New: ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive...

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New: ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

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As supporters of President Donald Trump took part in a violent riot at the Capitol, users of the social media service Parler posted videos of themselves and others joining the fray. ProPublica reviewed thousands of videos uploaded publicly to the service that were archived by a programmer before Parler was taken offline by its web host. Below is a collection of more than 500 videos that ProPublica determined were taken during the events of Jan. 6 and were relevant and newsworthy. Taken together, they provide one of the most comprehensive records of a dark event in American history through the eyes of those who took part. Read more: Why We Published Hundreds of Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riots | Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal

Videos are ordered by the time they were taken. Scroll down to start watching or click on the timeline to jump to any point in the day.

https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/

[Nevilledog]

1. K & R

[yardwork]

2. Kick

[TruckFump]

3. KNR

Thank you for the post.

[BusyBeingBest]

4. I am grateful this is all being preserved, so Republicans and the Q-nuts can stop

minimizing and gaslighting about what happened (IT WAS NINETY NINE POINT NINE NINE NINE PEACEFUL! EXCEPT FOR ANTIFA!!).

[calimary]

33. And isn't it just delicious how many of 'em didn't wear masks?

Yes it’s unhealthy, selfish, thoughtless, and can spread the virus. But on the other hand, it makes ‘em so easy to identify!

Make their pigheadedness work for the rest of us.

[BusyBeingBest]

35. I think most of them WANTED to be seen and recognized.

They were proud of acting like destructive fools.

[modrepub]

5. Why Have We Seen More Footage From NonGovernment Sources

Then from our own government?!? Who's going to come forward and stitch all of this together? It's been weeks and there still hasn't been a high level press briefing from anyone as far as I know.

It's like this was just some minor fist fight after a sporting event and not an attempt to usurp the government. I'm loosing confidence anyone in the federal government is going to take this uprising very seriously.

[Leith]

9. I'm glad that there hasn't been more footage yet

What we have seen so far is footage recorded by the rioters themselves and posted online like fukkin' idjits.

No doubt that there are hours worth of footage from security cameras that we will never see because they are in secure and possibly secret areas.

In time we will see security camera footage from public areas of the Capitol, but just be patient. There are hundreds of prosecution cases being put together that will take time to be done properly. Rushing it will result in guilty people getting off on technicalities.

[Blue_playwright]

19. I also wonder if...

... some folks are being watched so they can implicate others in their texts, etc.

[reACTIONary]

21. +10 nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Even while it was happening we could not understand why

So many pics while committing a crime? Never saw anyone hide their face.

There has to be an explanation. Every one of them could not be a moron. Mathematically impossible.

I think there was a crazy mix of people involved.

[BusyBeingBest]

29. They didn't think they were committing a crime, most of them.

Trump and Cruz and Hawley and others gave them the green light to go to the Capitol to "pressure" Congress. They felt perfectly entitled to do what they did, and they acted like little kids in school who discover there's no one watching them at recess. The serious ones wore masks, hid their faces, avoided cameras.

[Cobalt Violet]

6. A lot of videos there.

Haven't looked at all of it yet but really hope we can find who built the gallows and when it was built.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Exactly. Shows supreme premeditation. How do you even haul

The wood for that around? Hard to tell from pics but looked like it was quite far away, back from Capitol.?

[Cobalt Violet]

31. not really sure

I thought maybe on the edge of the grounds or just outside the grounds.

[crickets]

7. After a while, it's mind-numbing seeing image after image of rioters

who are so deluded that they don't stop to think about just how horrible their actions are. So grateful they never managed to find any of the people they were looking for. It would have been even worse, so much worse.

[cwydro]

8. Every time I see one of these videos, the sheer noise of these idiots blows me away.

I hate crowds, and I really hate crowds that make so much noise.

[mackdaddy]

10. What about Parler Vids from the days BEFORE the 6th, Specifically at the Capitol?

I do not have twitter, and not likely to.

But, I have seen threads here and on twitter where they were plotting the GPS location data on where different Parler posts were being made during the Riots on the 6th in and around the Capitol.

Since more data from Parler was also scraped, I am surprised that no one has found posts from Before the riots. I would think that some of the people taking the reconnaissance tours of and in the Capitol building are dumb enough to post selfies and videos of their tours before the riots.

This would seem to me to be the quickest way to verify who was actually there pre-sedition day.

If anyone is on one of the citizen investigative threads you might ask this question.

[Alex4Martinez]

11. Kickity!

[2naSalit]

12. K&R

[SunSeeker]

13. K & R & Retweeted!

[orangecrush]

14. KICK

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. Law enforcement has an awful lot to work with.

Turn a few, a few more and soon there will be hundreds and hundreds.

[PatrickforO]

16. I get more furious every time I see these traitors.

I'm glad ProPublica did this. Evidence.

[housecat]

17. Plenty of material for face recognition.

It's mind-boggling that this country was sound asleep at the wheel.

[gademocrat7]

18. K&R

These domestic terrorists must be prosecuted.

[FakeNoose]

20. ProPublica has several hours of sequenced videos from different perspectives

This is a huge collection. If you know people who attended the insurrection, this is worth your while. Rat them out, if you can.

The FBI is requesting to us to carefully scroll through these videos and see if we can positively ID anyone. There's a handy link to send your tips to the FBI. Or maybe the tips go to ProPublica and they will collect and send to the authorities.

Suggestion: it might be easier to view these without the audio playing. I found the audio track to be distracting and very repetitive.

[Sedona]

23. K&R

[MontanaMama]

24. Kick.

Drip drip drip. These videos will help get more of the traitors arrested.

[IsItJustMe]

26. I have already seen enough. For me, it's like watching that plane fly into the world trade center

over and over again. It sickens me physically to watch such cruelty and insanity. But I am grateful to the
people who can, and are, doing this because a record needs to me make of this deplorable event.

[treestar]

27. Kick

They are all so certain!

[Jimvanhise]

28. EXHIBIT A

This shows exactly how Trump got the crowd revved up and wanting revenge for what Trump calls "a rigged election" among other comments designed to make the crowd he summoned angry enough to want to do something about it. It is by no means an "appropriate" speech.

[intrepidity]

30. KnR nt

[progressoid]

32. And these morons have millions of supporters out there.

It's going to be a tough few years trying to undo this.

[MustLoveBeagles]

34. Bookmarked

[Hortensis]

36. "...the issue is he's talking ... we've got to get to the Capitol

and he's still talking..." Some guy in the crowd before they finally headed out for their dates with destiny.