it’s really hot and humid and a lot of people brought dogs who need to be taken home! every dog here is panting desperately!
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aha, it’s because the rally is over. braynard is warning people to leave peacefully and stay in groups. i guess the cops are anxious about the transition - this crowd will leave the fenced in permitted area and pass a small number of counter protesters across the street.
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“if anybody told you this was a false flag event or a trap, remember their names and never trust them again,” matt braynard’s parting words to the small crowd who attended his rally, which lasted just over an hour.
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a polish journalist is using the line of riot cops against the background of the capitol building as the frame for her live spot
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this is at least the fourth time i’ve heard we didn’t start the fire since i got here two hours ago
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one people’s project daryle lamont jenkins spotted famous white supremacist jared taylor just enjoying the event on the edge of the crowd
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journalists from all over the world are using the riot cops as the backdrop for their spots. it feels deeply performative on the part of the police. security theater.
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jared taylor wasn’t the only famous racist here today
braynard apparently added propagandists from the white nationalist site VDARE to the justice for j6 rally’s press list.
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the guy in the raccoon hat says he isn’t a trump fan, it’s just that he did vote for him, he does think trump won, and that the election was stolen.
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“you’re no better than the pharisees!” a woman says, walking way from a disagreement about whether BLM is a marxist terrorist organization, after the woman making that claim dropped to her knees in prayer rather than defend the statement.
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vincent fusca, the man some qanon believers believe is secretly JFK jr, is deep in conversation with a look ahead america event organizer
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police are starting to move out some of the countless dump trucks used as barricades around the event
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i admit i desperately want to know what the LAA lady and jfk jr have been talking about for so long
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last time i walked up the national mall, it was eerily empty, but for the steady stream of people heading toward the capitol, many of whom would go on to break into the building. today it’s just tourists and food trucks & i’m getting some lamb gyro.
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something to think about, perhaps, is how much of police behavior is decided based on PR, optics, and overtime scamming rather than actual threat assessment and investigative work ahead of time or during an event.
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