jail for it. Okay? Tomorrow, we need to Go into the capital. Into the capital.
Peacefully.
Speaker 0: The crowd surrounding him instantly calls him out as a fed. Fed. At 12 35 PM, Mike Pence's motorcade is seen heading to the capital, turning left on Constitution Avenue from Louisiana A new house.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me. You ain't about to stay back. Stay back, please. Alright? That's enough.
Stay back.
Speaker 0: A minute later, at 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives At the US Capitol. The vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM EST. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east over a mile away.
Speaker 3: But now they see all this stuff. It's all come to light. Doesn't happen that fast. And they wanna Recertify their votes. They wanna recertify, but the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back.
Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: A minute later At 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway. A path that leads directly to the west side of the capital. There are 2 sets of metal barricades here, behind which only 5 Capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member Congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capital while members in the crowd shout at him.
With this view, you can see the moment that the 1st set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the 2nd set of gates.
Speaker 1: Adrian. Adrian. Adrian. Go.
Speaker 0: Ryan Samsel, who we saw earlier in a white hoodie and red baseball cap approaches the police line. This would become the 1st major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police. We will show this crucial interaction in its entirety and use multiple angles to see what happens at this all important flashpoint. Ray Epps, who we just saw calling for demonstrators to enter the capital, can be seen approaching the front of the barricades and speaking to Ryan Samsel. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line.
After the gate is forcefully pushed forward, US Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards is knocked to the ground. Ryan Samsel immediately runs to her aid to help her get back on her feet. The 1st violent skirmish of the day between demonstrators and police had begun. President Trump remains speaking on the Ellipse.
Speaker 3: In Clark County, Nevada, the accuracy settings on signature verification machines were purposely lowered Before, they were used to count over 130,000 ballots. If you signed your name as Santa It would go through.
Speaker 0: Just to the south at the First Street Southwest in Maryland Avenue Circle, demonstrators knocked down a second gate. Crowds are now advancing on the west front of the capital from 2 locations. With multiple lightly Maned police barricades down, the enlivened crowd makes their way quickly to the next barrier, the metal gates in front of the west plaza of the capital. Samsel can be seen tapping the shoulder of officer Edwards and saying something to her. Looking over the west side of the capital from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the West Plaza.
From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have see no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. At 12:58 PM, the lightweight fencing on the west lawn is pulled down completely by a single person. It is on this fence that signs with the words, area closed are affixed. Thousands of people who will walk up to the capital after 1 PM will never see these signs. Zooming in closer to the northwest corner of the plaza, we once again see Ray Epps at the head of the crowd in front of the next set of police barricades.
So far, we've seen him the previous day calling for the crowd to enter the capital. We saw him that morning directing people to the capital. We saw him at the 1st gate reach, and now here he is at the 2nd major gate reach. And it won't be the last we see Directly in front of him is where the crowd reaches the metal gates and enters onto the west plaza of the capital. At 12:59 PM, a man on the northwest sidewalk collapses.
Speaker 5: Can you please have someone respond Bottom of the west side with an individual that's down here unconscious and not briefed.
Speaker 0: The man's name is Benjamin Phillips. He is a computer programmer from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who traveled to DC to support president Trump. A crowd of people, including police officers, form around him to assist with life saving measures. While Benjamin Phillips fights for his life outside, Inside the capital, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes. President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the Capitol.
Speaker 3: Clear evidence that tens The thousands of votes were switched from president Trump to former vice president Biden.
Speaker 6: Madam speaker, members of congress, Pursuant to the constitution and the laws of the United States, the senate and the house of representatives are meeting in joint session. Verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors of the several states for president and vice president of the United States.
Speaker 0: Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 1: Unit Diggs, I need the last legal team that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, staffing. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 1: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer, pushing, throwing projectiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the That's the lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Launch. Launch.
Launch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek.
Speaker 1: You're
Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
Speaker 1: We need medical something. Put it on the phone.
Speaker 0: Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level.
Speaker 1: I was at the front line trying to to keep the peace between the patriot and the people that were hired by the government. And, I I caught a shot to the face, and then, that's about it.
Speaker 0: Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 1: 6, I need more the defense and lethal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, noncompliant. We've continued to give, I've continued get possible warnings about chemical meters just being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, No video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, Officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system as well as to provide participants reasonable An adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. Just feet away, Benjamin Phillips fights for his life. He has been down on the ground and not breathing for 13 minutes.
Speaker 1: 130. Where is the ambulance for this guy on the lower west?
Speaker 0: His speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around Capitol in Real Time.
Speaker 3: So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and god bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is interesting.
Thank you very much. For Arizona.
Speaker 6: Is the objection in writing and signed by a
Speaker 1: senator? New Senator.
Speaker 0: As representative Paul Ozar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house. MPD officer Daniel Thao arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back in Real time multi view.
We can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front crowd as president of the United States. Gosar and Cruz are having their objections to the electoral vote of Arizona read on the house floor. Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 1: We need more conditions. Hey. Hey, Castle. Hey. We need blast positions.
What do we got? I'm panicking it. We gotta get something, man. Come on. We got it back.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thao crosses the line engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD.
Speaker 1: 2 EC needed points. 2 EC needed.
Speaker 0: He then witnesses what he calls an APO or an assault on a police officer. With 30 officers between him and the crowd, it's unclear what assault he thought he saw in that moment. A few 100 feet away, back on the northwest sidewalk, Benjamin Phillips has been loaded onto a makeshift stretcher and is being carried north to a waiting ambulance.
Speaker 1: Hello, Sorry. They're bringing the patient up to the ambulance right now. They are refusing to come down.
Speaker 0: Tragically, Phillips would be pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Benjamin Phillips leaves behind 2 teenage
Speaker 1: children.
Speaker 0: Back inside the capitol building At 1:17 PM, vice president Mike Pence and senators returned to the senate chamber to debate the electoral vote challenge put forth by representative Paul Ossar. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of Capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Hammer, we need that. Let's go. Just shoot
Speaker 2: it. Go. Shoot.
Speaker 0: The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time. 3 minutes later at 1:21 Yep. The 1st explosive mission of the day is discharged. The demonstrators at the west plaza of the capital will be hit by an unrelenting barrage Aja grenades, incendiaries, rubber bullets, and gas for the next hour.
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. Fire. Hey. You good?
You good? Faster. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Hey.
Speaker 5: We got another individual down. People are doing CPR on me. DC five in
Speaker 1: the process. It's all here for a case of At
Speaker 0: 1:28 PM, a man has collapsed on the west plaza and is attended 2 by people in the crowd.
Speaker 1: They can't get anybody in here and the cops are throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
Speaker 0: He is unresponsive for several minutes. Fearing the risk of trampling, they carry him to a different location where they continue to try to resuscitate him.
Speaker 1: He's been a he's having a heart attack. He's been on the ground for 6 minutes. They carried him. They've been doing CPR. I think that man probably died.
I hope they
Speaker 0: Kevin Greesen leaves behind a wife and 5 children. Around 1:30 PM, on the southwest side of the plaza, Officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour. Just inside the Capitol, representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat from California, is responding to the challenge of the electoral count.
Speaker 7: The votes are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states.
Speaker 0: At one 32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just going to make things worse.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna make it worse. Hey. It's not. Hold. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold fire. Hold fire. Hold fire. Hey.
Hold fire. Hold fire.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out That's a burner, by the way, woman.
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade It can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 1: They come back with it? Hey. Can they throw it back? Okay.
Speaker 0: The smoke grenade is tossed back behind the police line by someone in the crowd. Eric.
Speaker 1: Eric, come here. Scott rounds.
Speaker 0: Officer Thao goes back for more rounds. This time, it's a CS gas canister.
Speaker 1: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: A triple chaser consists of 3 separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart, allowing increased area coverage. After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, Officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know, but this is triple chasing. I know, Oh, but this is what's it? I mean, I got pizza.
Speaker 0: Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd. Out.
Speaker 1: Next step back. Next step back.
Speaker 0: At around this same time, Ray Epps is once again caught from multiple Full cameras being at the frontline of the demonstrators near police barricades. No other person has been seen at this many flashpoints this many times. He walks freely up and down the police barricades multiple times, indicating with other demonstrators in a similar fashion to when we saw him whisper in Ryan Samsel's ear earlier before the first breach. At 1:38 PM, Donald Trump sends his first tweet after walking off the stage 24 minutes earlier. It reads, please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement.
They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. Around 1:40 PM, Ray Epps is one of the members of the crowd who helps lift up a large Trump sign and push it into the line of police officers on the west plaza of the capital. At 1:41 PM, body cam footage from officer Anthony Alioto records a discussion about the dangers of using CS gas in their situation. The officer petitions not to have Robert Glover, the on scene commander, authorize use of CS gas in the area.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is do not let Glover
Speaker 1: Other r
Speaker 2: c s. I don't it don't do.
Speaker 1: I don't just I had the rubber floor.
Speaker 0: 8 minutes later, at 1:49 PM, a riot is officially declared at the US Capitol.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and get compliance, but this is now the first to play a riot.
Speaker 5: 49 hours declaring it a riot.
Speaker 0: The fears of officer Alioto are soon realized when at 1:50 PM, officers use CS gas on the northwest side of the plaza and effectively gas themselves with aid from the wind. You can see multiple Officers struggling from the effects of the CS gas.
Speaker 2: Gina, be careful. It's blowing right back. I know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know. It's in my eye. You want a knife?
Speaker 5: Don't rub it. You know that. Rub it.
Speaker 0: Have successfully held the crowd back for over an hour from when the west side was first breached. At 1:50 9 PM. That all changes. The demonstrators overpower the police and begin to make their way toward the East Steps.
Speaker 1: Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And they just reached the capital again.
Speaker 0: Back on the northwest side of the capital, a man named Derek Vargo is ascending to the west terrace on the outside railing of the stairway. He is sprayed in the eyes with an inflammatory agent. Vargo reacts by heading back down the way he came when he is shoved off the wall by officer Bryant Williams, leading to a 25 foot drop. Some will call this an attempted murder. Vargo Urgeries to repair.
He lives with constant foot pain, pain in the middle of his spine, and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder that causes him flashbacks and nightmares of being pushed off the railing. At 2:0:3 PM, the 1st dispersal order is heard coming from a mobile LRAD or long range acoustic device. DC law requires police to give 3 separate warning with the LRAD system and an opportunity to disperse before using violence to clear a protest crowd. At 2:0:6 PM, police retreat up the east steps of the capital. Demonstrators soon follow and ascend the steps.
We hear the LRAD again at 2:0:7 PM. Affair to comply with this order, may subject you to a ref. It's unlikely that demonstrators heard either of these warnings given the situation on the plaza, which calls Into question the earlier stated DC law that requires these announcements to be clearly audible and to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse. Quick time to disperse. Back on the east side of the capital at 2:0:9 PM, Hunter Emke Guy is seen kicking in and punching multiple windows.
He is quickly tackled and detained by police. At 2:10 PM, demonstrators reached the west terrace Some push through police barricades. They will quickly move to what will become the first points of entry to the interior of the capital. Man throws a 2 by 4 through a glass pane, the first such broken window on the west side of the capital. Shortly thereafter, Dominic Pizzola pushes the window in using a police riot shield.
Protesters will soon enter the building through these breach points. At 2:12, Ray Epps sends a text message to his nephew telling him that he orchestrated the protest at the capitol and that he helped get people there. The video evidence we have seen Aspar would back up his claim. At 2:13 PM, president Trump tweets, I am asking One at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence.
Remember, we are the party of law and order. Respect The law and our great men and women in blue. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, Officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd. This crowd management round contains approximately 18 rubber balls.
Speaker 1: Hey. I need a round. Good, CF.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round, a round that contains 3 40 millimeter rubber projectiles. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 8: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule 1.
Speaker 0: At 2:16 PM, the parliamentarian doors are open from the inside providing another access point for demonstrators To enter the building. Down on the west plaza, officer Thao refers to police activity as, quote, shooting zombies.
Speaker 1: We're just shooting zombies, man. Hey. Here. We're shooting zombies. That's it.
It is. Just What? There it is. Okay. Well, we need to get Joe's out of here.
Alright. We're completely surrounded.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess says during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 8: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule
Speaker 0: 1. At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers, where 1 officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 1: Nothing's been helping. We need to win. Get that off. Right. We're gonna win that option.
We're gonna win a lot of pain in the life of the people. And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them I'm waiting here. It's it's it's we're multiplying
Speaker 0: as he is one of the first of the demonstrators to enter the capitol rotunda.
Speaker 3: 2021, y'all. This is
Speaker 1: insanity. Holy
Speaker 3: what is this? What is life?
Speaker 0: At the same time, a few blocks away, MPD officers are discussing new plans to enter the capital to support US Capitol Police.
Speaker 9: They're gonna burn that building down.
Speaker 1: That's fine. And we'll figure it out. Alright.
Speaker 9: They better reach out to the military right now is what they better do. Get the national guard suited off, get them Down here.
Speaker 1: Do you know where, we're suiting up? We're going in. We are? Yes. Where?
Damn. Ready to hear that?
Speaker 0: Still at 2:24 PM, Mike Pence has moved from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. The senate remains in session as senator For Kentucky, Mitch McConnell speaks on the floor. Also, at 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage To do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, Not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth. This would be a significant tweet to the January 6th committee for they claimed that it was the motivation for a surge into the capital complex.
Speaker 10: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the Capitol and inside the Capitol surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 1: I read. Put it off the step.
Speaker 0: DC MPD officer Cowrie, at the urging of officer Thao, misfires a CS Gas canister that eventually forces police to fall back and lose their position.
Speaker 1: Alright. Before this, I don't have my pick up. Let's go.
Speaker 0: As officers on the West Plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses. Back on the east side at 2:24 PM, demonstrators are able to force open doors from the inside. These are the Columbus doors which lead a short way to the rotunda of the capital.
Back outside on the west plaza,
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? We're trying to make it to, to Hennepin Gardens. We're going Alright.
Speaker 4: We
Speaker 1: down in long guns? What do we mean? Yes. Straight up. Any any munitions you have, CDU.
Speaker 0: At 2:28 PM in an interesting exchange, a press photographer on scene at the east entrance of the capital Taps a demonstrator on his hip and shoulder to move him out of the way so he can presumably get a better shot of the action. Back out on the south side of the west plaza, a demonstrator is taken down by 6 police officers. He receives multiple punches while in a face down prone position. At 2:30 PM, a security camera at the Crypt lobby shows demonstrators gaining access to the capital via overhead lift doors. At this same time, the house is called into final recess.
