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When Luke Mogelson attended President Donald Trumps speech on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, he was prepared for the possibility that violence might erupt that day. Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and a contributing writer at The New Yorker, had spent the previous ten months reporting on the radical fringe of Trump supporters, from anti-lockdown militias to fascist groups such as the Proud Boys. After Election Day, he interviewed Trump supporters who showed up at ballot-tabulation sites, and who believed the Presidents lies that the results had been rigged and his victory stolen. At one post-election pro-Trump rally in D.C., Mogelson witnessed racist violence against Black residents of the nations capital. At another event, he watched the host of the white-supremacist Web program America First declare, Our Founding Fathers would get in the streets, and they would take this country back by force if necessary. And that is what we must be prepared to do.
After Trumps incendiary speech, Mogelson followed the Presidents supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phones camera as a reporters notebook. What follows is a video that includes some of that raw footage. Mogelson harnessed this material while writing his panoramic, definitive report, Among the Insurrectionists, which the magazine posted online on Friday. (It appears in print in the January 25th issue.) His prose vividly captures how the raging anger and violence of the initial breach of the Capitol was followed by an eerily quiet and surreal interlude inside the Senate chamber, where Mogelson watched people rummaging through desks and posing for photographs. Although the footage was not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelsons probing, illuminating report.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Protester to cops around the -10:10 mark.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Cruz would want us to do this
They find his notes..
Cruz was gonna sell us out
He is made of Swiss
Antifa living rent free in their heads too
chowder66
(9,073 posts)to realize that was in their favor, so naturally he sold them out until they figured it out and said he's on our side... dear god.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)Threw them for a moment.
Imagine if he'd written his plan was to lodge a demurral, the heads that would have exploded.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)Love how the one guy has to rip the tarp covering the scaffolding when there is a huge opening to his left. And now I understand why people are calling the weird animal headdress guy Q-Bacca.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)And they all removed their MAGA hats from their heads exposing the bakelite in their skulls.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)TexasLefty29
(190 posts)wear a mask to save an actual human life, but theyll remove a hat to pray to something invisible. Got it.
Talitha
(6,593 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)He was using his phone, not a camera or credentials, and that's likely why he's alive.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)How easily human beings can turn into insane monsters.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)All those guys around him seemed immersed in the practice of praying.
Scary stuff.
theneworiginal
(302 posts)This was his GQ shoot for radical dirtbags.
Enjoy your 15 minutes. No one will see your ugly face except prison guards for the foreseeable future.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)There, I completed the sentence.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 17, 2021, 11:28 PM - Edit history (1)
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Larry Rendell Brock Jr, the Grapevine man facing federal charges for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week, was released from custody Thursday after a prosecutor asserted in court earlier in the day that the retired Air Force officer should be detained as a threat to the public claiming he carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs in the riot because he intended to "take hostages."
The prosecutor argued that Brock should be detained, but Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton said he would release Brock to home confinement under the conditions that he surrenders any firearms and only be allowed limited internet access.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/grapevine-man-accused-of-storming-u-s-capitol-expected-to-be-freed-thursday/2528858/
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)One guy actually said that. Twice!
The cap cop says "4 million?". Guys affirms it again!
Cop "Oh, ok.". Which I think was a subtle "Yeah sure, crazy dude".
yardwork
(61,650 posts)Hotler
(11,425 posts)Piss on these sons of bitches.
Mariana
(14,858 posts)Christian churches and ministries all over the country are preaching it.
nam78_two
(14,529 posts)Seriously creepy..especially the part where they say "where the fuck is Nancy". I hope Pelosi has really good security. The most unbelievable part was hearing them chant "Treason". They really are out of touch with reality. I think they honestly believe the election was stolen. I suppose if you reject everything but the garbage streaming out of that hole in Trump's face.....
byronius
(7,395 posts)Effing Black Mirror episode.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Stephen King couldn't have scripted a more chilling scene.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)Those idiots didnt have a plan. Someone else may have but these guys...freaking white ISIS merican. Jfc, that is embarrassing. The Hatfields and McCoys raided the capital building.
BusyBeingBest
(8,054 posts)papers, telling the one police officer how it was going to be. All he could do was bear witness, helpless. One guy said "You should be stopping us!" and he said "There's only one of me". Unbelievably sad.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Lock Cruz up for inciting insurrection!
WestLosAngelesGal
(268 posts)These insurrectionists are filthy federal criminals. There better not be one pardon for any of them.
Akacia
(583 posts)I wonder what info they were looking for.