At one point, a large crowd of rioters is blocked from moving further into the building by Capitol police.

Then at 24:40, a rioter with a bullhorn announces: "We have permission to go into this room... We can go into this room if we are calm and we commit no violence, ok?"
The Trump mob does not obey; they start to push through. For a moment, a few officers try to bar the way.

Then a rioter chastises a cop: "I would just stop, bro, dude, you're not helping... you're going to get me hurt and other people."

Then it appears police let them through.
While securing permission to move further into the Capitol, one rioter tells the Capitol police standing in the way:
"That's what I'm trying to tell you... you've got to stand down. The people out there that tried to do that, they got hurt, I saw it."
One officer pleads with the mob to calm down, telling a rioter, "The military is on the way... If I was you guys, I would leave."

The rioter scoffs. "They're not going to shoot anybody, they're not."

Shortly after that exchange, the police give them permission to go further in.
A couple hallways later, the mob is blocked at another door. This time, police shut themselves inside, and the mob debates using their crowbar to bust in the windows.

One says: "Somebody have music? Wouldn't it be fire if someone had a boombox, revolutionary music and shit?

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