Speaker 8: Without objection, the host is gonna go back into recess.
Speaker 0: At 2:31 PM, Washington DC Dean mayor Muriel Bowser orders a curfew from 6 PM that evening to 6 AM the following morning. At 2:33 PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, in his words, set up.
Speaker 1: They set us up. They set up 64. Oh, absolutely. And then they asked you to come in 2 hours later. They set us up.
They needed everybody right away. No. Right away. They set up a pizza. Hold on.
We ain't got I'm a bit as real as as it can be. We are going to get overrun on the steps of the capital right now. We're getting hammers. Okay? If you guys go down there, the tank appliance is working very minimally.
There's 10,000 to 1. We're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the capitol while police officers watch them walk through the doors. Just feet away at 2:35 PM, minutes after losing the west plaza, officer Alioto throws a gas canister from the west terrace into the crowd that has amassed on the west plaza. This, along with other gas canisters sent into the crowds gets thrown back at the officers. Most of these officers still do not have gas masks. At the same time, on the west terrace, Officers are repeating the same mistakes they made one level lower on the west plaza.
An errant CS gas round is again fired into their held position on the west terrace. The spreading gas will eventually effectuate a retreat back into the capital through a narrow tunnel. This mistake would prove to be incredibly significant for the events that are yet to come. The retreat into the capital through the west terrace tunnel would create the conditions for the next standoff between demonstrators and police that would take place over the following hours. Instead of showing force outside of the tunnel, the police make the questionable decision of barricading themselves behind locked double doors, giving up the tactical position and retreating to a defensive posture.
At 2:39 PM, Metropolitan Police Department reinforcements arrive at the capitol entering through the east carriage door. At the same time, police officers discuss being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we are coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all Our masks. I didn't realize how bad I they shut us up to fail. They did. There was no way we were winning that.
And you've now you got at least 4 platoons that are just gassed out. Yeah. Literally. Because us, 54, doesn't have masks. Yeah.
Well, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for the New York employees to come. They didn't come. They didn't ask for them. Who cares about the street? Like, I authorize.
Get yes. Secure the capital.
Speaker 0: At 2:42 PM, journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an air force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby guarded by 3 police officers. MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the capitol building.
Speaker 1: You're live. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber. It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the Capitol that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day.
Speaker 1: Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Hey. He's got a gun.
Hey. He's got
Speaker 0: a gun. The shot heard was a single round fired by lieutenant Michael Byrd. It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck Stop. And she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
Speaker 1: They just killed a girl.
Speaker 3: They just shot to go right
Speaker 1: She's dead. One shot in the capitol. Report of a shooting in the capitol. Trying to ascertain information now.
Speaker 0: At 2:46 PM, approximately the same time as Ashley Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police officer Bird, A series of smoke and signal flares are activated at various locations around the capital.
Speaker 1: Flare. There's some kind of a flare in
Speaker 5: the sky
Speaker 8: Hi there.
Speaker 0: As the smoke clears, we again spot Ray Epps leaving the area and flanked by several individuals before leaving the capitol grounds for the day. Meanwhile, demonstrators continue to enter the capitol building. The 1st demonstrator enters the senate chamber. We're
Speaker 5: here. For tonight's Senate 7, we got protesters that are outside of the, senate chamber.
Speaker 0: Over the course of the next 30 minutes, the senate chamber will become a significant location of the day along with the capitol rotunda, the capital corridors
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. Don't start this
Speaker 0: and the West Terrace Tunnel. Prior to this point in the day, many demonstrators were free to roam the hallways and chambers of the building meeting little resistance from Capitol Police.
Speaker 2: The police who are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our 1st amendment allowed. Gather for Americans under the condition that they will come We gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
Speaker 0: Capitol police officer Robichaux asks a small group of demonstrators to remain peaceful.
Speaker 2: Show us. No
Speaker 1: Enough that
Speaker 2: are going to be heard. Everybody, this must be peaceful.
Speaker 1: This has to be peaceful. We have the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 0: Robichaud then proceeds to escort at least 1 demonstrator, Jacob Chancely, throughout various locations in the capital. At 2:46 PM, additional demonstrators continue to enter the senate chamber. Security footage shows no In the senate chamber at this time. At this point in the day, many of the demonstrators on the outside have no idea the capital has even been breached. Let's go back to the multi view to see what's going on around the capitol grounds.
On the southeast side, a group of MPD officers arrive to assist Capitol Police with clearing out the inside of the Capitol.
Speaker 1: 1/52 ground. We're sending NPD through the south door of the Capitol. There's about 25 units in hard gear.
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza, an enormous American flag has been draped over the scaffolding. On the east side of the capitol, Demonstrators have overtaken the stairs and continue to gather on the lawn. Back in the rotunda at 2:40 8 PM. We see demonstrators peacefully roaming around and taking photographs. The only law enforcement officers visible are standing in the doorway.
As demonstrators continue to roam the hallways, 1 officer has a concerning realization.
Speaker 1: They make it up here. They can go right to the center floor.
Speaker 9: They just don't realize it.
Speaker 0: Back at the West Terrace Tunnel, A demonstrator activates a fire extinguisher into the tunnel towards dozens of law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Go to 13. We need 3 dishes and 50 officers on the rotunda step at the top of the Yeah. We need remission, security, stuff. It wasn't back.
Yep. No. Right now. No. This is the number.
Wait. Okay. Because we gotta get numbers. Yeah. I'm seeing stars right now.
Speaker 0: Inside the senate chamber, Demonstrators are rummaging through desks looking for intel.
Speaker 1: Objection to the Arizona. Objection. He was gonna sell us out all along. Really? Look.
Objection to counter the electoral votes of the state of Arizona. Wait. No. That's No. No.
That's Okay. Alright. I live or die, man. He's with us.
Speaker 0: The standoff back at the West Terrace Tunnel continues with more demonstrators arriving on the outside and more officers arriving on the inside.
Speaker 1: Died. We're happy Get it. Put it over there. We're gonna go through this way, then you lock it We close this off. Get your arms through these shields.
You know how to put your arms? Yep. We have a hard Put your guy here. You. Show them how to lock the shields together and hold the shield.
Hey. Hold it. Hold it, baby. The only way we're gonna hold this door.
Speaker 0: At 2:55 PM, law enforcement begins to move demonstrators Out of the capital from various locations.
Speaker 1: We are American. I pray for every one of you, for your safety. Thanks. Communist is what you need to do. You need
Speaker 7: to give a communist who's gonna protect these people. We're patriots.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We're How much it cost for you to betray your a duty in your people?
Speaker 0: But they continue to struggle to control the rotunda and west plaza tunnel. Richard Barnett, the demonstrator who posed for this photo in house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, attempts to persuade an officer to let him back in to retrieve his flag.
Speaker 5: 4, I see Frank's are informational. I have a group of about 20 to 30 officers that are cordoned off on the south side there were a ton of stairs. We're just gonna hold the line over here so we get some kind of control on this crowd. There's no enforcement we can take at this time.
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey, man.
Speaker 3: Glad to see you guys. You guys
Speaker 1: Hey, Chris. Look at this guy. He's got
Speaker 4: you covered in blood. God bless you. You good, sir?
Speaker 1: Do you need medical attention? I'm good. I thank you, John. John.
Speaker 0: Jacob Chansley takes a seat at the senate dais. He decides to leave note for vice president Pence.
Speaker 1: Anything else? Now that you've done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please? Yeah. There's
Speaker 3: 4,000,000 people Coming in.
Speaker 1: So we're out of control. We love you guys. We love the cops.
Speaker 3: It's only a matter of Time. Justice is coming. Alright.
Speaker 1: Thank you, heavenly father, for raising us with this opportunity. Thank you, heavenly father. Sir, I have 75 people inside the senate chambers just for information. They are going through desks and on top of podium.
Speaker 0: Back at the rotunda, dozens of MPD officers prepare to clear out all of the demonstrators.
Speaker 1: We're not with capital. PC's a whole lot. I got you. Alright. 401.
Just deposit units outside the rotundial door. We've we've got CU hard squad one zero five. I'm currently at the main doors of the senate chambers. Let's go. Let's go.
Thank you. Thank you, officer. Thank you for your patience. We really appreciate it. That is glorious, a person, isn't it?
Speaker 3: That is glorious. It
Speaker 0: Freedom. Back at the scuffle At the West Terrace Tunnel, the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Leading up to the tunnel are a series of steps the demonstrators are having trouble navigating. It is a very Tense and dangerous situation in this area. For over an hour, the police have been inside the building behind the inner doors while demonstrators have occupied the tunnel.
Speaker 5: They they need additional assets.
Speaker 0: At 3:19 PM, the police successfully expelled the demonstrators from the tunnel. Dragged into the crowd of demonstrators. He is later returned to the police line and heads back to safety inside
Speaker 1: the tunnel. We have got it.
Speaker 0: The demonstrators managed to hold their ground and begin to push the police back into the tunnel. This sets the stage for the final tragic conflict. Demonstrators and police are engaged in physical altercations. Sprayed chemical agents are lingering in the narrow hallway.
Speaker 3: I know your pain. I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.
Speaker 0: At 4:17 PM, president Trump posts a one minute video to his Twitter account urging demonstrators to stay peaceful and go home.
Speaker 3: We have to have peace. We have to have law
Speaker 0: Twitter quickly attached a warning label on the video which read, this claim of election fraud is disputed, and this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or iced due to a risk of violence. This limited the reach of the message. Minutes later, Twitter would remove the entire video message from its platform.
Speaker 3: I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
Speaker 0: As the demonstrators are pushed back by police, they fall on top of each other. Some are pressed against the ground, unable to A woman named Roseanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, finds herself pinned under the deluge of bodies. The situation is critical.
Speaker 1: I need another case.
Speaker 5: No. All the time.
Speaker 4: Collapsed inside That that corridor from an asphyxiation, she couldn't breathe. Brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her. I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes and even I cut part of her jeans away so that I could try to fill her the moral pulse, and I couldn't feel a temporal Is that all? By the time that they decided to take the person up and give them to the police officer, she had blue lips and blood was coming Ever knows.
Speaker 1: Man, we're the DC fire needs to go for that CPR that's
Speaker 4: Didn't seem hopeful at all. I don't I don't think that person will be revived.
Speaker 0: Officers transport Boylan inside the tunnel and begin CPR.
Speaker 5: Could you please send the ambulance that is coming for the code down at Lower West Terrace to the house door for entry?
Speaker 1: We're guessing. Yeah. She got I think she got stuck under there. She fell down and That's rambled? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Boylan is transported inside for one last revival attempt.
Speaker 3: Is that one of ours?
Speaker 1: Is that one of ours?
Speaker 3: Is that one of ours?
Speaker 5: Throwing the media equipment over here that's Senate
Speaker 0: 5 PM. As the citywide 6 PM curfew looms, police are making progress securing the capital, and a steady stream of demonstrators leave the capital grounds. At 5:10 PM, police used tear gas to drive the remaining demonstrators is from the capital's upper levels. Over the PA system, an announcement is made that all individuals are required to leave Capitol Hill or be subject to arrest. At 5:40 PM, national guard troops begin to arrive at the capital to secure the premises.
1 minute after the curfew goes into effect, Donald Trump sends out a final message to his supporters that day. At 8 PM, the capital is declared secure.
Speaker 6: Today was a dark day in the history of the United States capital.
Speaker 0: Shortly after at 8:0:6 PM, the Senate resumes debate over the certification of Arizona's vote in the Senate chamber. The house would reconvene about an hour later. The election results will be certified. And 14 days later, Joe Biden will walk down the same tunnel and stairs where the police and demonstrators fought for hours and where Roseanne Boylan took her last breath to be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. January 6, 2021.
Buddhism that turned into a day of chaos and tragedy. For the past 3 years, the shadow of January 6th looms large in our politics, in our culture, and in our national conversation. Are we any closer to understanding the events of that day? Are we still in the timeline of January 6th?
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The speaker discusses the lack of knowledge surrounding the events of January 6th, claiming that the media and political class have focused on it while suppressing alternative narratives. They argue that despite the extensive footage available, there has been no comprehensive timeline of the day. The speaker suggests that January 6th is being used by both the Democratic and Republican parties to achieve their own goals, such as suppressing the population and preventing Donald Trump from running for president again. They highlight a documentary called "January 6th: A True Timeline" that presents a different perspective on the events, including law enforcement being overwhelmed and claims of being set up. The speaker concludes that the public should watch the documentary and draw their own conclusions.
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Speaker 0: An awful lot has happened to American society into the world over the past 3 years but for our media and political class most of it goes on mentioned because they're talking about something else they're talking about January 6th the most solemn day in American history moment worse than Pearl Harbor worse nine eleven worse than the American Civil War. That's what they're telling us. It's hard to respond to this because even now 3 years later most Americans have no real sense of what happened on January 6th and any attempts to tell them have been suppressed by the big tech companies or shouted down by NBC News and CNN and other news organizations. That's odd if you think about it. Why do most of us have no real idea what happened?
There's probably no event in American history that was filmed by more people from more angles than January 6th. And yet until very recently no one had put together a timeline. What happened? People walked of them from the White House to the Capitol, some of them went inside the building and we've been talking about the aftermath. But how did all of that happen?
It's on tape. Why haven't we seen it? Well, if you've watched Joe Biden recently, you know why you haven't seen it. Because January 6th is a perfect way for the Democratic Party and by the way the Republican Party for the party that controls this country, the Uniparty, to get what it wants, to suppress the population, to keep Donald Trump from running for president again, and to put its enemies in jail. Just the other day, Joe Biden often derided as senile.
Didn't seem senile at all as he gave a speech about January 6th. He seemed like a fascist. Watch this. Watch Joe Biden celebrate the fact that his political opponents were sent to prison and listen as the crowd applauds him bragging about how these Trump voters are rotting in prison. Why?
Speaker 1: Since that day, more than 1200 people have been charged for their assault on the Capitol. Nearly 900 of them have been convicted or plead guilty. Collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison. What's Trump done? Instead of calling him criminals, he's called these these insurrectionists Patriots.
Speaker 0: He's a vicious and cruel and hollow man and really gets the for any of that but it was on display in that speech is on display all around us and the only reason they get away with it is because again most of us have no real idea what actually happened on January 6th, but it is knowable because it was filmed from thousands of angles and that tape still exists to some extent it's still being suppressed by the Republican Speaker of the House by the way who could release it but hasn't memo to the Speaker go ahead and release that video but there's still enough in the public domain that a group filmmakers decided to put it all together. Now there's very little editorial commentary in their new documentary it's called January 6th a true timeline and it should be the most famous film in the United States but it's not we're hoping that changes soon the movie lays out the day's events moment by moment it shows you what actually happened at the Capitol from video that they did not shoot but collected once again from the public domain in some cases is from liberal journalists who are on the scene.
