Video analysis indicate Antifa was escalting the crisis when Babbitt was shot

[berdee]

Originally Posted by snowmountains

Here is another reporter's account:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4znj6Rx9Iw

This was a good interview. It seems that Michael Yon had spent a great deal of time investigating antifa and what makes them tick. Many on the left will automatically dismiss what he says just because it's a youtube video and just because they don't like what he says.


He was Special Forces in the 80's. In the 90's he became a writer/journalist and photographer, it seems often in war zones. According to US military, as reported by the NYT, he spent "more time embedded with combat units [in Iraq] than any other journalist".

Apparently the left and right wing media has a great deal of respect for Yon's journalistic work. Will the left wing msm viewers afford him the same respect or will they dismiss him simply because they don't like what he says?

“His work has a remarkable, chin-out, unvarnished intimacy,” said Jackie Lyden, a National Public Radio reporter who has worked in Iraq. “He isn’t a guarded, diplomatically toned reporter; he can be very frank, and he questions his own assumptions.” ....

Along the way, he created a niche outlet that is better reported than most blogs, and more opinionated than most news reporting, with enough first-hand observation, clarity and skepticism to put many professional journalists to shame.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/b...aqblogger.html

[Taratova]

Antifa was there. proof.


https://twitter.com/JayElias2/status...721537/photo/1

[berdee]

Originally Posted by Ken_N

It is not hard to find out what either side has planned, just go to their web sites and chat rooms, etc.!

That is what BLM activist John Sullivan did when he participated in the DC riot:

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/...amber-sullivan

Changing clothes is an Antifa tactic, they arrive in one set of clothes, they change to black-bloc, they do their illegal stuff, and then they change again and blend in with the crowd.

Yes, it is.
The woman in the video had a bit of misspeak when she asked the question "how would Trump supporters do that", change clothes during a riot. It's pretty clear she meant "why" would they do that. It's a very good question since Trump supporters are not known for carrying a change of clothing into a riot and then sneaking off to change clothes in order to change their appearance. That is a known antifa tactic.


I hadn't watch the full raw video so I don't know if the fur hat wearing guy had been toting his backpack with him, or if it was stashed somewhere on the stairs, or if it was handed to him by another. If it was stashed on the stairs I do wonder why the Capitol police didn't take it, just in case there were explosives or other weapons in it. It is weird that he that he managed to make it through a gauntlet of cops on the stairs after being seen smashing the window on the door, then maybe retrieve his backpack, and then starts changing his clothes right there next to all these cops...without a single cop stopping him, questioning him or making sure there was nothing in his backpack that could be a weapon.


It does seem that there was help given to get into the building, to know which rooms were certain congress peoples rooms, to ignore backpacks sitting around, etc. The questions are who was helping and why, and for which side - antifa or Trump supporters? Will we ever know for sure? I kind of doubt we will.


Right now I'd like to know who those three people were in the video in the OP. The fur hat guy who was inciting people, smashing the window and changing his clothes. The yellow flag guy who seemed to be helping fur hat guy. And the orange coat guy that was smashing the window.