DC Trip Updates: January 6
5:30 AM – Our core team at 5:30 this morning. Young people from across the Midwest, the South, and the Northeast, here to stand for freedom. Call your senators and representatives and tell them to object to the electors. Call, call, call! They vote in four hours.
1 PM – Walking to the Capitol. We’re standing for election integrity. Our republic is nothing if we do not have free and fair elections.
5 PM –
8 PM –
Our team was at the Capitol when the riot happened, here is what we saw and heard:
Yesterday I volunteered for Stop the Steal and worked in the office with the staff. I even met with them this morning. They were respectful to security and police, kind, calm, and patient. Ali Alexander has a solid team and a good mission.
The crowd this morning at the rally by the White House was very positive, excited, and peaceful. The President was collected and logical in his speech. He shared evidence of fraud with facts and even encouraged peace for the march to the Capitol.
While we were walking up Pennsylvania Ave, we started hearing that a group had breached the barricade to the Capitol steps. When we arrived near the front of the Capitol, we never heard anyone directing the crowd to storm the Capitol.
There was tear gas being set off on the steps and we decided to move our group to the side of the Capitol. As we were moving, we could see the group beginning to enter the Capitol and we saw more tear gas. Police carried one man out on a stretcher. My perspective is that it seemed uncharacteristic from the tone of the day and the events.
The city of Washington, DC has had Antifa rioting and destroying property for months and the Mayor did not prosecute and put them in jail. I have a pretty decent suspicion that the riot was not instigated by Trump supporters but was agitated by Antifa and that is 100% on the hands of the Mayor of Washington, DC.
The lawn of the Capitol stayed peaceful for the next hour. There were not large crowds rushing into the Capitol, there was not continued agitation or skirmishes.
Stop The Steal had such a good event put together and the message of peace was so prevalent….it’s a real shame that Antifa was able to ruin the day. We wanted objectors, we wanted to follow that path…today was not the day to storm the Capitol. I’m sure there are varied perspectives on the events – this is what we saw from the groups we were with.
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