And they discovered a lot. For example at 224 while crowds outside the capital were still going growing the president then president president Trump tweeted this the USA demands the truth that's a very famous tweet the January 6th special commission, the fake committee of liars who, quote, investigated January 6th, made reference to that tweet repeatedly. They claimed it was the reason that protesters breached the capital. But that's a lie, like so much of what they said. Video from that day collected in this documentary tells a very different story.
At the moment that Trump tweeted that, Metro police law enforcement on the scene appeared to have accidentally tear gas themselves and run away from the scene that's what the video shows and that left a path to the capital wide open but assess for yourself here's the video
Speaker 2: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital And inside the capital surged.
Speaker 3: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 4: Hey, Rich. Put it up the step.
Speaker 3: DC MPD officer, Cowry, at the urging of officer Thao, misfires a CS gas canister that eventually forces police to fall back and lose their position. As officers on the West Plaza, unequipped with gas masks, Struggle breathing. The plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the West Plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the West Plaza entirely collapses.
Speaker 0: So we now know that there were more than 200 plainclothes federal informants in the crowd. Some of them were already inside the capital before it was breached before law enforcement opened the doors for the protesters in some cases they were already inside so you can draw your own conclusions from that. But we also know that a lot of law enforcement on the ground, those were local DC cops, Metropolitan PD you'd saw on that tape, and some of the Capitol Police had nothing to do with any kind of setup. In fact, they were the victims of it. As you could see in that clip, law enforcement on the scene were completely overwhelmed and the body Kim, video shot throughout the day shows that.
You see cops repeatedly telling each other that leadership has failed them and that's true. And that they've been quote, set up. Watch this.
Speaker 3: At 2:33 PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, In his words, set up.
Speaker 4: They set up up. That's what they did. They set up they set up 64. Absolutely. And then they asked No.
For 2 hours later, they set us up. They needed everybody by the way. No. By the way, they set us for pizza. No.
We ain't got it. We're doing we put away here with some
Speaker 3: At the same time, police officers discuss being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 4: I didn't know we are coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all had our I didn't realize how bad I they set us up to fail. Hey, Dave. There was no way we were winning that. And you've now you got at least 4 platoons that are just gassed out?
Yeah. Literally. Because us, 54 doesn't have masks. Yeah. Well, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for the party to use to come.
They didn't come. They didn't ask for.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Those aren't racist insurrections. Those are cops and they know exactly what happened. They got set up and so did a lot of people that day. It wasn't like federal authorities didn't know there was gonna be a big demonstration.
They knew very well. They've been talking about it for weeks. It's not a guess it's proven it's a fact so they knew what was up they've been set up now one of the protesters you may recognize from that day is a man called Jacob Chansley often called the media the QAnon Shaman he's the guy with a painted face and horns now the media repeatedly told us that he and Ashlee Babbit the military veteran who was murdered that day the unarmed woman who was shot to death by Michael Byrd that he was a threat to public safety and completely out of control. But, of course, the tape shows just the opposite as does this documentary. When Metro PD made their way to the senate floor and asked Chansley to leave, Chansley complied immediately.
He thanked officers and said, quote, god bless you as he left. Watch this.
Speaker 4: Let's go. Let's go. Thank you. Thank you, officer.
Speaker 0: Thank you for your patience. We really appreciate it. Thank you for your patience. We love you. God bless you.
That's what they said to the cops. Right these are the racist insurrection. Jacob Chansley did a hard time in prison but there he is telling cops he loves them as he walks peacefully unarmed out of the Senate chamber. So you may have concluded correctly that virtually everything you have heard he screamed at you for 3 years about January 6th is a lie and this tape proves it it's an hour long it is well worth your time we hope every American watches it and draws the obvious conclusion which is that our leadership class is poisonous power mad and dangerous they're the dangerous ones not the people who showed up at the Capitol to protest the theft of their democratic election the people who set it up in the 1st place joining us now is David Summerall. He's one of the producers of this documentary and we're very glad to have him join us.
David thanks so much for coming on. So you've been involved in, in trying to figure out what happened that day for the last 3 years and you did this amazing public service for the rest of us by putting together this documentary. Tell us some of the things that you learned from this.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's the things we didn't learn from anybody else. The select committee had every opportunity with all the evidence put a, you know, documentary out that showed what happened that day. And it and it's been interesting working with families, with the lawyers, you know, all the defendants that we can find that we can try to help and, go through this footage to find that their stories are all true that they tell. You know, If you notice, nobody's been charged by the FBI for lying about what they witnessed on January 6th, which I think is a big point. But the the discovery in this video I think the public really needs to see and that's why they've kept it hidden and dangled it like a carrot over the public for so long for 3 years when it tells a different story and the hostages you know they deserve to be released there there's no reason to keep people that were peaceful You know, guys like Chansley, like you said, you know, god bless you.
And then they put him in prison. So I don't understand, you know, why the public Didn't understand more about it other than they couldn't see it. And I hope they are properly outraged from this film.
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On January 6, 2021, a significant event unfolded at the U.S. Capitol, marked by a large gathering of citizens expressing concerns over the election results. The day began with President Trump addressing supporters at the Ellipse, encouraging them to march to the Capitol. As crowds moved toward the Capitol, tensions escalated, leading to the first breach of barricades. Key figures, including Ray Epps, were seen directing demonstrators. Police struggled to maintain order as the situation deteriorated, resulting in violence and chaos. Tragically, several individuals lost their lives, including Ashley Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland. The Capitol was eventually secured later that evening, but the events of that day have left a lasting impact on American politics and society, raising questions about accountability and the truth surrounding the incident.
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Speaker 0: January 6, 2021, Washington DC, the US Capitol building, an event that has been reported on more than any other in modern history. Despite excessive coverage, articles, books, documentaries, and congressional inquiries, many details about the timeline of events that day remain unknown to the public. Understanding what actually happened on January 6th without bias and with as much context as possible is extremely difficult. News organizations and mass media have controlled the story of that day. Big tech and social media companies have censored, shadow banned, and deplatformed eyewitness accounts, which further skews and misrepresents the truth from that day.
Many of us still do not know the names of those who were killed at the capital and the causes of their deaths. This video seeks to create a thorough and truthful timeline of the events of January 6th while shedding light on unheard stories, unseen footage, and new details. When facts are cherry picked for the sake of political narratives, We The People suffer. Truth, not agenda, is the motivation for this timeline. Prior to January 6, 2021, there had been a hundreds of peaceful rallies following the November 2020 election.
Polls showed that many Americans were concerned with election irregularities in key states that ended up deciding the presidential election for Joe Biden. None of these rallies ever turned violent. The morning of January 6th started no different than any of those other rallies. American citizens showing up together to express their first amendment protected right to petition their government with a meaningful concern. The mood of the crowd appeared to be joyful and hopeful.
It would be the last chance to see the president give a large speech to the nation. To properly understand the events that would soon unfold, it's important to acknowledge that there were many areas of interest that day where crowds were congregating. Those attending president Trump's speech assembled at the Ellipse, a 52 acre park located south of the White House and approximately 1 mile from the Capitol. Space was limited there, and the crowd was so big that a sea of people extended all the way to the Washington Monument. Elsewhere in Washington DC, crowds would assemble in the morning at both the west and the east side of the capitol.
Still others would loiter in the vicinity to await the next event that would take place that day, of which there were multiple permit holders in the area. In our first look inside the capitol building at 11:21 AM, CCTV picks up VP elect Kamala Harris exiting the building through the east senate carriage doors. At 11:41 AM, Ryan Samsel, a man who will later be pivotal in the first breach of the capital, crosses the street past multiple uniformed officers. Seconds later, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, wearing plain clothes, is seen crossing the same intersection. Sherwin would go on to lead the investigations of Samsel and hundreds of others.
4 minutes later, the same officer whose body cam recorded that interaction is moving through the crowd, responding to a call of a person with a gun. The crowd is compliant as the officers move through the space. They reach their intended target, and after a few minutes of questioning, let the man go. He had no firearm and was only carrying a knife.
Speaker 1: Someone saw that handle and thought it was a hand gun. Oh, yeah. This is my car. Okay? No way.
Question or issues. Alright.
Speaker 0: President Trump took the microphone at 12:01 PM.
Speaker 2: Me, you will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I when I turned on today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't wanna show that.
Speaker 0: The president gave a speech that morning that was very similar in tone and in style to the many campaign speeches and post election speeches he had given to audiences around the country.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the speech in my ear,
Speaker 0: thanks to Scott.
Speaker 3: At the
Speaker 0: exact time that Trump begins his speech, a live streamer is at peace circle at the precise location that the first capital barricade breach will occur 53 minutes later. You can see the metal bike rack fencing separating the street from the sidewalks in front of the capitol building. These area closed signs were posted in compliance with a restriction that went into effect September 7, 2020 due to the construction of the inauguration stage. At 12:0:4 PM, a group of demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, are seen walking west on Constitution Avenue toward First Street while being flanked by police officers from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 1: Well, we're being flanked by the DCP District. 63 bitches.
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the capital. For context, let's hear the president's full remarks during this portion of his speech.
Speaker 2: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down we're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the capitol, and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes following these remarks, the group of proud boys and demonstrators seen previously being flanked by the DCMPD have stopped for lunch at a row of food trucks in front of the US Department of Labor on Constitution Avenue. Eddie Block, seen here in a scooter, tells a live streamer the immediate plans
Speaker 1: around, letting
Speaker 3: people know we're here.
Speaker 1: Okay. Good time. Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes after this interaction, at 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report, a very large group heading to the capital from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at approximately seventh Street.
Speaker 3: Cruiser 50. Those look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: At the same time, police body cam records police intervening between Trump supporters and a counter protester. The police encourage the crowd to keep marching toward the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys. Let's keep the march going. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. During this time, a man named Ray Epps was filmed on the streets directing the crowd to the capitol building.
Speaker 1: As soon as president Trump is finished speaking, we are going to the capitol in that direction. That's where our true problems are. President Trump is done speaking. We are going to the Capitol. That's where our problem we are going to the Capitol where our problems are.
It's that direction.
Speaker 0: He was filmed the night prior, urging the crowd to go inside the capitol.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it out that I'm probably gonna go to jail for it. Okay? Tomorrow, we need to go into the capitol. Into the capitol. Peacefully.
Speaker 0: The crowd surrounding him instantly calls him out as a fed. At 12:35 PM, Mike Pence's motorcade is seen heading to the capital, turning left on Constitution Avenue from Louisiana Avenue.
Speaker 1: All go south. Get about to stay back. Stay back, please. Alright. Let's stop.
Stay back.
Speaker 0: A minute later, at 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol.
Speaker 4: The vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session.
Speaker 0: The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM Eastern. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the Capitol.
Speaker 3: Mike Parker.
Speaker 0: At this exact moment, president Trump is mentioning Mike Pence's upcoming certification at his speech on the Ellipse over a mile away.
Speaker 2: But now they see all this stuff. It's all come to light. Doesn't happen that fast. And they wanna recertify their votes. They wanna recertify.
But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: Minute later at 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the capital. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the
Speaker 3: Capitol.
Speaker 5: Are you aware of a US Capitol Police directive initiated by then sergeant at arms Paul Irving to the architect of the Capitol sent on January 5th to move approximately 500 bike racks serving as security barricades away from First Street Northeast and Constitution Avenue to the
Speaker 3: east front?
Speaker 1: No, sir. I'm not aware of that. We have not, delved into that.
Speaker 5: This week, we've uncovered emails from the architect of the capitol where it's clear that this was directed by the house sergeant at arms against legitimate security concerns from the AOC, where the AOC, rep Blanton, called it illogical. This is yet another example of the dysfunction of the security decision making process of the Capitol Police Board.
Speaker 0: Back outside where the crowd has gathered at Peace Circle, there are 2 sets of metal barricades here behind which only 5 capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capital while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates. Ryan Samsel, who we saw earlier in a white hoodie and red baseball cap, approaches the police line. This would become the first major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police.
We will show this crucial interaction in its entirety and use multiple angles to see what happens at this all important flash point. Ray Epps, who we just saw calling for demonstrators to enter the capital, can be seen approaching the front of the barricades and speaking to Ryan Samsel. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line. After the gate is forcefully pushed forward, US Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards is knocked to the ground. Ryan Samsel immediately runs to her aid to help her get back on her feet.
The first violent skirmish of the day between demonstrators and police had
Speaker 3: begun.
Speaker 0: President Trump remains speaking on the Ellipse.
Speaker 2: In Clark County, Nevada, the accuracy settings on signature verification machines were purposely lowered before they were used to count over 130,000 ballots. If you signed your name as Santa Claus, it would go through.
Speaker 0: Just to the south at the First Street Southwest in Maryland Avenue Circle, demonstrators knocked down a second gate. Crowds are now advancing on the west front of the capitol from 2 locations. With multiple lightly manned police barricades down, the enlivened crowd makes their way quickly to the next barrier, the metal gates in front of the west plaza of the capitol. Samsel can be seen tapping the shoulder of officer Edwards and saying something to her. Looking over the west side of the capitol from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza.
From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. At 12:58 PM, the lightweight fencing on the west lawn is pulled down completely by just a few people. It is on this fence that signs with the words area closed are affixed. Thousands of people who will walk up to the capitol after 1 PM will never see these signs. Zooming in closer to the northwest corner of the plaza, we once again see Ray Epps at the head of the crowd in front of the next set of police barricades.
So far, we've seen him the previous day calling for the crowd to enter the capitol. We saw him that morning, directing people to the capitol. We saw him at the first gate breach, and now here he is at the second major gate breach. And it won't be the last we see of him. Directly in front of him is where the
Speaker 1: can you please have someone respond to my location? AT, at the bottom of the west side with an individual that's down here unconscious and not reached.
Speaker 0: The man's name is Benjamin Phillips. He is a computer programmer from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who traveled to DC to support president Trump. A crowd of people, including police officers, form around him to assist with life saving measures. While Benjamin Phillips fights for his life outside, inside the capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes. President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that has already amassed at the Capitol.
Speaker 2: Clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from president Trump to former vice president Biden.
Speaker 6: Madam speaker, members of congress, pursuant to the constitution and the laws of the United States, the senate and house of representatives are meeting in joint session. Verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors in several states, president and vice president of the United States.
Speaker 0: Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I need less lethal team They could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, stapling. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer, pushing, throwing projectiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less than lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Launch. Launch.
