VIDEO: Capital Police waved Trump supporters into the capital

[DarkWizard12]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Those officers should lose their jobs, be blacklisted from employment in that industry again, and perhaps face jail time for aiding the insurrection. It was not their role to determine whether those people should be in the building or not.

 

[DarkWizard12]

Those officers should lose their jobs, be blacklisted from employment in that industry again, and perhaps face jail time for aiding the insurrection. It was not their role to determine whether those people should be in the building or not.

"aiding the insurrection"

If an unarmed mob of protesters, at the direction of the capital police, are fully able to start an insurrection, then our government has far worse issues.

 

[Slartibartfast]

"aiding the insurrection"

If an unarmed mob of protesters, at the direction of the capital police, are fully able to start an insurrection, then our government has far worse issues.

1. They were armed
2. They were not allowed in the capitol building that day and it was not the police's job to break that rule
3. We have major issues when a former president spends his presidency installing cronies into our military and law enforcement and tries to attempt this.

 

[DarkWizard12]

1. They were armed

Yes, with the fearsome baseball bat and bear spray.

2. They were not allowed in the capitol building that day and it was not the police's job to break that rule

People are going to follow whatever the police say. If the police tell them to GO TO THE BUILDING, then they're going to go.

The people were just there to protest, the police made sure it turned into something more.

3. We have major issues when a former president spends his presidency installing cronies into our military and law enforcement and tries to attempt this.

The military wasn't there, and the president has 0 control in hiring the DC police.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

Do you think Ashli Babbitt was murdered?

 

[Slartibartfast]

Yes, with the fearsome baseball bat and bear spray.

People are going to follow whatever the police say. If the police tell them to GO TO THE BUILDING, then they're going to go.

The people were just there to protest, the police made sure it turned into something more.

The military wasn't there, and the president has 0 control in hiring the DC police.

They were armed with guns

Then the police offers who did that need to lose their jobs, be blacklisted from future law enforcement jobs, and possibly go to jail

The military wasn't there because they ignored calls to come and calm the situation.

 

[Sand Castle]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

NEWS CAPITOL HILL POLICING POLICE PROTESTS
Aviral video does not show police allowing crowds to breach barricades during riots at the U.S. Capitol—as many have claimed on social media—the person who shot the clip has told Newsweek.

Footage captured by Marcus DiPaola, a freelance journalist working at TikTok.
Newsweek.com

 

[DarkWizard12]

NEWS CAPITOL HILL POLICING POLICE PROTESTS
Aviral video does not show police allowing crowds to breach barricades during riots at the U.S. Capitol—as many have claimed on social media—the person who shot the clip has told Newsweek.

Footage captured by Marcus DiPaola, a freelance journalist working at TikTok.
Newsweek.com

soooooo don't believe your lying eyes?

yea, okay.

 

[Peter King]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

So one officer allows them to walk towards the Capitol building and that means the police is responsible? Nobody invited them in, the doors were closed and they pushed or broke their way into the building itself, the crime all these people are accused of.

I can only imagine that the officer did not want to see people crushed against the barriers or some other innocent reason. And if not, still not an accuse for anything that happened in the Capitol or on the steps of the Capitol.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

Hmmmm? If the cops were so accommodating I wonder why the protesters beat the crap out of some of them and sent over 100 cops to the hospital? And to this date 17 cops are still out of work from injuries they received on the 6th....

 

[Sand Castle]

soooooo don't believe your lying eyes?

yea, okay.

No, I believe the witness that was actually there, not the Right-wing spin.

Reality, the Capitol Police were overwhelmed by mentally ill, mob mentality, anti America followers.

Police had two choices due to the fact that they were outnumbered and we're unable to block the lunatics.

1. Use deadly force with firepower

2. Allow these lunatics his or her life and let them pass and take the next defensive position

 

[bluesmoke]

A claim that the insurrection was nothing more than a protest instigated to insurrection level by a cop whom directed the "protesters" "into" the Capitol Building based on the slightest of evidence outweighed by a preponderance of evidence otherwise. OP fail. The more significant evidence is that this was an insurrection by Trump supporters that included organized RW groups.

 

[DarkWizard12]

No, I believe the witness that was actually there, not the Right-wing spin.

Reality, the Capitol Police were overwhelmed by mentally ill, mob mentality, anti America followers.

Police had two choices due to the fact that they were outnumbered and we're unable to block the lunatics.

1. Use deadly force with firepower

2. Allow these lunatics his or her life and let them pass and take the next defensive position

Just make sure you wave them in first so they know where to go, right?

i guess i can't argue with that logic!

 

[DarkWizard12]

A claim that the insurrection was nothing more than a protest instigated to insurrection level by a cop that directed the "protesters" "into" the Capitol Building based on the slightest of evidence outweighed by a preponderance of evidence otherwise. OP fail. The more significant evidence is that this was an insurrection by Trump supporters that included organized RW groups.

the "preponderance of evidence", of which the video is only 1 of many, is that the cops willfully lowered the barricades, encouraged the protestors, were actually warned BY the protestors that the situation was getting out of control, failed to call for backup at point of contact, and when backup was called their supervisors were not even present.

