5 minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEC8KlTJkfM
Having watched countless hours of videos of police encounters with all kinds of people, a few things jump out at me.
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the police were cornered, and didn't seem too concerned about it. police don't let themselves get cornered. the police are more likely to corner the mob in a "police kettle"
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the police could have easily moved to a position in front of the door, and then "made space" between the door and the protesters.
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pretty much every door in America is an officially designated fire exit, and it would be highly irresponsible for police to stand by, while a mob is blocking a fire door, a bottle neck, a pinch point, where a stampede is likely to occur in the event of an emergency. if the building was occupied by VIP's, they were putting the VIPs at risk.
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i saw a lot of cameras, and only the police had guns.
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a policeman aims his gun at something and fires something. this seems to be an irresponsible, and illogical action, that doesn't accomplish anything other than to quicken the mob.
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the police stand by, as some jackass beats on the door with a flag pole?
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the police stand by, as the door gets opened, and the mob rushes in? there was a mob rush at almost every state capitol building in America, during the Occupy Wall Street protests, and it seems to me that in every instance, the police were able to handle the mob.
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why are the police even there? if their job was to protect the capitol building, or the people inside, then they did a terrible job of that.
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the police will set up a perimeter around almost anything, from a house fire, to a crime scene, and will enforce that perimeter. why aren't the police enforcing a perimeter around the capitol building? yellow tape. if you cross the yellow tape and you get clubbed
what kinds of irregularities can you spot in this video?
When I watched live, the 1st to walk into Capitol entered single file, spaced apart high-fiving, waving and shaking hands with cops. Cant find that video anywhere. Obviously scrubbed.
Yep. I remember the look on people's faces as they cautiously stepped through the open doors. Like, "wtf, is there really nobody guarding the Capitol building??"
There was at least one person standing outside waving others in. He seemed intent to get as many people inside as possible. A calm, single file line began but most ignored him.
Wish I had recorded those streams. I saw so much that day and can't remember half of it.
I also watched it all happen, live, in real time, from many cell phones in the crowd. The Portland Andy website streamed the whole thing. And there was never anything remotely resembling a violent forced breakin.