Launch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek.
Speaker 1: You're shooting us.
Speaker 3: Oh, we don't. We need medical something.
Speaker 1: No. We Safety
Speaker 0: procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level.
Speaker 1: I was at the front line trying to keep the peace between the patriot and the people that were hired by the government. And, I caught a shot to the face, and then, that's about it.
Speaker 0: Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 3: Chris, I got the I need more defensive legal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, non compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give multiple warnings about, typical munitions being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system, as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. Just feet away, Benjamin Phillips fights for his life. He has been down on the ground and not breathing for 13 minutes.
Speaker 3: 1:30. Where is the ambulance for this guy on the lower west?
Speaker 0: President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the Capitol in real time.
Speaker 2: So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and god bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Dollars from Arizona.
Speaker 6: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 2: Yes. It is.
Speaker 0: As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the
Speaker 3: police are trying to control. Back where
Speaker 0: we can see simultaneous angles, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States. Gosar and Cruz are having their objections to the electoral vote of Arizona read on the House floor. Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you
Speaker 3: guys. Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 1: Hey. We need more munitions. Hey, captain. Hey. We need blast commision.
Speaker 3: What do we got?
Speaker 1: I'm panicking it.
Speaker 3: We gotta get something, man. Come on.
Speaker 1: We gotta do that.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thau crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD.
Speaker 1: True ECD to point. True ECD.
Speaker 0: He then witnesses what he calls an APO or an assault on a police officer.
Speaker 1: APO. Melanie. APO.
Speaker 0: With 30 officers between him and the crowd, it's unclear what assault he thought he saw in that moment. A few 100 feet away, back on the northwest sidewalk, Benjamin Phillips has been loaded onto a makeshift stretcher and is being carried north to a waiting ambulance.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir. They're not bringing the patient up to the ambulance right now. They are refusing to come down.
Speaker 0: Tragically, Phillips would be pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Benjamin Phillips leaves behind 2 teenage children. Back inside the capitol building at 1:17 PM, vice president Mike Pence and senators return to the senate chamber to debate the electoral vote challenge put forth by representative Paul Gosar. At 1:17 PM, a second wave of DC Metropolitan Police officers show up on the east side of the capitol. They are the first to bring in explosive ammunition rounds that they will soon distribute to officers on the west plaza.
Officer Tara Tindall is crouched on the ground readying CS gas rounds. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Commander, we need them. Let's go. Let's shoot it. Go.
Speaker 3: Go. Go.
Speaker 1: Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Go. Go. Go. Go.
Speaker 3: Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Go. Go. Go. Go.
Speaker 1: Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
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Speaker 0: At 1:21 PM, the explosive munitions that arrived 4 minutes earlier have made their way to officers on the west plaza. The first one fired into the crowd can be seen on the lower right of your screen. Stop. At 1:24 PM, on scene commander officer Robert Glover gives the first audible authorization to deploy explosives into the crowd. The demonstrators at the west plaza of the capital will be hit by an unrelenting barrage of grenades, incendiaries, rubber bullets, and gas for the next hour.
At 1:28 PM, a man has collapsed on the west plaza and is attended to by people in the crowd.
Speaker 3: They can't get anybody in here, and the
Speaker 1: cops are throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
Speaker 0: He is unresponsive for several minutes. Fearing the risk of trampling, they carry him to a different location where they continue to try to resuscitate him. He's
Speaker 1: been he's having a heart attack. He's been on the
Speaker 3: ground for 6 minutes. They carried him.
Speaker 1: They've been doing CPR. I think that man
Speaker 0: Kevin Greesen leaves behind a wife and 5 children. Around 1:30 PM, on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour. Just inside the Capitol, representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat from California, is responding to the challenge of the electoral count.
Speaker 7: The votes are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just
Speaker 3: going to make things worse.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna make it worse. It's not hold. Hold fire. Hold fire. Hold fire.
Hold fire. Hold fire.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out with smoke. I got the burner
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 1: They come back with it? Can they throw it back? I got you.
Speaker 0: The smoke grenade is tossed back behind the police line by someone in the crowd. Eric,
Speaker 3: do we have any scat rounds?
Speaker 0: Officer Thao goes back for more rounds. This time, it's a CS gas canister.
Speaker 3: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: A triple chaser consists of 3 separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart, allowing increased area coverage. After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier.
Speaker 1: I got a triple chaser. Hold on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I
Speaker 0: Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd. At around this same time, Ray Epps is once again caught from multiple cameras being at the front line of the demonstrators near police barricades. No other person has been seen at this many flash points this many times. He walks freely up and down the police barricades multiple times, communicating with other demonstrators in a similar fashion to when we saw him whisper in Ryan Samsel's ear earlier before the first breach. Around 1:40 PM, Ray Epps is one of the members of the crowd who helps lift up a large Trump sign and push it into the line of police officers on the west plaza of the capitol.
At 1:41 PM, body cam footage from officer Anthony Alioto records a discussion about the dangers of using CS gas in their situation. The officer petitions not to have Robert Glover, the on scene commander, authorize use of CS Gas in the area.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is do not let Glover authorize CS. I don't I don't know. I don't just I have the problem for all.
Speaker 0: 8 minutes later, at 1:49 PM, a riot is officially declared at the US Capitol.
Speaker 3: We're gonna try to get compliance, but this is now effectively
Speaker 1: a riot.
Speaker 3: 2:49 hours declaring it a riot.
Speaker 0: The fears of officer Alioto are soon realized when at 1:50 PM, officers use CS gas on the northwest side of the plaza and effectively gas themselves with aid from the wind. You can see multiple officers struggling from the effects of the CS gas.
Speaker 1: Gina, be careful. It's blowing right back.
Speaker 3: I know. Okay. It's in my eye. You okay? Yeah.
You're rubbing. You know that.
Speaker 0: Over on the east side of the Capitol, the gates have successfully held the crowd back for over an hour from when the west side was first breached. At 1:59 PM, that all changes. The demonstrators overpower the police and begin to make their way toward the east steps.
Speaker 3: Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And they just reached the castle again.
Speaker 0: Back on the northwest side of the capital, a man named Derek Vargo is ascending to the west terrace on the outside railing of the stairway. He is sprayed in the eyes with an inflammatory agent. Vargo reacts by heading back down the way he came when he is shoved off the wall by officer Bryant Williams, leading to a 25 foot drop. Vargo is carried away on a makeshift stretcher by officers and bystanders. Vargo suffered a fractured ankle and extensive mid foot injuries that would require surgeries to repair.
He lives with constant foot pain, pain in the middle of his spine, and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder that causes him flashbacks and nightmares of being pushed off the railing. At 2:0:3 PM, the first dispersal order is heard coming from a mobile LRAD or long range acoustic device.
Speaker 1: All people must be
Speaker 0: DC law requires police to give 3 separate warning with the LRAD system and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or munitions to clear a protest crowd. At 2:0:6 PM, police retreat up the east steps of the capitol. Demonstrators soon follow and ascend the steps. We hear the LRAD again at 2:0:7 PM. They are to comply with this order.
They subject you to arrest. It's unlikely that demonstrators heard either of these warnings given the situation on the plaza, which calls into question the earlier stated DC law that requires these announcements to be clearly audible and to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse. Back on the east side of the capital at 2:0:9 PM, Hunter Emke is seen kicking in and punching multiple windows.
Speaker 1: He is quickly tackled and
Speaker 0: detained by police. He is quickly tackled and detained by police. At 2:10 PM, demonstrators reach the west terrace and push through police barricades. They will quickly move to what will become the first points of entry to the interior of the Capitol. A man throws a 2 by 4 through a glass pane, the first such broken window on the west side of the capitol.
Shortly thereafter, Dominic Pizzola pushes the window in using a police riot shield. Protesters will soon enter the building through these breach points. At 2:12, Ray Epps sends a text message to his nephew telling him that he orchestrated the protest at the capitol and that he helped get people there. The video evidence we have seen thus far seems to back up his claim.
Speaker 1: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd. This crowd management round contains approximately 18 rubber balls.
Speaker 3: Hey, I need a round.
Speaker 1: Do you have CF?
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round, a round that contains 3 40 millimeter rubber projectiles. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:16 PM, the parliamentarian doors are open from the inside, providing another access point for demonstrators to enter the building. Down on the west plaza, officer Thao refers to police activity as, quote, shooting zombies.
Speaker 1: Alright. We're completely around.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 4: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule 1.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers, where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 3: To win. To win.
Speaker 1: To win. Win. I know. Right. We're gonna win that option.
We'll get them with a lot of pain for flying.
Speaker 3: And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting way grayer. It's it's we're multiplying them by
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, John Earl Sullivan is recording as he is one of the first of the demonstrators to enter the Capitol rotunda.
Speaker 1: 2021, y'all. This is insanity. Holy shit. What is this? What is life?
Speaker 0: At the same time, a few blocks away, MPD officers are discussing new plans to enter the capital to support US Capitol Police. We're gonna burn that
Speaker 1: building now. That's fine. And we'll figure it out. Alright. They better reach out to the military right now is what they better do.
Get the national guard suited up.
Speaker 0: Get them down here.
Speaker 1: Do you know where, we're suiting up. We're going in.
Speaker 3: We are?
Speaker 1: Yes. Where? Damn. Ready to hear that?
Speaker 0: Still at 2:24 PM, Mike Pence has moved from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. The senate remains in session as senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell speaks on the floor. Also, at 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth. This would be a significant tweet to the January 6th committee for they claimed that it was the motivation for a surge into the capital complex.
Speaker 8: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 3: Hey, Rich. Put it
Speaker 1: over the scaffolding.
Speaker 0: At the urging of officer Thao, a DC MPD officer attempts to fire a CS gas canister into the crowd.
Speaker 1: We're fired up in here. Over there.
Speaker 3: Alright. Before this, I don't have my I got it.
Speaker 1: Go. Just
Speaker 0: A short time later, after being gassed out, the police are forced to fall back and they soon lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses. Back on the east side at 2:24 PM, demonstrators are able to force open doors from the inside.
These are the Columbus doors which lead a short way to the rotunda of the capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, an elderly woman is violently pushed by police down a set of concrete stairs 3 times, which incites the crowd around her.
Speaker 1: Hey. Did you hear that? Yeah. We're trying to make it to, the Hennepin Gardens. We're going in.
Alright.
Speaker 3: Down in long guns?
Speaker 1: Yes. Straight up. Any any munitions you have, CDU.
Speaker 0: At 2:28 PM, in an interesting exchange, a press photographer on scene at the east entrance of the Capitol taps a demonstrator on his hip and shoulder to move him out of the way so he can presumably get a better shot of the action. Back out on the south side of the west plaza, a demonstrator is taken down by 6 police officers. He receives multiple punches while in a face down, prone position. At 2:30 PM, a security camera at the crypt lobby shows demonstrators gaining access to the capitol via overhead lift doors. At this same time, the house is called into final recess.
Speaker 4: Without objection, the house is gonna go back into recess.
Speaker 0: At 2:31 PM, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser orders a curfew from 6 PM that evening to 6 AM the following morning. At 2:33 PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, in his words, set up.
Speaker 1: They set up the up. That's what they did. They set us up. They set up 64. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And then they asked
Speaker 1: about to come in 2 hours later. They set us up. They needed everybody that way. No. By the way, they set up the police up.
Speaker 3: I'm a be as real as I it can be. We are going to get overrun on the steps of the Capitol right now.
Speaker 1: We're getting hammered. Okay?
Speaker 3: If you guys go down there, the paint compliance is working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1. We're gonna lose the steps, and and we're getting people hurt like a mother
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the Capitol while police officers watch them walk through the doors. Just feet away at 2:35 PM, minutes after losing the West Plaza, officer Alioto throws a gas canister from the west terrace into the crowd that has a mast on the west plaza. This, along with other gas canisters sent into the crowds, gets thrown back at the officers. Most of these officers still do not have gas masks. At the same time on the west terrace, officers are repeating the same mistakes they made one level lower on the west plaza.
An errant CS gas round is again fired into their held position on the west terrace. The spreading gas will eventually effectuate a retreat back into the capital through a narrow tunnel. This mistake would prove to be incredibly significant for the events that are yet to come. The retreat into the capital through the west terrace tunnel would create the conditions for the next standoff between demonstrators and police that would take place over the following hours. Instead of showing force outside of the tunnel, the police make the questionable decision of barricading themselves behind locked double doors, giving up the tactical position, and retreating to a defensive posture.
While the police make their stand inside the West Terrace Tunnel, at 2:38 PM, Donald Trump sends out a tweet addressing the actions at the Capitol. It reads, please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. At 2:39 PM, Metropolitan Police Department reinforcements arrive at the Capitol, entering through the east carriage door.
At the same time, police officers discuss being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we are coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all had our masks. I realize how bad I
Speaker 6: they set us up to fail. They did. There was no way we were winning that. And you've now you got at least 4 platoons that are just gassed out. Yeah.
Literally. Because us, 54 doesn't have masks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for any more platoons to come. They didn't come.
Speaker 6: They didn't ask for
Speaker 1: him. Who cares about the street, like, my order lies?
Speaker 6: Get yes. To secure the capital.
Speaker 0: At 2:42 PM, journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an air force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby guarded by 3 police officers. MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the capitol building.
Speaker 3: You're live. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber. It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the capitol that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day.
Speaker 3: Woah. Here's the gun.
Speaker 1: Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Here's the gun.
Speaker 0: The shot heard was a single round fired by Lieutenant Michael Byrd. It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck. And she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
Speaker 3: One shot in the capital. Report of a shooting in the capital. Trying to ascertain information now.
Speaker 0: At 2:46 PM, approximately the same time as Ashley Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police officer Bird, a series of smoke and signal flares are activated at various locations around the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Flare. There's some kind of a flare in the sky there.
Speaker 0: As the smoke clears, we again spot Ray Epps leaving the area and flanked by several individuals before leaving the capitol grounds for the day. Meanwhile, demonstrators continue to enter the capitol building. The first demonstrator enters the senate chamber.
Speaker 3: Senate 7, we got protesters that are outside of the, senate chamber.
Speaker 0: Over the course of the next 30 minutes, the senate chamber will become a significant location of the day along with the capitol rotunda, the capitol corridors, and the West Terrace tunnel. Prior to this point in the day, many demonstrators were free to roam the hallways and chambers of the building, meeting little resistance from Capitol Police.
Speaker 1: The police here are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our first amendment allowed. Gather for Americans under the condition that they will come and gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
Speaker 0: Capitol police officer Robichaux asks a small group of demonstrators to remain peaceful.
