[UPDATE: TOTALLY NOT TRUE AND HERE’S VIDEO PROOF] – New surveillance video shows police lying in wait for protesters during Capitol riot

by The Right Scoop

MAJOR UPDATE: This video was deceptive and did not include other footage that shows Capitol police officers securing the outer doors and the protesters breaking through. As you’ll see down below, Julie Kelly has already deleted her tweets because they are wrong.

Here’s the proper video that shows everything:

I hate this. I don’t like embarrassing people on our side for being wrong (did you not see the other vids @julie_kelly2 ?)… but here we are.

Julie says: “DC and Capitol police retreated into the tunnel. Protesters followed. Rather than secure the doors, police left them open—many thought it was ok to enter, needed to escape cold, etc.”

This is patently false. I’ve synced 3 or 4 videos together to show you the whole scene from the protestor POV, the wall-mounted camera, a bodycam and a rioter in the melee.

1) the police secured the doors.
2) the rioters broke down the doors.
3) the push was relentless from the rioters.

This is ugly. And it doesn’t help when our side is uninformed and/or lying about it.

 
– – – ORIGINAL STORY – – –

Julie Kelly has put out a video that seems to show police lying in wait for protesters as they were lining up at one of the entrances in the Capitol.

Watch below:

Now I’ve watched the video and at first blush it looks completely normal to me, like officers preparing to defend the Capitol.

But Kelly adds this:

DC and Capitol police retreated into the tunnel. Protesters followed. Rather than secure the doors, police left them open—many thought it was ok to enter, needed to escape cold, etc. This is what prompted a sustained 2-hour battle resulting in numerous injuries and the death of Rosanne Boyland.

Now if you look at the top of those doors when they open in the video, they are super thick. My first thought was the officers might have believed the protesters would breach the doors and maybe that’s still the case. But given how thick they are, I seriously doubt it. This is the US Capitol. It would likely take heavy artillery to breach doors like these.

So why did they leave the doors open?


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