Thread by @KimZetter

PBS Newshour reporter describes protesters shattering the glass on doors to the Capitol building, you can hear the pounding on the front door of the US Capitol in the background as she speaks - no police in the area where she's reporting

"Protestors are using the staff of an American flag to try to break through these windows," reporter says. She's talking about protestors at a balcony door/window.

She now reports that protestors are inside the building. Lawmakers have been moved to a safer location.

Protestor inside the Capitol building has opened the door to let hundreds of other protestors inside. A single Capitol police officer is trying to hold them back. "The only thing helping this situation is that the door is just barely open" allowing only one protestor in at a time

"Capitol police are unable to stop them." Reporter says that protestors are now streaming into the Capitol building at will.

Reporter asks one of the protestors who has broken into the Capitol building if they don't think their actions are violent. "Was the 1776 revolution violent?" he responds.

"The security of the federal government has been breached," reporter says. What does this say to foreign adversaries that protestors can casually enter the Capitol building after breaking glass with a flagstaff without police resistance?

DC mayor has called for a curfew that will begin at 6:30 pm EST this evening and run to 6:30 am EST.

Trump (or someone ghostwriting his Twitter account) has tweeted for protestors to "stay peaceful"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346904110969315332?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Protestor has now entered the House chamber and is at the lectern.

Judy Woodruff just said someone was shot inside the Capitol. But then she backtracked and said that hasn't been confirmed yet. She was reading something out loud as it was streaming - I think she didn't mean to say it out loud.

A DC medic is the source of the info that someone was shot inside the Capitol - still not independently confirmed. There is also video of protestors inside Senate chambers rummaging through the desks of senators.

It's been confirmed that someone was shot and was wheeled out of the Capitol. Reports are saying it was a woman. Video here:

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1346910534621224965

Another image from the standoff

Here's video of when repeated shots were fired and woman was hit in neck. WARNING: video is disturbing

https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1346913549898149888

Here's a wider shot of the standoff image - unclear if this was the source of the shot that hit the female protestor in the neck. I don't have a credit for this image but will add if I find it.

Here's video from earlier showing protestors breaking breaking glass to enter Capitol building

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1346904724600188929

Video of single police officer trying to hold off protestors from entering further into the building and into the Senate chamber

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346911809274478594

Video from inside the Senate chamber before the shooting occurred. HuffPost reporter who took video subsequently tweeted that shot was fired INTO the Senate chamber from outside, not fired from inside the chamber (but that is unconfirmed at this point)

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346906856581713922

Video from inside chamber before shot was fired. HuffPost reporter who posted video says the shot was fired INTO the chamber from outside, not from inside the chamber (that is unconfirmed though)

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346906856581713922

Here's tweet from HuffPo reporter saying the shot was fired into the chamber from someone outside in the hallway (that is still unconfirmed, however)

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346905489561579532

Here's a still shot from the video of the woman right after she was shot in the hallway outside the chamber. This person with rifle is outside the chamber telling protestors to move away from the chamber door. I assume he's a police officer and not an armed protestor, but unclear

NBC reports that the woman who was shot today inside the Capitol building has died and that it was law enforcement who shot her. "A woman was shot inside the Capitol by a member of law enforcement and later died, several law enforcement officials said" nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Noose erected by protestors outside the Capitol building today

Two more tweets to clarify something. It appears previous images I tweeted of officers w/ guns inside chamber are not from shooting incident. A vid that shows the woman precisely when she was shot shows her climbing through door that opens to hallway, not to chamber. See nxt twt

You can see image of her here on the right, wearing a red, white and blue backpack as she starts to climb through the window in the door. You can see that it's not the same door that is shown in the other images taken from inside the chamber. She was shot a second after this.

This image from another vid appears to show the female protestor who was killed, as she first entered Capitol building. The woman at right holding phone in her hand is wearing a kerchief and backpack that appear to match what the woman who was killed wore.

NYPost identified woman who was killed - a married AirForce vet from CA named Ashli Babbit. Yesterday she tweeted: “Nothing will stop us…they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours…dark to light." nypost.com/2021/01/06/pro…

Local San Diego TV station where the woman lived says that Babbit was a 14-year veteran, who served four tours with the US Air Force, and "was a high level security official throughout her time in service."

And here's Babbitt's Twitter account: twitter.com/Ashli_Babbitt She retweeted Lin Wood a lot.

Missed this video yesterday, but it shows clearly the gun that shot Ashli Babbitt yesterday. Wasn't clear to me yesterday where the shot originated. Video clip is here:

https://twitter.com/thejaydenxander/status/1347056697899163648

Rep. Markwayne Mullin, (R-Oklahoma) witnessed the shooting and said it was justified. "They were trying to come through the front door, which is where I was at in the chamber, and in the back they were trying to come through the speaker's lobby, ...

and that's problematic when you're trying to defend two fronts. When they broke the glass in the back, the lieutenant that was there...he didn't have a choice at that time. The mob was going to come through the door, there was a lot of members and staff that were in danger...

"And when he [drew] his weapon, that's a decision that's very hard for anyone to make and, once you draw your weapon like that, you have to defend yourself with deadly force." Mullin said he believed the police 'showed a lot of restraint' and 'did the best they could"

"That young lady's family's lives changed and [the officer's] life also changed," Mullin said. "But what also happened is that mob...left. And his actions...may be judged in a lot of different ways moving forward, but his actions I believe saved people's lives even more."

Bellingcat has synchronized four videos of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt yesterday, showing it from different angles.

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1347253404012261377