Speaker 1: Show us. No escaping. No assault. Remain calm. We're not doing We're not going to be heard.
Everybody, this must be peaceful. This has to be peaceful. We have the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 0: Robichaud then proceeds to escort at least one demonstrator, Jacob Chancely, throughout various locations in the capital. At 2:46 PM, additional demonstrators continue to enter the senate chamber. Security footage shows no capitol police presence in the senate chamber at this time. At this point in the day, many of the demonstrators on the outside have no idea the Capitol has even been breached. Let's go back to the multi view to see what's going on around the Capitol grounds.
On the southeast side, a group of MPD officers arrive to assist capitol police with clearing out the inside of the capitol.
Speaker 3: 1 point 2 ground. We're sending MPD through the south door of the capitol. There's about 25 units in hard gear.
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza, an enormous American flag has been draped over the scaffolding. On the east side of the capitol, demonstrators have overtaken the stairs and continue to gather on the lawn. Back in the rotunda at 2:48 PM, we see demonstrators peacefully roaming around and taking photographs. The only law enforcement officers visible are standing in the doorway. As demonstrators continue to roam the hallways, one officer has a concerning realization.
Speaker 3: They make it up here. They can go right to the center floor.
Speaker 1: They just don't realize it.
Speaker 0: Back at the West Terrace tunnel, a demonstrator activates a fire extinguisher into the tunnel towards dozens of law enforcement officers. Wanna put Put
Speaker 1: Right now. No. No. Wait.
Speaker 3: Okay. Because we gotta get numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm seeing stars right now.
Speaker 0: Inside the senate chamber, demonstrators are rummaging through desks looking for intel.
Speaker 3: Objection to the Arizona. Objection.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna sell us out all
Speaker 0: The stand The stand off back at the West Terrace tunnel continues with more demonstrators arriving on the outside and more officers arriving on the inside.
Speaker 1: Get it put it over there. We're gonna drop it this way, then you lock it to the door. We close this off. Get your arms through these shields. You know how to put your arms get we have a hard platoon guy here.
You. Show them how to lock the shields together and hold the shields. Hey. Hold it. Hold it, baby.
It's the only way we're gonna hold this door.
Speaker 0: At 2:55 PM, law enforcement begins to move
Speaker 1: You need to give up communism for what you need to do. You need to give up communism for protecting these people. We're patriots. What's it cost for you to betray your
Speaker 0: But they continue to struggle to control the rotunda and West Plaza tunnel. Richard Barnett, the demonstrator who posed for this photo in house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, attempts to persuade an officer to let him back in to retrieve his flag.
Speaker 3: Corey King Frankler, informational. I have a group of about 20 to 30 officers that are cordoned off on the south side of the front of stairs. We're just gonna hold the line over here, then we get some kind of control on this crowd. There's no enforcement we can take at this time.
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey, man. Glad to see you guys. You guys are Patriots. Look at this guy.
He's got covered in blood. God bless you. You good, sir? Do you need medical attention? I'm good.
Thank you. Alright.
Speaker 0: Jacob Chanceley takes a seat at the senate dais. He decides to leave a note for vice president Pence.
Speaker 1: Now that you've done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Listen. There's 4,000,000 people coming in,
Speaker 1: so we're out of control. We love the guys. We love the cops. Before they proceed. It's only a matter of time.
Justice is coming. Alright. Thank you, heavenly father, for bringing us with this opportunity. Break up. That's your MPD.
Speaker 3: Sir, I have 75 people inside the senate chambers just for information. They are going through desks and on top of podium.
Speaker 0: Back at the rotunda, dozens of MPD officers prepare to clear out all of the demonstrators.
Speaker 3: 105. I'm currently at the main door to the senate chamber.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, officer.
Speaker 0: Back at the scuffle at the West Terrace tunnel, the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Leading up to the tunnel are a series of steps that the demonstrators are having trouble navigating. It is a very tense and dangerous situation in this area. For over an hour, the police have been inside the building behind the inner doors while demonstrators have occupied the tunnel. At 3:13 PM, President Trump sends another tweet.
He writes, I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence. Remember, we are the party of law and order. Respect the law and our great men and women in blue. Thank you.
Speaker 3: 405 John is advising they need additional assets.
Speaker 0: At 3:19 PM, the police successfully expel the demonstrators from the tunnel.
Speaker 3: I tried it.
Speaker 0: During the skirmish, a US Capitol Police officer is dragged into the crowd of demonstrators. He is later returned to the police line and heads back to to safety inside the tunnel.
Speaker 1: We have
Speaker 0: got it. The demonstrators manage to hold their ground and begin to push the police back into the tunnel. This sets the stage for the final tragic conflict. Demonstrators and police are engaged in physical altercations. Sprayed chemical agents are lingering in the narrow hallway.
Speaker 2: I know your pain. I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.
Speaker 0: At 4:17 PM, president Trump posts a 1 minute video to his Twitter account urging demonstrators to stay peaceful and go home.
Speaker 2: We have to have peace. We have to have law and order
Speaker 0: Twitter quickly attached a warning label on the video which read, this claim of election fraud is disputed, and this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence. This limited the reach of the message. Minutes later, Twitter would remove the entire video message from its platform.
Speaker 2: I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
Speaker 0: As the demonstrators are pushed back by police, they fall on top of each other. Some are pressed against the ground, unable to move. A woman named Roseanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, finds herself pinned under the deluge of bodies. The situation is critical.
Speaker 1: No. I can't. No. What's that? Collapsed inside that that corridor from an asphyxiation.
She couldn't breathe. Brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her. I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes and even I cut part of her jeans away so that I could try to fill her femoral pulse, and I couldn't fill her femoral force at all. By the time that they decided to take the person up and give them to the police officer, she had blue lips and blood was coming out of her nose.
Speaker 3: Man, where does DC fire need to go for that CPR CPR that's going on?
Speaker 1: Didn't seem hopeful at all. I don't I don't think that person will be revived.
Speaker 0: Officers transport Boylan inside the tunnel and begin CPR. I'm passing that.
Speaker 1: Help. Hey. Let me get
Speaker 3: Could you please send the ambulance that is coming for the code down at Lower West Terrace to the house door for entry?
Speaker 1: Oh, she's stuck, bro.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah. She got I think she got stuck under there. She fell down and
Speaker 3: That's terrible? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Boylan is transported inside for one last revival attempt.
Speaker 3: CDU 70, they're destroying the media equipment over here at the Senate AG. Got me. Should we buy protesters are
Speaker 0: At 5 PM, as the citywide 6 PM curfew looms, police are making progress securing the capitol and a steady stream of demonstrators leave the capitol grounds. At 5:10 PM, police use tear gas to drive the remaining demonstrators from the capitol's upper levels. Over the PA system, an announcement is made that all individuals are required to leave Capitol Hill or be subject to arrest. At 5:40 PM, national guard troops begin to arrive at the capitol to secure
Speaker 3: the premises.
Speaker 0: 1 minute after the curfew goes into effect, Donald Trump sends out a final message to his supporters that day. At 8 PM, the capitol is declared secure.
Speaker 6: Today was a dark day in the history of the United States capital.
Speaker 0: Shortly after at 8:0:6 PM, the senate resumes debate over the certification of Arizona's vote in the senate chamber. The house would reconvene about an hour later.
Speaker 1: Not. How
Speaker 0: are The election results will be certified. And 14 days later, Joe Biden will walk down the same tunnel and stairs where the police and demonstrators fought for hours and where Roseanne Boylan took her last breath to be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. January 6, 2021, a day of hope and patriotism that turned into a day of chaos and tragedy. For the past 3 years, the shadow of January 6th looms large in our politics, in our culture, and in our national conversation. Are we any closer to understanding the events of that day?
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January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., saw the U.S. Capitol become the center of a chaotic event following a large rally where supporters gathered to express concerns over the election results. The day began peacefully, with crowds assembling at various locations, including the Ellipse for President Trump's speech. As Trump urged attendees to march to the Capitol, tensions escalated. Key moments included the first breach of barricades, the involvement of individuals like Ray Epps, and police responses that included the use of munitions. Tragically, several individuals lost their lives amid the chaos, including Ashley Babbitt, who was shot, and others who suffered medical emergencies. The day concluded with the Capitol being declared secure after a curfew was imposed, and Congress resumed its certification of the electoral votes later that evening. The events of January 6 continue to impact American politics and discourse.
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Speaker 0: January 6, 2021. Washington DC. The US Capitol Building. An event that has been reported on more than any other in modern history. Despite excessive coverage, articles, books, documentaries, and congressional inquiries, many details about the timeline of events that day remain unknown to the public.
Understanding what actually happened on January 6th without bias and with as much context as possible is extremely difficult. News organizations and mass media have controlled the story of that day. Big tech and social media companies have censored, shadow banned, and deplatformed eyewitness accounts, which further skews and misrepresents the truth from that day. Many of us still do not know the names of those who were killed at the capital and the causes of their deaths. This video seeks to create a thorough and truthful timeline of the events of January 6th while shedding light on unheard stories, unseen footage, and new details.
When facts are cherry picked for the sake of political narratives, We The People suffer. Truth, not agenda, is the motivation for this timeline. Prior to January 6, 2021, there had been a hundreds of peaceful rallies following the November 2020 election. Polls showed that many Americans were concerned with election irregularities in key states that ended up deciding the presidential election for Joe Biden. None of these rallies ever turned violent.
The morning of January 6th started no different than any of those other rallies. American citizens showing up together to express their First Amendment protected right to petition their government with a meaningful concern. The mood of the crowd appeared to be joyful and hopeful. It would be the last chance to see the president give a large speech to the nation. To properly understand the events that would soon unfold, it's important to acknowledge that there were many areas of interest that day where crowds were congregating.
Those attending president Trump's speech assembled at the Ellipse, a 52 acre park located directly south of the White House and approximately 1 mile from the Capitol. Space was limited there, and the crowd was so big that a sea of people extended all the way to the Washington Monument. Elsewhere in Washington DC, crowds would assemble in the morning at both the west and the east side of the capitol. Still others would loiter in the vicinity to await the next event that would take place that day, of which there were multiple permit holders in the area. In our first look inside the capitol building at 11:21 AM, CCTV picks up VP elect Kamala Harris exiting the building through the east senate carriage doors.
At 11:41 AM, Ryan Samsel, a man who will later be pivotal in the first breach of the capitol, crosses the street past multiple officers. Seconds later, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, wearing plain clothes is seen crossing the same intersection. Sherwin would go on to lead the investigations of Samsel and hundreds of others. 4 minutes later, the same officer whose body cam recorded that interaction is moving through the crowd, responding to a call of a person with a gun. The crowd is compliant as the officers move through the space.
They reach their intended target, and after a few minutes of questioning, let the man go. He had no firearm and was only carrying a knife.
Speaker 1: I almost saw that handle and thought it was a hand gun. Oh, yeah. This is my car. Okay? There's no question or issues.
Alright. Issues. Yeah. Alright. Alright.
Be safe. Thank you. You too. You guys be safe. Trump.
Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.
Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.
President Trump took the microphone at 12:0:1 PM.
Speaker 2: Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I when I turned on today, I looked and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't wanna show that.
Speaker 0: The president gave a speech that morning that was very similar in tone and in style to the many campaign speeches and post election speeches he had given to audiences around the country.
Speaker 1: So I'm listening to the speech in my ear, thanks to Scott.
Speaker 0: At the exact time that Trump begins his speech, a live streamer is at Peace Circle at the precise location that the first Capitol Barricade breach will occur 53 minutes later. You can see the metal bike rack fencing separating the street from the sidewalks in front of the capitol building. These area closed signs were posted in compliance with a restriction that went into effect September 7, 2020 due to the construction of the inauguration stage. At 12:0:4 PM, a group of demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, are seen walking west on Constitution Avenue toward First Street while being flanked by police officers from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna win it. Flanked by the DCPD. 60 3 pages.
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the Capitol. For context, let's hear the president's full remarks during this portion of his speech.
Speaker 2: Now it is up to congress
Speaker 1: to
Speaker 2: confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down we're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the capital and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes following these remarks, the group of proud boys and demonstrators seen previously being flanked by the DCMPD have stopped for lunch at a row of food trucks in front of the US Department of Labor on Constitution Avenue. Eddie Block, seen here in a scooter, tells a live streamer the immediate plans of the group.
Speaker 1: Where, where are we headed? We're heading back
Speaker 3: to the route.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Was there was there nothing going on at the, Capitol? Tomorrow. We're over here. Not really.
Not really. We're just kinda marching around letting people know we're here. Okay. Good time. Yeah.
Alright.
Speaker 0: 6 minutes after this interaction, at 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report a very large group heading to the Capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at approximately Seventh Street.
Speaker 4: Cruiser 50. It does look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: At the same time, police body cam records police intervening between Trump supporters and a counter protester. The police encourage the crowd to keep marching toward the capitol.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys. Let's keep the march going. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. During this time, a man named Ray Epps was filmed on the streets directing the crowd to the capitol building.
Speaker 1: As soon as president Trump is finished speaking, we are going to the capitol in that direction. That's where our true problems are. President Trump is done speaking. We are going to the Capitol. That's where our problem we are going to the Capitol.
Where our problems are. It's that direction.
Speaker 0: He was filmed the night prior, urging the crowd to go inside the Capitol.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it out there. I'm probably gonna go to jail for it. Okay? Tomorrow, we need to go into the capitol. Into the capitol.
Peacefully.
Speaker 0: The crowd surrounding him instantly calls him out as a fed. At 12:35 PM, Mike Pence's motorcade is seen heading to the capitol, turning left on Constitution Avenue from Louisiana Avenue.
Speaker 1: Call go stop. Where am I? Stay back. Stay back, please. Alright.
Let's stop. Stay back.
Speaker 0: A minute later, at 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol. The vice president's motor cave has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM Eastern. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Mike Wagner.
Speaker 0: At this exact moment, president Trump is mentioning Mike Pence's upcoming certification at his speech on the Ellipse over a mile away.
Speaker 2: But now they see all this stuff. It's all come to life. Doesn't happen that fast. And they wanna recertify their votes. They wanna recertify.
But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: A minute later at 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the capitol.
Speaker 3: Are you aware of the US Capitol Police directive initiated by then sergeant at arms Paul Irving to the architect of the Capitol sent on January 5th to move approximately 500 bike racks serving as security barricades away from First Street Northeast and Constitution Avenue to the east front?
Speaker 5: No, sir. I'm not aware of that. We have not, delved into that.