All the evidence tells us this.

if that's not trying to create an insurrection, and PUTTING THE LIVES OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS IN DANGER, then I don't know what is! Everyone was in danger here, the lawmakers and the protestors, and the DC police used their position to encourage it!

 

[Tigerace117]

the "preponderance of evidence", of which the video is only 1 of many, is that the cops willfully lowered the barricades, encouraged the protestors, were actually warned BY the protestors that the situation was getting out of control, failed to call for backup at point of contact, and when backup was called their supervisors were not even present.

All the evidence tells us this.

if that's not trying to create an insurrection, and PUTTING THE LIVES OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS IN DANGER, then I don't know what is! Everyone was in danger here, the lawmakers and the protestors, and the DC police used their position to encourage it!

The treasonous Trump cultists shouldn’t have conducted their rampage.

Period.

 

[americanwoman]

A nine second video on tik tok of one officer waving people over. Lol doesn't take much to convince those who want to be convinced of something.

 

[americanwoman]

the "preponderance of evidence", of which the video is only 1 of many, is that the cops willfully lowered the barricades, encouraged the protestors, were actually warned BY the protestors that the situation was getting out of control, failed to call for backup at point of contact, and when backup was called their supervisors were not even present.

All the evidence tells us this.

if that's not trying to create an insurrection, and PUTTING THE LIVES OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS IN DANGER, then I don't know what is! Everyone was in danger here, the lawmakers and the protestors, and the DC police used their position to encourage it!

Wow some police officers using their authority in a bad way, whodathunkit??

 

[roguenuke]

Just make sure you wave them in first so they know where to go, right?

i guess i can't argue with that logic!

Do you know exactly who that officer is waving inside? Notice how there is no indication that he is waving the crowd itself inside, but rather someone off camera. Could that be reinforcements or emergency personnel he is waving inside, rather than protestors? Why did they stop the video there?

If he is waving inside protestors, he should lose his job, but we don't actually know who is being waved inside by that officer.

 

[GDViking]

So one officer allows them to walk towards the Capitol building and that means the police is responsible? Nobody invited them in, the doors were closed and they pushed or broke their way into the building itself, the crime all these people are accused of.

I can only imagine that the officer did not want to see people crushed against the barriers or some other innocent reason. And if not, still not an accuse for anything that happened in the Capitol or on the steps of the Capitol.

He most likely was funneling them into another area...

 

[roguenuke]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

Actually there are many questions even about this little video clip, since we don't see who exactly that officer is directing inside. It could be emergency personnel or backup, or it could be more rioters. The video doesn't have enough coverage nor does it go long enough to make that determination. But if that one officer did do it, they need to be fired.

The gates were not opened by the officers. That is simply not true and you don't have footage showing it to be true. There is footage of the actual initial breach even just of those little barricades happening (on the other side of the building), and it most definitely was not the officers letting people inside.

Video: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol

A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what happened — and why.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Peter King]

He most likely was funneling them into another area...

Right, trying to make this into something nefarious is just silly, out there they were not committing too many offenses, that was later on.

 

[Callen]

he "preponderance of evidence", of which the video is only 1 of many, is that the cops willfully lowered the barricades, encouraged the protestors, were actually warned BY the protestors that the situation was getting out of control, failed to call for backup at point of contact, and when backup was called their supervisors were not even present.

WOW! I think there needs to be an independent non-congressional committee formed to get to the bottom of all of this....don't you?

 

[roguenuke]

the "preponderance of evidence", of which the video is only 1 of many, is that the cops willfully lowered the barricades, encouraged the protestors, were actually warned BY the protestors that the situation was getting out of control, failed to call for backup at point of contact, and when backup was called their supervisors were not even present.

All the evidence tells us this.

if that's not trying to create an insurrection, and PUTTING THE LIVES OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS IN DANGER, then I don't know what is! Everyone was in danger here, the lawmakers and the protestors, and the DC police used their position to encourage it!

No that is simply not true. The preponderance of evidence shows that the mob violently pushed their way inside, overwhelming the officers that were there and not prepared with proper gear or numbers, injuring some on their way inside. That video is at most an outlier to a few officers being on the side of the mob, but could in fact be something else entirely, since we don't have enough information nor see enough of the video itself to actually see what he/she is doing.

 

[JMB802]

The question is not whether the capital police directed the protest onward toward the capital, the question is, how much did they do it, and how much responsibility do they take for the actions there?

To open the gates and guide the crowd into the capital seems more than just inefficiency on the part of the police.

There are multiple explanations, hopefully, the congressional investigation will get to the bottom of it.
1. The FBI has reported infiltration of white supremacists into law enforcement and the military, some of the officers may have been complicit.
2. The officers were trying to diffuse the crowd and lead them into a less volatile area.
3. The officers were overwhelmed and unprepared and made poor decisions.