YouTube is saying my uncut footage showing the crowd reacting and chanting (for example) “fight for Trump” during his J6 speech ahead of the insurgency was removed for not presenting a counter-view to the president.
THREAD: I managed to get on the phone just now with "boogaloo boy" Mike Dunn, who was apparently arrested last night according to a tweet on his account shortly before it went down.
For context: I've covered Mike's activism a lot and he is a subject of a documentary on the way.
Dunn told me by phone that he had been doing firearms training with a man in Maine who he realized in the process was a "Nazi" under the influence of drugs.
Dunn says their disagreements boiled over when he realized this person could be dangerous and wanted by authorities.
He describes fearing that this person would "violate the non-aggression principle against innocents" (a libertarian principle against initiating violence), taking his guns away, and driving to a police station with them to turn himself and the weapons in.
“YouTube also took down a video from independent journalist Ford Fischer, who uploaded footage from former President Donald Trump’s speech and the crowd’s reaction before rioters stormed the Capitol—a key moment in the impeachment complaint against Trump.” forbes.com/sites/rachelsa…
“The company said Fischer’s videos don’t “include countervailing views or sufficient context of the claims made in the footage” and then demonized his entire account.
YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes.”
“Fischer said his video, which showed the crowd chanting “fight for Trump” before the attack, is crucial for the public to see because Trump will stand trial in the Senate over whether he incited the riot.”
BREAKING: After me spending the last week criticizing @TeamYouTube's takedown of my raw footage from January 6, they have just demonetized my ENTIRE CHANNEL.
They say I produce "Content that focuses on controversial issues and that is harmful to viewers"
Last time they demonetized my channel, it took SEVEN MONTHS of advocating including stories in @Forbes, @ABC, @arstechnica, @RollingStone and several others for them to fix it.
THREAD: @TeamYouTube deleted historical documentary footage detailing an aspect of the events that transpired on January 6, which is clearly evidence in President Trump's upcoming trial.
Today, I've sent the footage to the Impeachment Managers and President Trump's attorneys.
The footage, which I originally posted here, shows the crowd's reaction during President Trump's speech ahead of the Capitol Insurrection.
@TeamYouTube deleted it weeks later, within 24 hours of the delivery of articles of impeachment to the senate.
The Articles of Impeachment themselves reference moments I also captured and pointed out in my original upload.
@TeamYouTube apparently believes the American people don't deserve to see how the audience responded when he said those historic lines.
THREAD: Antifa protesters recognized Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday night in front of an ICE facility in Portland, where they set up a candle-lit vigil and set fire to an American flag and a dumpster.