Speaker 3: This week, we've uncovered emails from the architect of the capitol where it's clear that this was directed by the house sergeant at arms against legitimate security concerns from the AOC where the AOC, rep Blanton, called it illogical. This is yet another example of the dysfunction of the security decision making process of the Capitol Police Board.
Speaker 0: Back outside where the crowd has gathered at Peace Circle, there are 2 sets of metal barricades here behind which only 5 Capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capitol, while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates. Ryan Samsel, who we saw earlier in white hoodie and red baseball cap, approaches the police line. This would become the first major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police.
We will show this crucial interaction in its entirety and use multiple angles to see what happens at this all important flash point. Ray Epps, who we just saw calling for demonstrators to enter the capital, can be seen approaching the front of the barricades and speaking to Ryan Samsel. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line. After the gate is forcefully pushed forward, US Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards is knocked to the ground. Ryan Samsel immediately runs to her aid to help her get back on her feet.
The first violent skirmish of the day between demonstrators and police had begun.
Speaker 1: President
Speaker 0: Trump remains speaking on the Ellipse.
Speaker 2: In Clark County, Nevada, the accuracy settings on signature verification machines were purposely lowered before they were used to count over 130,000 ballots. If you signed your name as Santa Claus, it would go through.
Speaker 0: Just to the south at the First Street Southwest in Maryland Avenue Circle, demonstrators knocked down a second gate. Crowds are now advancing on the west front of the capitol from two locations. With multiple lightly manned police barricades down, the enlivened crowd makes their way quickly to the next barrier, the metal gates in front of the west plaza of the capital. Samsel can be seen tapping the shoulder of officer Edwards and saying something to her. Looking over the west side of the capitol from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza.
From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. At 12:58 PM, the lightweight fencing on the west lawn is pulled down completely by just a few people. It is on this fence that signs with the words area closed are affixed. Thousands of people who will walk up to the capitol after 1 PM will never see these signs. USA.
USA. USA.
Speaker 1: USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.
USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.
USA. USA.
Speaker 0: Zooming in closer to the northwest corner of the plaza, we once again see Ray Epps at the head of the crowd in front of the next set of police barricades. So far, we've seen him the previous day calling for the crowd to enter the capital. We saw him that morning, directing people to the capital. We saw him at the first gate breach, and now here he is at the second major gate breach. And it won't be the last we see of him.
Directly in front of him is where the crowd breaches the metal gates and enters onto the west plaza of the capital. At 12:59 PM, a man on the northwest sidewalk collapses.
Speaker 1: Can you please have someone respond to my location? The bottom of the front with an individual that's down here, unconscious and not briefed.
Speaker 0: The man's name is Benjamin Phillips. He is a computer programmer from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who traveled to DC to support president Trump. A crowd of people, including police officers, form around him to assist with life saving measures. While Benjamin Phillips fights for his life outside, inside the capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes. President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that has already amassed at the capitol.
Speaker 2: Clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from president Trump to former vice president Biden.
Speaker 6: Madam speaker, members of congress, pursuant to the constitution and the laws of the United States, the senate and house of representatives are meeting in joint session. Verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors in several states, president and vice president of the United States.
Speaker 0: Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 1: Unit 6, I need less lethal teams that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position.
Speaker 4: They're not compliant, climbing, stapling. Let me know when
Speaker 1: the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 1: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer, pushing, throwing projectile. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less lethal munitions. I need the left and legal team positioned above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Launch.
Launch. Launch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek.
Speaker 1: You're shooting us. Oh, we don't. We need medical something. Are wrong. Wrong.
Wrong. Wrong.
Speaker 0: Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level.
Speaker 1: I was at the front line trying to to keep the peace between the hatred trying to to keep the peace between the Patriots and the people that were hired by the government. And, I I caught a shot to the face, and then, that's about it.
Speaker 0: Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 4: Chris, I got the I need more the best and legal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, not compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give possible warnings about, chemical munitions being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system, as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. Just feet away, Benjamin Phillips fights for his life. He has been down on the ground and not breathing for 13 minutes.
Speaker 1: 1:30. Where's the ambulance for this guy on the lower west?
Speaker 0: President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the capitol in real time.
Speaker 2: So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and god bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Ballot from Arizona.
Speaker 6: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 2: Yes. It is.
Speaker 0: As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back where we can see simultaneous angles, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, The last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States. Gosar and Cruz are having their objections to the electoral vote of Arizona read on the house floor.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 1: Hey. We need more ammunition. Hey. We need blaster. What do we got?
I'm panicking it. We gotta get something, man. Hold on. We got the back.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thau crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD.
Speaker 1: 2 ECDs at 1.
Speaker 0: He then witnesses what he calls an APO or an assault on a police officer.
Speaker 1: APO. No.
Speaker 0: With 30 officers between him and the crowd, it's unclear what assault he thought he saw in that moment. A few 100 feet away, back on the northwest sidewalk, Benjamin Phillips has been loaded onto a makeshift stretcher and is being carried north to a waiting ambulance.
Speaker 1: Hello, sir. They're hanging the patient up to the ambulance right now. They are refusing to come down.
Speaker 0: Tragically, Phillips would be pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Benjamin Phillips leaves behind 2 teenage children. Back inside the capitol building at 1:17 PM, vice president Mike Pence and senators return to the senate chamber to debate the electoral vote challenge put forth by representative Paul Gosar. At 1:17 PM, a second wave of DC Metropolitan Police officers show up on the east side of the capital. They are the first to bring in explosive ammunition rounds that they will soon distribute to officers on the west plaza.
Officer Tara Tindall is crouched on the ground readying CS gas
Speaker 1: routes.
Speaker 0: After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd. Commander, we need that.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Just shoot it. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop.
Speaker 0: Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop. At 1:21 PM, the explosive munitions that arrived 4 minutes earlier have made their way to officers on the west plaza. The first one fired into the crowd can be seen on the lower right of your screen.
No. At 1:24 PM, on scene commander officer Robert Glover gives the first audible authorization to deploy explosives into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Deploy. They fall. They fall. Deploy.
Speaker 0: The demonstrators at the west plaza of the capital will be hit by an unrelenting barrage of grenades, incendiaries, rubber bullets, and gas for the next hour.
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. Fire. We got another individual down. People are going to see people on the DC part of the process.
It's all here to take that.
Speaker 0: At 1:28 PM, a man has collapsed on the west plaza and is attended to by people in the crowd.
Speaker 1: They can't get anybody in here, and the cops are throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
Speaker 0: He is unresponsive for several minutes. Fearing the risk of trampling, they carry him to a different location where they continue to try to resuscitate him.
Speaker 1: He's been he's having a heart attack. He's been on the ground for 6 minutes. They carried him. Him. They've been doing CPR.
I think that man probably died.
Speaker 0: I hope they saved his life. Kevin Greeson leaves behind a wife and 5 children. Around 1:30 PM, on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour. Just inside the capitol, representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat from California, is responding to the challenge of the electoral count.
Speaker 7: The votes are simply to be counted as certified and transmitted by the states.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just going to make things worse.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna make it worse. Hey, stop. Hold. Hold fire. Hold fire.
Hold fire. Hold fire. Hey. Hold fire. Hold fire.
Get the shit. Get the fuck. Hold fire.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out with smoke. I got the burner by the way.
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 1: They come down for it? Hey. Can they throw it back? They did. Okay.
Speaker 0: The smoke grenade is tossed back behind the police line by someone in the crowd. Eric.
Speaker 1: Eric, do we have any scat rounds?
Speaker 0: Officer Thao goes back for more rounds. This time, it's a CS gas canister.
Speaker 1: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: A triple chaser consists of 3 separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart, allowing increased area coverage. After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thau appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier.
Speaker 1: I got a triple chaser on that. Yes. I know. But this is a triple chaser. I know.
But just splint it. I mean, I got people.
Speaker 0: Another captain tells officer Thau to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Take your step back. Take your step back.
Speaker 0: At around this same time, Ray Epps is once again caught from multiple cameras being at the front line of the demonstrators near police barricades. No other person has been seen at this many flash points this many times. He walks freely up and down the police barricades multiple times, communicating with other demonstrators in a similar fashion to when we saw him whisper in Ryan Samsel's ear earlier before the first breach. Around 1:40 PM, Ray Epps is one of the members of the crowd who helps lift up a large Trump sign and push it into the line of police officers on the west plaza of the capitol. At 1:41 PM, body cam footage from officer Anthony Alioto records a discussion about the dangers of using CS gas in their situation.
The officer petitions not to have Robert Glover, the on scene commander, authorize use of CS gas in the area.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is do not let Glover authorize CS. I don't know. I don't know. I don't just I have a problem for all.
Speaker 0: 8 minutes later, at 1:49 PM, a riot is officially declared at the US Capitol.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get compliance, but this is now effectively a riot.
Speaker 8: 1:49 hours declaring it a riot.
Speaker 0: The fears of officer Alioto are soon realized when at 1:50 PM, officers use CS gas on the northwest side of the plaza, and effectively gas themselves with aid from the wind. You can see multiple officers struggling from the effects of the CS gas.
Speaker 1: Tina, be careful. It's blowing right back. I know. Yeah. It's in my it's in my eye.
You want it? Here. Don't rub it. You know that. No.
No. No. You're breaking.
Speaker 0: Over on the east side of the capitol, the gates have successfully held the crowd back for over an hour from when the west side was first breached. At 1:59 PM, that all changes. The demonstrators overpower the police and begin to make their way toward the East Steps.
Speaker 1: Police are squabbling with protesters. Oh, there we go. And they just reached the castle again.
Speaker 0: Back on the northwest side of the capital, a man named Derek Vargo is ascending to the west terrace on the outside railing of the stairway. He is sprayed in the eyes with an inflammatory agent. Vargo reacts by heading back down the way he came when he is shoved off the wall by officer Bryant Williams, leading to a 25 foot drop. Vargo is carried away on a makeshift stretcher by officers and bystanders. Vargo suffered a fractured ankle and extensive mid foot injuries that would require surgeries to repair.
He lives with constant foot pain, pain in the middle of his spine, and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder that causes him flashbacks and nightmares of being pushed off the railing. At 2:0:3 PM, the first dispersal order is heard coming from a mobile LRAD or long range acoustic device. DC law requires police to give 3 separate warning with the LRAD system and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or munitions to clear a protest crowd. At 2:0:6 PM, police retreat up the east steps of the capitol. Demonstrators soon follow and ascend the steps.
We hear the LRAD again at 2:0:7 PM. They are to comply with this order, and they subject you to a ref. It's unlikely that demonstrators heard either of these warnings given the situation on the plaza, which calls into question the earlier stated DC law that requires these announcements to be clearly audible and to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse. Back on the east side of the capitol at 2:0:9 PM, Hunter Emke is seen kicking in and punching multiple windows. He is quickly tackled and detained by police.
At 2:10 PM, demonstrators reach the west terrace and push through police barricades. They will quickly move to what will become the first points of entry to the interior of the capital. A man throws a 2 by 4 through a glass pane, the first such broken window on the west side of the capitol. Shortly thereafter, Dominic Pizzola pushes the window in using a police riot shield. Protesters will soon enter the building through these breach points.
At 2:12, Ray Epps sends a text message to his nephew telling him that he orchestrated the protest at the Capitol and that he helped get people there. The video evidence we have seen thus far seems to back up his claim.
Speaker 1: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd. This crowd management round contains approximately 18 rubber balls.
Speaker 1: Hey, I need a round. Good CF.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round, a round that contains 3 40 millimeter rubber projectiles. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:16 PM, the parliamentarian doors are open from the inside, providing another access point for demonstrators to enter the building. Down on the west plaza, officer Thao refers to police activity as, quote, shooting zombies.
Speaker 1: Zombies. Alright. We're completely around.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, after a few minutes of confusion inside the room, the house calls a recess during its debate over an objection to the electoral votes from Arizona.
Speaker 9: Without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12 b of rule 1.
Speaker 0: At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers, where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people. You guys.
Speaker 1: We have nothing to help. We're gonna win that off. Yeah. I know. Right.
We're gonna win that off for them. We'll get them away. A lot of pain supplies when you hit these people. And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting reindeer. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, John Earl Sullivan is recording as he is one of the first of the demonstrators to enter the Capitol rotunda.
Speaker 1: 20 21,
Speaker 2: y'all. This is insanity. Holy what is this? What is life?
Speaker 0: At the same time, a few blocks away, MPD officers are discussing new plans to enter the Capitol to support US Capitol Police. They're gonna burn that
Speaker 1: building now. That's fine. And we'll figure it out. Alright. They better reach out to the military right now is what they better do.
Get the national guards to do the
Speaker 9: get them down here.
Speaker 1: Do you know where, we're suiting up or going in? We are? Yes. Where? Damn.
Are you here that?
Speaker 0: Still at 2:24 PM, Mike Pence has moved from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. The senate remains in session as senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell speaks on the floor. Also, at 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth. This would be a significant tweet to the January 6th committee, for they claimed that it was the motivation for a surge into the capital complex.
Speaker 10: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rich. Yeah. Put up the scaffolding.
Speaker 0: At the urging of officer Thao, a DC MPD officer attempts to fire a CS gas canister into the crowd.
Speaker 1: We're fired up in here, man. Over there. Alright. Before this, I don't have my I got it. Go.
Just
Speaker 0: A short time later, after being gassed out, the police are forced to fall back, and they soon lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses. Back on the east side at 2:24 PM, demonstrators are able to force open doors from the inside.
These are the Columbus doors, which lead a short way to the rotunda of the Capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, an elderly woman is violently pushed by police down a set of concrete stairs 3 times, which incites the crowd around her.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Yep. We're trying to make it to, the end of the gardens. We're going in. Alright.
Down in long guns? What do you mean? Yes. Straight up. Any any munitions you have, CDU.
Speaker 0: At 2:28 PM, in an interesting exchange, a press photographer on scene at the east entrance of the capitol taps a demonstrator on his hip and shoulder to move him out of the way so he can presumably get a better shot of the action. Back out on the south side of the west plaza, a demonstrator is taken down by 6 police officers. He receives multiple punches while in a face down, prone position. At 2:30 PM, At 2:30 PM, a security camera at the crypt lobby shows demonstrators gaining access to the Capitol via overhead lift doors. At this same time, the house is called into final recess.
Speaker 9: Without objection, the house is gonna go back into recess.
Speaker 0: At 2:31 PM, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser orders a curfew from 6 PM that evening to 6 AM the following morning. At 2:33 PM, a frustrated police officer can be heard venting about being, in his words, set up.
Speaker 1: They set up the up. That's what they did. They set up they set up 64. Oh, absolutely. K.
