January 19, 2021, 7:52 am
So many videos were taken and posted during the Capitol riots that footage from that day is still being uncovered and going viral.
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In one of the stranger videos that’s recently come out, a Trump supporter outside of the Capitol actually has the audacity to berate police for not interfering and going up against an angry mob that far outnumbers them.
“Why are you letting this happen?” a man in a Make America Great Again hat demands as he approaches officers standing nearby. “Why haven’t you called for backup? Where is your backup? This is our damn Capitol building! And y’all are letting it get destroyed on your watch!”
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The man continues, screaming obscenities at them and insisting they need to call for backup.
“These people want blood!” he yells.
While some people expressed disbelief that the man didn’t realize what he was getting himself into when he joined up with this mob, many commenters were pleasantly surprised to see someone in the MAGA crowd not getting caught up in the violent destruction of the others.
“This is honestly the first clip I’ve seen so far of anyone involved displaying rational, normal behaviour,” u/red-submarine wrote.
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Another user posited that he probably “wasn’t the only one who was horrified when he saw it get out of hand. Truly a ‘what have we done’ moment.”
Others joke that this was the only time they believed the claim Republicans kept making about “Antifa” dressing up like MAGA supporters and infiltrating the crowd.
“Hey guys, I found the ‘antifa member dressed in a maga hat’ they’ve been talking about,” said u/jg877cn.
“Nah, he wasn’t wearing it backwards,” joked u/Lord_Blathoxi. “All the Antifa [wore] it backwards I heard.”
Obviously not every Trump supporter who went to Washington, D.C., to protest what they (wrongly) believed to be a rigged election wanted that protest to erupt in violence and chaos. But we saw far too many of them get carried away and participate all the same, potentially egged on by the very leader they came to support.
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“The moment you realize maybe Trump has gone too far,” one Reddit user wrote, summing the whole thing up. “Talk about too little too late.”
*First Published: January 19, 2021, 7:52 am
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