There were peaceful protesters who were not on the capitol steps, but were behind the fence that was erected, before the fence was broken down. They were fired on with both flash grenades and rubber bullets. Julie Kelly, from American Greatness, released the video.
The man speaking in the video is Kash Kelly, a former gang member and founder of the Streetlights Unity Movement and Foundation, a group he launched in 2020 in opposition to Black Lives Matters to help at-risk people in inner-cities, Kelly told me during a brief interview from a Washington, D.C. jail Thursday afternoon. He was an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump.
“The police started shooting at people,” Kelly told me. “There were kids in the crowd.”
The video is available at the Gateway Pundit: (Page down past the quote from Kash Kelly, look for the play button)
These were federal, AKA Capitol Police! Not state run sheriffs, there is a vast difference. Local sheriffs are often elected, unlike the Capitol police. A distinction should be maintained between the two. Granted, there are some idiots at the local level as well, but these people are likely not elected, and part of the same statist cabal that stole the election in the first place.