https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRCEMN-lq_o&feature=emb_logo
You can hear them bizarrely calling cops "traitors" at the 7 minute mark and chanting "I can't breathe" at the 10 minute mark.
Also video of bullhorn lady at the 11:10 - 11:20 mark. She's covering her face so as not to be identified.
Some have speculated bullhorn lady is Boebert's mom.
bullhorn lady is the woman who directed the rioters inside the capitol where to go.
Interesting, as Boebert had shown her mother around the Capitol Building (not sure when).
But most were covering their faces to avoid pepper spray from the police. You can see a few protesters keeping their backs to the police line, while obstructing the police from extending the barricades. Others have a scarf over their important breather holes, etc.
I didn't understand the I Can't Breathe chant. I suppose they wanted to signal that police were using too much force/chemical irritants and that the police were the problem.
Of course with the rioters instigating the encounter and engaging in illegal activity, it all seemed fairly confused.
Thanks for that video. I've been meaning to find more.
At that initial police line, there are only about a half dozen police and two of them are short women (one of whom got knocked to the ground at the first breach). You can see the tall officer radioing for backup. And I like the officer who comes over and just starts throwing punches.
I hadn't realized the crowd broke the large windows above the doors and got in through that way. Though usually slow one-at-a-time entry like that is fairly easy for the police to subdue and handcuff.
There was one video where people were streaming into the Capitol past 3 officers, and one kept saying "You are not allowed in here" "Nobody is allowed in here"
You almost expect Leslie Neilsen to walk over and in a serious voice tell the officer "I'll take it form here" and then proceed to say the same thing just as ineffectually as everybody just walks past.
But it serves a purpose. Everyone who walked past those officers were told that their entry was illegal. And plenty of them were filmed hearing that and still entering. One lady claims to be a journalist in completely insincere fashion.
Otherwise, you can see the utility of having a hammer with you at a protest if you may by chance want to break some windows. A small knife would be useful for cutting plastic zip ties possibly restraining your friends. A scarf or gas mask would be a good idea. There's was one policeman quoted as saying the protesters had more chemical weapons than the police did at his particular checkpoint (bear spray, mace, pepper spray, etc). Might be time where you have to show ID and leave your name, number, address to buy bear spray.
It's interesting that chemical weapons are illegal in warfare, but are allowed in crowd/riot control. I guess when you are not supposed to shoot and kill people than it is deemed okay to use temporary incapacitating chemical weapons.
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