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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Wow. The first ‘inside’ video captures the officer they chased up the stairs from another vantage point. I had read that he redirected them at the top away from the unsecured chamber, and wasn’t sure how exaggerated that was. But this shows that it really was the first thing that happened, and you can see the press member on the other side of the officer (who filmed the clip we’ve all seen).
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What a terrifying situation that would have been. It's fortunate that the people who were forcing him back didn't seem to be among those out for the blood of anyone standing in their way and that the crowd wasn't armed like a group engaged in civil war, because he would have been utterly helpless with that wave of people coming in.
The collection of videos as a whole is just madness. It's like watching an amalgam of every Trump rally ever held being unleashed inside the Capitol. The ignorant, bigoted, entitled and angry elements of American culture coming home to roost in a place where the growth of those segments has been enabled and encouraged through decades of cynical policies and rhetoric. A rabble of the worst sides of American culture, aimed at the heart of democracy by a president who is himself the embodiment of all the worst aspects of American culture.
Had the mob entered the Capitol with the intent to kill everyone in their way, it would have been a blood bath. They were collectively much more restrained and peaceful than they could have been. The US is fortunate to have made it through the 6th so lightly scathed. I hope so very much that the crazies aren't planning the next round to be more like an actual civil war.