Background Pony #5468
The footage shows more than a dozen protesters inside a ransacked outer office at the Capitol building during last week’s siege — as they coordinate how to get further into the heart of the historic government center.
[FoxNews] Capitol Police looking at reports of members giving tours in days before riot
[CNN] GOP lawmaker accused of giving ‘reconnaissance’ tour prior to Capitol riot
The lockdown (on tours) was in response to alarm from some congressional members who were growing concerned about seeing large groups of pro-Trump supporters walking around the Capitol the week around the swearing in of the new Congress leading up to the January 6. It was a level of traffic that had not taken place since officials tightened access to the building in March of last year to limit spread from the coronavirus pandemic
[Washington Post] Lawmakers gave groups ‘reconnaissance’ tours of the Capitol one day before riots
[NY Times] Police Investigating Whether Lawmakers Gave Rioters Tour of Capitol Before Siege
[NBC News] FBI probing if foreign governments, groups funded extremists who helped execute Capitol attack
Sure, clearly unplanned. Completely spur of the moment. /s
So one is left to assume that it legitimately was just an event that went way out of hand
The footage shows more than a dozen protesters inside a ransacked outer office at the Capitol building during last week’s siege — as they coordinate how to get further into the heart of the historic government center.
[FoxNews] Capitol Police looking at reports of members giving tours in days before riot
[CNN] GOP lawmaker accused of giving ‘reconnaissance’ tour prior to Capitol riot
The lockdown (on tours) was in response to alarm from some congressional members who were growing concerned about seeing large groups of pro-Trump supporters walking around the Capitol the week around the swearing in of the new Congress leading up to the January 6. It was a level of traffic that had not taken place since officials tightened access to the building in March of last year to limit spread from the coronavirus pandemic
[Washington Post] Lawmakers gave groups ‘reconnaissance’ tours of the Capitol one day before riots
[NY Times] Police Investigating Whether Lawmakers Gave Rioters Tour of Capitol Before Siege
[NBC News] FBI probing if foreign governments, groups funded extremists who helped execute Capitol attack
Sure, clearly unplanned. Completely spur of the moment. /s