And then they asked y'all to come in 2 hours later. They set us up. I'm a be as real as I it can be. We are going to get overrun on the steps of the capital right now. We're getting hammered.
Okay? If you guys go down there, the appliances working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1. You're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a mother
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the capitol while police officers watch them walk through the doors. Just feet away at 2:35 PM, minutes after losing the west plaza, officer Alioto throws a gas canister from the west terrace into the crowd that has a mast on the west plaza. This, along with other gas canisters sent into the crowds, gets thrown back at the officers. Most of these officers still do not have gas masks. At the same time on the west terrace, officers are repeating the same mistakes they made one level lower on the west plaza.
An errant CS gas round is again fired into their held position on the west terrace. The spreading gas will eventually effectuate a retreat back into the capital through a narrow tunnel. This mistake would prove to be incredibly significant for the events that are yet to come. The retreat into the capital through the west terrace tunnel would create the conditions for the next standoff between demonstrators and police that would take place over the following hours. Instead of showing force outside of the tunnel, the police make the questionable decision of barricading themselves behind locked double doors, giving up the tactical position, and retreating to a defensive posture.
While the police make their stand inside the West Terrace Tunnel, at 2:38 PM, Donald Trump sends out a tweet addressing the actions at the Capitol. It reads, please support our capitol police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. At 2:39 PM, Metropolitan Police Department reinforcements arrive at the capitol, entering through the east carriage door.
At the same time, police officers discussed being unprepared for what they encountered.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we are coming up for this. I wanna make sure we all had our mask. I realize how bad I they set us up to fail. Hey, Dave. There was no way we were winning that.
And you've now you got at least 4 platoons that are just gassed out. Yeah. Literally. Because us, 54 doesn't have masks. Yeah.
Oh, remember, we're supposed to be rapid response just to buy time for the hard place to use to come. They didn't come. They didn't ask for him. I'm supposed to Who cares about the street? Like, I want to rise.
Get yes. To secure the capital.
Speaker 0: At 2:42 PM, journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an air force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby guarded by 3 police officers. MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the capitol building.
Speaker 1: You're alive, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber. It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the capitol that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day.
Speaker 1: Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Here's the gun. Hey, he's got a gun.
Speaker 0: The shot heard was a single round fired by Lieutenant Michael Byrd. It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck, and she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
Speaker 5: One shot in the Capitol. Report of a shooting in the Capitol. Trying to ascertain information now.
Speaker 0: At 2:46 PM, approximately the same time as Ashley Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police officer Bird, a series of smoke and signal flares are activated at various locations around the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Flare. There's some kind of a flare in the sky there.
Speaker 0: As the smoke clears, we again spot Ray Epps leaving the area and flanked by several individuals before leaving the capitol grounds for the day. Meanwhile, demonstrators continue to enter the capitol building. The first demonstrator enters the senate chamber.
Speaker 1: We're here. President 7, we got protesters that are outside of
Speaker 5: the, senate chamber. Over the course of the next
Speaker 0: 30 minutes, the senate chamber will become a significant location of the day along with the capitol rotunda, the capitol corridors Hold
Speaker 1: on. Hold on. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop.
Don't stop.
Speaker 0: And the West Terrace Tunnel. Prior to this point in the day, many demonstrators were free to roam the hallways and chambers of the building, meeting little resistance from Capitol Police.
Speaker 1: The police here are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our first amendment allows. Gather for Americans under the condition that they will come and gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
Speaker 0: Capitol police officer Robichaux asks a small group of demonstrators to remain peaceful.
Speaker 1: Show us. No attacking, no assault, remain calm. We're not going to resolve, nothing are going to be heard. Everybody, this must be peaceful. This has to be peaceful.
We have the right to peacefully assemble.
Speaker 0: Robichaud then proceeds to escort at least one demonstrator, Jacob Chanceley, throughout various locations in the capital. At 2:46 PM, additional demonstrators continue to enter the senate chamber. Security footage shows no Capitol Police presence in the senate chamber at this time. At this point in the day, many of the demonstrators on the outside have no idea the Capitol has even been breached. Let's go back to the multi view to see what's going on around the Capitol grounds.
On the southeast side, a group of MPD officers arrived to assist capitol police with clearing out the inside of the capitol.
Speaker 5: 1.2 ground. We're sending MPD through the south door of the capitol. There's about 25 units in hard gear.
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza, an enormous American flag has been draped over the scaffolding. On the east side of the capitol, demonstrators have overtaken the stairs and continue to gather on the lawn. Back in the rotunda at 2:48 PM, we see demonstrators peacefully roaming around and taking photographs. The only law enforcement officers visible are standing in the doorway. As demonstrators continue to roam the hallways, one officer has a concerning realization.
Speaker 1: They make it up here. They can go right to the center floor. They just don't realize it.
Speaker 0: Back at the West Terrace tunnel, a demonstrator activates a fire extinguisher into the tunnel
Speaker 1: We need redicious security steps. Wanna push forward? You wanna push forward? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Go. Right now. No.
Speaker 1: No. Wait. Because we gotta get numbers. Yep. I'm seeing stars right now.
Speaker 0: Inside the senate chamber, demonstrators are rummaging through desks looking for intel.
Speaker 1: Objection to the Arizona. Objection. Who's gonna sell us out all along? Really? Look.
Objection to counter the electoral votes of the state of Arizona. Wait. No. That's No. No.
That's Okay. Alright. Alright. We're driving. I'm just We're doing this.
We're doing this.
Speaker 0: The standoff back at the West Terrace Tunnel continues with
Speaker 1: Get it put it over there. We're gonna group it this way, then you lock your door and close this off. Get your arms through these shields. You know how to put your arms get because we have a high platoon guy here. You.
Show them how to lock the shields together and hold the shields.
Speaker 0: At 2:55 PM, law enforcement begins to move demonstrators out of the capitol from various locations.
Speaker 1: We are American. I pray for every one of you. For your service. Thanks. You
Speaker 2: need to give up communism is what you need to do, sir. You need to give up communism to protect these people. We're patriots.
Speaker 1: How much it cost for you to betray your duty and your people, sir?
Speaker 0: But they continue to struggle to control the rotunda and West Plaza tunnel.
Speaker 1: We're I I don't stray anymore. Let's go. Who's getting out for? We're in patients. We're in there.
Go in there. She's open.
Speaker 0: Richard Barnett, the demonstrator who posed for this photo speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, attempts to persuade an officer
Speaker 1: to let him back in to retrieve his flag.
Speaker 0: 4 18, Frank, sir, informational. I have
Speaker 1: a group of
Speaker 5: about 20 to 30 officers that are cordoned off on the south side of the front of the stairs. We're just gonna hold the line over here so we get some kind of control on this crowd. There's no enforcement we can take at this time.
Speaker 1: Hey. Good day, man. Glad to see you guys. You guys are fucking patriots. Look at this guy.
He's got me covered good. Thank you. Alright. Jacob Chansley takes a seat at the senate dais.
Speaker 0: He decides to leave a note for vice president Pence.
Speaker 1: And now now that you've done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please? Yeah. There's
Speaker 2: 4,000,000 people coming
Speaker 1: in, so Thank you, heavenly father, for raising us with this opportunity. Thank God. Thanks, heavenly father. Amen. Sir, I
Speaker 5: have 75 people inside the senate chambers just for information. They are going through desks
Speaker 4: 105. I'm currently a domain George of the senate chambers.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Thank you.
Thank you, officers. God bless you, pastor. Thank you for your patience. We really appreciate your support. That
Speaker 0: Freedom. Back at the scuffle at the West Terrace tunnel, the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Leading up the tunnel are a series of steps that demonstrators are having trouble navigating. It is a very tense and dangerous situation in this area. For over an hour, the police have been inside the building behind the inner doors while demonstrators have occupied the tunnel.
At 3:13 PM,
Speaker 1: president Trump sends out another tweet.
Speaker 0: He writes, I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence. Remember, we are the party of law and order. Respect the law and our great men and women in blue. Thank you.
Speaker 1: 405 John is advising they need additional assets.
Speaker 0: At 3:19 PM, the police successfully expel the demonstrators from the tunnel. During the skirmish, a US Capitol police officer is dragged into the crowd of demonstrators. He is later returned to the police line and heads back to safety inside the tunnel. The demonstrators manage to hold their ground and begin to push the police back into the tunnel. This sets the stage for the final tragic conflict.
Demonstrators and police are engaged in physical altercations. Sprayed chemical agents are lingering in the narrow hallway.
Speaker 2: I know your pain. I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.
Speaker 0: At 4:17 PM, president Trump posts a 1 minute video to his Twitter account, urging demonstrators to stay peaceful and go home.
Speaker 2: We have to have peace. We have to have law and order
Speaker 0: Twitter quickly attached a warning label on the video which read, this claim of election fraud is disputed, and this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence. This limited the reach of the message. Minutes later, Twitter would remove the entire video message from its platform.
Speaker 2: I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
Speaker 0: As the demonstrators are pushed back by police, they fall on top of each other. Some are pressed against the ground, unable to move. A woman named Roseanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, finds herself pinned under the deluge of bodies. The situation is critical.
Speaker 1: Need a lock. No. What's that? Collapse inside that that corridor from an asphyxiation. She couldn't breathe.
Brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her. I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes and even I cut part of her jeans away so that I could try to fill her femoral pulse, and I couldn't fill a femoral force at all. By the time that they decided to take the person up and give them to the police officer, she had blue lips and blood was coming out of her nose.
Speaker 4: Ma'am, where does DC fire need to go for that CPR that's gone off?
Speaker 1: Didn't seem hopeful at all. I don't I don't think that person will be revived.
Speaker 0: Officers transport Boylan inside the tunnel and begin CPR.
Speaker 8: Could you please send the ambulance that
Speaker 11: is coming for the code down at Lower West Terrace to the house door for entry?
Speaker 1: There's a couple. I don't know. We're guessing. Yeah. She got I think she got stuck under there.
She fell down and That's rambled? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Boylan is transported inside for one last revival attempt.
Speaker 1: Is that why Lawrence was having a protest? Is that why Lawrence was having a protest? Protest. CDU 70. They're destroying the media equipment over here to send an egg.
Ag. Got me. Protesters are destroying media equipment at the Senate Ag.
Speaker 0: At 5 PM, as the citywide 6 PM curfew looms, police are making progress securing the capitol and a steady stream of demonstrators leave the capitol grounds. At 5:10 PM, police use tear gas to drive the remaining demonstrators from the capitol's upper levels. Over the PA system, an announcement is made that all individuals are required to leave Capitol Hill or be subject to arrest. At 5:40 PM, national guard troops begin to arrive at the capitol to secure the premises. One minute after the curfew goes into effect, Donald Trump sends out a final message to his supporters that day.
At 8 PM, the capitol is declared secure.
Speaker 6: Today was a dark day in the history of the United States capital.
Speaker 0: Shortly after at 8:0:6 PM, the senate resumes debate over the certification of Arizona's vote in the senate chamber. The house would reconvene about an hour later. The election results will be certified. And 14 days later, Joe Biden will walk down the same tunnel and stairs where the police and demonstrators fought for hours and where Roseanne Boylan took her last breath to be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. January 6, 2021, a day of hope and patriotism that turned into a day of chaos and tragedy.
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President Trump announces that after his speech, the crowd will march to the Capitol to demand Congress count only lawful electors. At 12:30 PM, a large group heads toward the Capitol. By 12:45 PM, demonstrators breach barricades, leading to the first significant confrontation with Capitol police. As Vice President Pence convenes the joint session inside, Trump continues speaking outside. Tensions escalate, and police deploy less lethal munitions against the crowd. By 1:30 PM, police struggle to maintain control, and a surge occurs after Trump tweets at 2:24 PM, criticizing Pence. Misuse of crowd control munitions contributes to the chaos, leading to a collapse of police lines and demonstrators entering the Capitol.
Demonstrators are seen entering the Capitol as police struggle to regain control.
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Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down we're gonna walk down to the capital. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: At 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report, a very large group heading to the capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 2: Those are
Speaker 3: 50. Those look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading
Speaker 0: east. President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. At 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol. Vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM EST.
As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the capitol.
Speaker 1: Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: At 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the Capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the capitol. Back outside where the crowd has gathered at Peace Circle, there are 2 sets of metal barricades here behind which only 5 capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capitol while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates.
This would become the first major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line. Looking over the west side of the capitol from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza. From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. Inside the Capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes.
President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the Capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I need less lethal teams that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, sapling. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer pushing, going for textiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need to let the lethal team position above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Launch. Launch.
Launch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek. Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level. Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 3: I need more of the assessor legal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, non compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give multiple warnings about, typical munitions being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although Chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the
Speaker 1: capitol in real time. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all for being here.
This is incredible. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Dallas from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 0: It is. As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back where we can see simultaneous angles, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 2: Hey, captain. Hey. We need blaster this. What do we got? I can't get We gotta get something, man.
Come on. We got it back.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thao crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd. The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time. 1:17 PM.
A second wave of DC Metropolitan Police officers show up on the east side of the capitol. They are the first to bring in explosive ammunition rounds that they will soon distribute to officers on west plaza. Officer Tara Tindall is crouched on the ground readying CS gas rounds. Commander officer Robert Glover gives the first audible authorization to deploy explosives into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Standby. Standby. Standby. Deploy.
Speaker 0: Around 1:30 PM on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour.
Speaker 2: Stay modified. Stay modified.
Speaker 3: Stay on the floor. 33 k at Bri Street.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just gonna make things worse.
Speaker 2: This is gonna make it worse. And it's not. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 2: I'm coming out with smoke. I got the burner no matter what I want.
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 2: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier. Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Alright. I need a round. Good CF.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 2: And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting rain here. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution.
Speaker 4: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich. Yeah.
Speaker 0: At the urging of officer Thao, a DC MPD officer attempts to fire a CS gas canister into the crowd. A short time later, after being gassed out, the police are forced to fall back and they soon lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses.
Speaker 2: We got tear gas when we were in the middle of a prayer. We were kneeling down a break. If they'd never thrown the concussion grenades, if they'd never used a pepper spray, this wouldn't happen. It was a peaceful protest. I was standing within 15 feet of the line of officers.
They started firing at us before anybody did anything to them. We were not rushing them. There was no advance on them. They just started throwing concussion grenades and pepper spray.
Speaker 0: I set up up. That's what
Speaker 2: they did. They set up they set up 64. Absolutely. And then they asked that to come in 2 hours later. They set us up.
They need everybody right
Speaker 3: away. No.
Speaker 2: By the way, they set up a. I'm a bitch. Realize how it could be. We are going to get over the road on the steps of capital right now. We're taking.
