I don't know how many of you were actually in Washington DC yesterday, but given the overwhelming number of people we saw, I imagine there are plenty of you who can share your own first-hand accounts of the events. I would like to focus on the entire controversy, and confirm the truth behind what many of you who were NOT there likely suspect: no one broke into or stormed the Capitol building.

Very early on, as the first few of the massive sea of people began arriving at the Capitol building from where President Trump gave his address, I watched as a door on the right-hand side of the building (when you're facing it from the front) opened up and a police officer stepped out to invite a group of 20 or so to come inside. One of several people who came running back out minutes later told us what had happened:

He told me that some LE officials (he couldn't tell if they were Capitol police, federal LE, private security, or what) escorted them along the corridors toward the House chambers. They were told they would be allowed to come inside and watch the proceedings when a white male, dressed exactly like pantifa but wearing a Trump hat, started punching and kicking the interior windows. Several other questionable-looking "Trump supporters" joined in, and that the officers made absolutely no move to stop it. They were just standing by as though they had been ordered to let a pack of savages destroy the building.

The guy relaying this to us said the majority of the group - none of whom had any desire to break shit and riot - felt like something was seriously wrong and started retreating back toward the door through which they were invited in. Just as they were about to turn the corner, he said he looked back at the officers - who were still just standing there, letting the crazy assholes tear the place up - when he saw two muzzle flashes from inside the House chambers just before he heard two shots. They then got the hell out of there, where he told a large group of people - including me - what had happened. There were several others with him who confirmed the story.

Obviously the one of those two rounds killed Ashli Babbitt, who - like the guy who told us what happened - was invited inside, told she would be allowed in, tried to leave when it got weird, and was completely unarmed. I discerned no deceit in the guy relating the story, nor in the others who had run out with him. They were genuinely freaked out, some were pale and trembling, and none of them looked or acted like disguised pantifa.

I'll now share my first-hand experience from outside the building. I was standing about 30 yards from the front barricades of the Capitol building, towards the right-hand side, just to the left of a large wooden platform covering the concrete walkway. I'm still not sure of the platform's purpose, but if you stay on the walkway, you just walk up five wooden steps, go the one-yard length of the plateau, and walk five steps back down.

We had been standing there, waiting for more of the people to make their way from the Washington Monument down the mall to the Capitol Building. We are all 100% peaceful and minding our own business when officers started firing tear gas canisters and throwing flash-bangs directly into the crowd from the lower balcony of the building. Old ladies, small children, handicapped - there were a LOT of innocent, vulnerable, law-abiding people up closer than I was who came streaming back towards us, faces red, snot pouring from their noses, and their eyes swollen shut.

I have always supported law enforcement, and attended my share of Back the Blue rallies. But the cowards who attacked us yesterday have absolutely no business carrying a badge. They NEVER gave us an order us to disperse. There was no warning, no declaration of an unlawful assembly, or ANYTHING else to indicate anything was amiss. We were just fine one minute, and the next we were under attack.

I have video that covers a twelve-minute span from when everything was fine to the first rounds of attack, proving that we were assaulted and provoked. Where most people (pantifa, others) generally run when pepper balls start flying through the tear gas, we held our ground. It wasn't until the third round of gas and sustained assault that hundreds of unarmed, untrained, pissed off citizens finally rushed forward, tearing away security barriers and climbing up the structure to overwhelmed the police who were attacking us. Nobody so much as swung a stick or picked up a rock - and even in our righteous anger we did not riot, nor did anyone pursue the officers as they ran away. I watched as more people began to fill up the upper and lower balconies, and the stands that were on both sides of the building's front. I could tell their intent was to prevent futher assault on those of us on front of the building and back onto the Mall.

It was not our actions that ruined the day. Whoever ordered whichever law enforcement group it was to attack us did so in order to provoke just enough of a response to justify the overwhelming show of force that was then called in last night. And whoever was beating and bashing in those windows made sure the cowards and thieves elected to represent us were given exactly the excuse they needed to do what they all wanted anyway and decide once and for all to crown Biden the fraudulent king of America.

EDIT 1: For those of you who were there, I would love to hear what you saw, whether it confirms or refutes my own account. I am an imperfect human witness who is still somewhat in shock over seeing some other things yesterday which I have not shared in this post. And I know I didn't see everything that happened - I caught only my own little slice of time and space.

EDIT 2: Regarding the security barriers, I never actually saw them being dismantled. It was my assumption they were dismantled by those rushing forward to stop the assault, but I can't honestly say if there even were any barriers standing there as I wasn't at the front row of the crowd. I could only see the people climbing up the structures.