This has been bugging me for over a month: How the hell were they allowed to build a damn gallows in front of the Capitol? Like...you'd think someone would get out there and say, "Whoa, you're not allowed to do that."
And, I mean, this wasn't some little mockup or prop. It could support at least two people. 
That means people were carrying in large pieces of solid wood. How was that allowed? Did they have a permit? Because I'm pretty sure that if I just started building a functioning gallows in Central Park, the cops would halt that pretty damn quickly.
And that gallows took a while to construct. It was pre-riot. There was time for Capitol police or park police to go out there and stop it.
I'm not gonna speculate or get conspiratorial about why it was allowed. But it's worth a question or two. As many have said, you don't waste the time and money building something like that unless you're intending to use it.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1347980038222860288
The fact that they were able to get away with building it is something that sticks out to me like, well, a gallows on the lawn in front of the Capitol.
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