Okay? If you guys go down there, the tank appliances working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1. You're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the capital while police officers watch them walk through the doors.
Speaker 2: At least 3 mortally wounded, if not 3 dead today. 2 older men by the ambulance and this girl shoving in. No. Excuse me. Hello?
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BREAKING: NEW JAN 6 FOOTAGE RELEASED FROM THE PRODUCERS OF J6: A TRUE TIMELINE! FOOTAGE SHOWS THE FIRST MOMENTS OF J6 IN PRECISE DETAIL TIMESTAMPED MINUTE BY MINUTE: FROM THE TRUMP ELLIPSE SPEECH TO CROWDS ROAMING THE HALLS OF THE CAPITOL WITH ALL NEW MUST SEE 2025 J6 FOOTAGE!
Video Transcript AI Summary
President Trump, during his speech, announces that the crowd will march to the Capitol to demand Congress count only lawful electors. As the crowd heads east, Vice President Mike Pence arrives at the Capitol for the electoral vote certification. A large group gathers at the Capitol, breaching barricades and clashing with police. Tensions rise as police deploy less lethal munitions against the crowd, which includes warnings that are not captured on video. As Trump finishes his speech, chaos ensues with police struggling to maintain control. A surge in the crowd follows a tweet from Trump criticizing Pence, leading to further confrontations. Misuse of crowd control munitions by police contributes to the situation escalating, resulting in demonstrators entering the Capitol as police lines collapse.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down we're gonna walk down to the capital. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: At 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report, a very large group heading to the capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 2: Those are
Speaker 3: 50. Those look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. At 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol. Vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM EST. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the capitol.
Speaker 1: Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: At 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the Capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the capitol. Back outside where the crowd has gathered at Peace Circle, there are 2 sets of metal barricades here behind which only 5 capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capitol while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates.
This would become the first major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line. Looking over the west side of the capitol from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza. From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. Inside the Capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes.
President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the Capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I need less lethal teams that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, sapling. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer pushing, going for textiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need to let the lethal team position above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Bunch. Bunch.
Bunch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek. Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level. Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 3: I need more of the assessor legal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, non compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give multiple warnings about, typical munitions being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although Chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the
Speaker 1: capitol in real time. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all for being here.
This is incredible. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Dallas from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 0: It is. As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back where we can see simultaneous angles, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 2: Hey, captain. Hey. We need blaster this. What do we got? I can't get We gotta get something, man.
Come on. We got it back.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thao crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd. The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time. 1:17 PM.
A second wave of DC Metropolitan Police officers show up on the east side of the capitol. They are the first to bring in explosive ammunition rounds that they will soon distribute to officers on west plaza. Officer Tara Tindall is crouched on the ground readying CS gas rounds. Commander officer Robert Glover gives the first audible authorization to deploy explosives into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Standby. Standby. Standby. Deploy.
Speaker 0: Around 1:30 PM on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour.
Speaker 2: Stay modified. Stay modified.
Speaker 3: Stay on the floor. 33 k at Bri Street.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just gonna make things worse.
Speaker 2: This is gonna make it worse. And it's not. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 2: I'm coming out with smoke. I got the burner no matter what I want.
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 2: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier. Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Alright. I need a round. Good CF.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 2: And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting rain here. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution.
Speaker 4: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich. Yeah.
Speaker 0: At the urging of officer Thao, a DC MPD officer attempts to fire a CS gas canister into the crowd. A short time later, after being gassed out, the police are forced to fall back and they soon lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses.
Speaker 2: We got tear gas when we were in the middle of a prayer. We were kneeling down a break. If they'd never thrown the concussion grenades, if they'd never used a pepper spray, this wouldn't happen. It was a peaceful protest. I was standing within 15 feet of the line of officers.
They started firing at us before anybody did anything to them. We were not rushing them. There was no advance on them. They just started throwing concussion grenades and pepper spray.
Speaker 0: I set up up. That's what
Speaker 2: they did. They set up they set up 64. Absolutely. And then they asked that to come in 2 hours later. They set us up.
They need everybody right away. No. By the way, they set up a. I'm a bitch. Realize how it could be.
We are going to get over the road on the steps of capital right now. We're taking. Okay? If you guys go down there, the tank appliances working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1.
You're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the capital while police officers watch them walk through the doors.
Speaker 2: At least 3 mortally wounded, if not 3 dead today. 2 older men by the ambulance and this girl shoving in. No. Excuse me. Hello?
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@charliekirk11 NEW J6 TIMELINE FOOTAGE RELEASED:
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A new video detailing the events of January 6 has been released, showcasing the timeline from Trump's speech to the crowd's movement in the Capitol. One participant noted that Ray Epps appeared early in the footage but was not mentioned until later. In response, the original poster encouraged viewers to watch the full film, explaining that the clip shared was only a brief excerpt with additional footage included.
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BREAKING: NEW JAN 6 FOOTAGE RELEASED FROM THE PRODUCERS OF J6: A TRUE TIMELINE! FOOTAGE SHOWS THE FIRST MOMENTS OF J6 IN PRECISE DETAIL TIMESTAMPED MINUTE BY MINUTE: FROM THE TRUMP ELLIPSE SPEECH TO CROWDS ROAMING THE HALLS OF THE CAPITOL WITH ALL NEW MUST SEE 2025 J6 FOOTAGE!
Video Transcript AI Summary
President Trump, during his speech, announces a march to the Capitol to demand Congress count only lawful electors. As the crowd heads to the Capitol, Vice President Mike Pence arrives for the electoral vote certification. A large group gathers at the Capitol, breaching barricades and clashing with police. Tensions escalate as police deploy less lethal munitions, but warnings about their use are not clearly communicated. As Trump finishes his speech, violence erupts, and police struggle to maintain control. A tweet from Trump at 2:24 PM coincides with a surge in the crowd, leading to further chaos. Misuse of gas and munitions by police contributes to the breakdown of their line, allowing demonstrators to enter the Capitol.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: 15 minutes into his remarks, president Trump mentions for the first time that after his speech, the crowd will be walking to the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down we're gonna walk down to the capital. We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Speaker 0: At 12:30 PM, the US Capitol Police report, a very large group heading to the capitol from eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 2: Those are
Speaker 3: 50. Those look like we're gonna have an ad hoc march stepping off here. There's a crowd surge heading east.
Speaker 0: President Trump won't be finished speaking at the Ellipse for another 40 minutes. At 12:36, vice president Mike Pence arrives at the US Capitol. Vice president's motorcade has just arrived at the Capitol in advance of the joint session. The certification is to begin in 24 minutes at 1 PM EST. As Mike Pence arrives, a crowd is already assembled at the barricades in front of the east plaza of the capitol.
Speaker 1: Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
Speaker 0: At 12:45 PM, a DC police camera captures what looks like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the Capitol. Video footage captured moments later shows demonstrators gathering at Peace Circle where Pennsylvania Avenue terminates as a street and turns into Pennsylvania Walkway, a path that leads directly to the west side of the capitol. Back outside where the crowd has gathered at Peace Circle, there are 2 sets of metal barricades here behind which only 5 capitol police officers can be seen guarding this entrance while every member of congress convenes in the building behind them. Just south of this path, a man in a black ski mask removes a barrier and waves the crowd onto the west lawn of the capitol while members in the crowd shout at him. With this view, you can see the moment that the first set of bike racks come down and the crowd begins to quickly advance on the second set of gates.
This would become the first major breach of the capitol grounds and skirmish with capitol police. Moments later, the barricade is pushed directly into the police line. Looking over the west side of the capitol from a security camera on the exterior dome, we can see how quickly the crowd is able to fill the area in front of the west plaza. From this point forward, those in the crowd entering onto Capitol grounds may have seen no indications or warnings that they were in an area that was previously guarded by police and secured by barriers. Inside the Capitol, vice president Mike Pence is entering the house chamber to convene the joint session to certify the electoral votes.
President Donald Trump is still speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse, unaware of the crowd that is already amassed at the Capitol. Back outside on the west plaza, United States Capitol Police Deputy Chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to get into position.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I need less lethal teams that could come up from the upper west stairs and take an elevated position. They're not compliant, climbing, sapling. Let me know when the less lethal teams are in place.
Speaker 0: 1 minute later, the less lethal team moves into place. At 1:0:6 PM, deputy chief Waldo orders the less lethal team to launch.
Speaker 3: Unit 6, I got a crowd fighting with officer pushing, going for textiles. I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need to let the lethal team position above me to identify the agitator to start deploying. Bunch. Bunch.
Bunch.
Speaker 0: US Capitol Police inspector Lloyd is seen signaling officers above on the terrace to open fire on the crowd. Joshua Matthew Black, a 46 year old man from Alabama, is shot with a round that tears open and lodges in his cheek. Safety procedures for using these rounds state not to fire at someone at eye level. Deputy chief Waldo orders a second deployment of munitions.
Speaker 3: I need more of the assessor legal teams over here. The indirect firing is not working. They are still, non compliant. We've continued to give, I've continued to give multiple warnings about, typical munitions being released. They are not dispersing.
Speaker 0: Although Chief Waldo has broadcast over the radio twice that he has given warnings, no video that day captures these warnings. DC law on crowd dispersal procedures states that before any munitions are used against a crowd, officers must issue at least 3 clearly audible and understandable orders to disperse using an amplification system as well as to provide participants reasonable and adequate time to disperse and a clear safe route for dispersal. President Trump is finishing his speech at the Ellipse at 1:12 PM. In a rarely seen split screen view, let's simultaneously see different events happening around the
Speaker 1: capitol in real time. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I wanna thank you all. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all for being here.
This is incredible. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Dallas from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Speaker 0: It is. As representative Paul Gosar and senator Ted Cruz make a challenge on the floor of the house, MPD officer Daniel Thau arrives at the southwest section of the plaza. His body cam shows him and nearby officers spraying demonstrators with an inflammatory agent. From a different officer's body cam, the familiar face of Ray Epps can be seen in the area that the police are trying to control. Back where we can see simultaneous angles, we can see Trump waving to the crowd after his 1 hour and 11 minute speech, the last speech he will give in front of a crowd as president of the United States.
Ray Epps is at the front of the police line speaking to officers.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 0: At 1:13 PM, officer Thao is frantically calling for more munitions.
Speaker 2: Hey, captain. Hey. We need blaster this. What do we got? I can't get We gotta get something, man.
Come on. We got it back.
Speaker 0: At 1:15 PM, officer Thao crosses the line and engages with demonstrators. As the scuffle ensues, he discharges 2 rounds from his taser, also known as an ECD. After expending all his munitions, officer Thao yells at the officers on the west terrace of the capital above them to start shooting what they have into the crowd. The less lethal team fires into the crowd for a third time. 1:17 PM.
A second wave of DC Metropolitan Police officers show up on the east side of the capitol. They are the first to bring in explosive ammunition rounds that they will soon distribute to officers on west plaza. Officer Tara Tindall is crouched on the ground readying CS gas rounds. Commander officer Robert Glover gives the first audible authorization to deploy explosives into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Standby. Standby. Standby. Deploy.
Speaker 0: Around 1:30 PM on the southwest side of the plaza, officers push the crowd back and are able to establish a police line again. The police will hold this line for about an hour.
Speaker 2: Stay modified. Stay modified.
Speaker 3: Stay on the floor. 33 k at Bri Street.
Speaker 0: At 1:32 PM, an officer laments that chucking grenades into the crowd is just gonna make things worse.
Speaker 2: This is gonna make it worse. And it's not. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Speaker 0: Moments later, the same officer seems to have changed his mind and is actively searching for munitions to discharge in the crowd.
Speaker 2: I'm coming out with smoke. I got the burner no matter what I want.
Speaker 0: A burner or hot burning smoke grenade can get extremely hot and become a fire risk.
Speaker 2: I need triple chasers.
Speaker 0: After not receiving approval to use the triple chaser, officer Thao appears to be reprimanded by another officer for his use of smoke moments earlier. Another captain tells officer Thao to hold on discharging CS gas into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Hey. Frank, you got anything else?
Speaker 0: Back on the west plaza of the capital, officer Thao receives a Stinger 40 millimeter, 60 caliber rubber balls round and rushes to fire it into the crowd.
Speaker 2: Alright. I need a round. Good CF.
Speaker 0: 30 seconds later, he's given a baton round. He again heads over to the police line to fire it into the crowd. At 2:18 PM, police body cam picks up a tense conversation among officers where one officer admits that they're hitting innocent people.
Speaker 2: And and not only that, we're taking out 1 and 10 of them are getting rain here. It's it's we're multiplying them by hitting them.
Speaker 0: At 2:24 PM, president Trump tweets, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution.
Speaker 4: Our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 PM tweet, the crowds both outside the capital and inside the capital surged.
Speaker 0: What the January 6th committee failed to mention was that it was officers misusing munitions and CS gas at that same time that led to a surge.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich. Yeah.
Speaker 0: At the urging of officer Thao, a DC MPD officer attempts to fire a CS gas canister into the crowd. A short time later, after being gassed out, the police are forced to fall back and they soon lose their position. As officers on the west plaza, unequipped with gas masks, struggle breathing, the plume of CS gas can be seen from the overhead camera on the lower right corner of your screen. It blows over the entire area of the west plaza that the police had secured for nearly an hour. Within 3 minutes of the officer CS gas misfire, the police line on the west plaza entirely collapses.
Speaker 2: We got tear gas when we were in the middle of a prayer. We were kneeling down a break. If they'd never thrown the concussion grenades, if they'd never used a pepper spray, this wouldn't happen. It was a peaceful protest. I was standing within 15 feet of the line of officers.
They started firing at us before anybody did anything to them. We were not rushing them. There was no advance on them. They just started throwing concussion grenades and pepper spray.
Speaker 0: I set up up. That's what
Speaker 2: they did. They set up they set up 64. Absolutely. And then they asked that to come in 2 hours later. They set us up.
They need everybody right away. No. By the way, they set up a. I'm a bitch. Realize how it could be.
We are going to get over the road on the steps of capital right now. We're taking. Okay? If you guys go down there, the tank appliances working very minimally. There's 10,000 to 1.
You're gonna lose the steps, and we're getting people hurt like a
Speaker 0: Demonstrators are seen entering from the west side of the capital while police officers watch them walk through the doors.
Speaker 2: At least 3 mortally wounded, if not 3 dead today. 2 older men by the ambulance and this girl shoving in. No. Excuse me. Hello?
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@InvestigateJ6 Ray Epps was early in the video at 2:38, yet no mention of him until the 7:01 minute mark..... ??
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