For this project I closely examined hundreds of videos from the Inaugural entrance as the first crowds arrived, piecing them together into a timeline, that showed how the anger at the police grew through the day.
https://twitter.com/OARichardEngel/status/1381509469461479425
While early on there were some scuffles with the police two factors seem to have really turned the crowd against the police. The first was when the police started using crowd control munitions against the crowd, this video at 1:34pm being good example.
This video from 1:25pm gives a good sense of how the crowd reacted when the police started using crowd control munitions against them. They were furious and felt betrayed projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol…
As the crowd grew to an immense size with the arrival of Trump supporters it seemed to embolden some of the more aggressive elements of the crowd, and by around 2:30pm they pushed through the police lines and moved upwards.
My impression from watching these videos is the police were totally outnumbered, and their only option for keeping the crowd back only led to the crowd turning against the police and becoming increasingly violent.
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