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6 Jan, 12 tweets, 3 min read
For the last half hour or so I was filming people go in and out of Capitol on entrance by front steps. Police macing people inside.
South entrance to Capitol right now. Police have resorted to shooting fire extinguishers at crowd.
South entrance Capitol.
Police are making some ground in clearing the people attempting to breach south side of Capitol.

I don’t think this thing is close to done but I believe police are gaining an advantage for the first time this afternoon against the Trump supporters.
“Fuck fake news!”

Trump supporters charged at the major media cameras set up on West side of Capitol.

Journalists fled, and Trump supporters are destroying their equipment.
This is what remains of the press pen. Image
This is stalemate at Southwest corner. From where I sit it seems Capitol is more or less secure and the remaining protesters are no more than a tenth of the numbers they started with.
I meant northeast.

Feeling a little airheaded after inhaling various riot munitions. Sorry for the mistake.
I just heard another flash grenade. Unclear on direction, but this is seemingly still not over. Trying to re-orient myself
They’re beginning to clear outside
Trump supporters have effectively lost the ground they originally made by breaching barricades following Trump speech.
I’ve gotten a ride and am heading home for now. Body burning from mace etc. recharging and then likely heading back out.

Curfew now in effect. Media exempt.

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7 Jan
PHOTO THREAD: Police failed to keep Trump supporters back as they stormed the initial perimeter around the Capitol.

In spite of mace and flash grenades, protesters managed to push through and climb the wall west of the building.

Photos by me for @N2Sreports. Pm for licensing. ImageImageImageImage
Trump supporters climbed the East Capitol steps where they were confronted by police, but managed to take an officer's riot shield and push through into the building. ImageImageImageImage
An injured Trump supporter is taken out from the Capitol in a stretcher. Image
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6 Jan
I'm home, and will post my footage of the #CapitolHill riot chronologically as I go through it.

These are some of the scenes I first saw arriving at the Capitol, just as they breached the perimeter.

Fighting largely focused on the first set of steps.
One person fell off the steps (which I didn't manage to capture on video).

Trump supporters accused officers of pushing him off. He was taken away in a stretcher. His condition is unclear to me.
It was shortly after that that Trump supporters began pushing harder, to the point that police retreated up the steps.

In my opinion, this was basically the critical moment that caused everything else tonight to happen.

Police threw some tear gas back as they retreated.
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5 Jan
BREAKING video: Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was released from jail without bond.

Full 4K footage on the way.
4K video: Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio answers some questions after being released from jail.

He is banned from Washington DC other than for his legal matters before the court.

He says he was arrested at gunpoint last night.

"We're gonna keep fighting," he says.
Enrique Tarrio was picked up by a friend and said his first priority is to get a "hamburger" but that he doesn't know how he'll be getting the city tonight.
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5 Jan
Earlier today, pro-@wikileaks activists who had been protesting against the prosecution of #JulianAssange held a party outside the Department of Justice including cake and balloons to celebrate a British court's decision not to extradite.

The United States is expected to appeal.
During the party, a DOJ cop came over to ask about the demonstration, but there were no issues and the group had a permit.

The organizers attempted to get the cops to eat some of the cake, but they didn't bite (literally.)
Here is my video from the event. As always, all footage available to license.

I did film some speeches afterwards, which I didn't stream or post. Anyone looking for footage of those feel free to PM.

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5 Jan
VIDEO: Activists organized by @SmashTheFashNVA held a protest this evening outside the Alexandria, VA Holiday Inn hotel demanding they not provide rooms for attendees of Wednesday's "Stop the Steal" rally in DC.

Activist tells me hotel has discount code for rally participants.
"They're hosting the Proud Boys, so they're renting rooms to fascists, and we don't like that" said @JonathanKrallVA.

"We think that these businesses should identify these groups and refuse to rent rooms to them because fascism should be taken seriously."
"The day that Biden won, we had hundreds of thousands of people at Black Lives Matter Plaza," said an activist who asked to be ID'ed as "Bug."

"We need those numbers again. We need those people to be out now, fighting against fascism."
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4 Jan
This could be a stunt on the Proud Boys’ end, but it appears possible that PB chairman Enrique Tarrio was just arrested.
Matt Couch, a relatively prominent right-wing figure (although not a member of the Proud Boys), claims that Enrique Tarrio was arrests on arrival in DC. Image
This is the incident he was reportedly arrested for (but I’d wait for confirmation to be sure of this.)

Tarrio was present when it happened (drinking a cup of coffee) but didn’t personally burn it.

However, he leads the PB’s and took responsibility in a statement on Parler.
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