InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
What led to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th? #FollowTheTimeline
POLICE BRUTALITY evidence thread. 🧵👇
https://twitter.com/i/status/1627767483959595022InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
Replying to
@InvestigateJ6
On January 6th at 1:13pm: Officer Thau and the DC Metropolitan Police arrived on the Capitol’s West Plaza.
Upon arrival, Thau frantically requests Capitol Police provide him with “blast munitions” to start throwing at the mostly peaceful crowd.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
Thau repeatedly requests “blast munitions” from different supervisors on the ground for the next 10 minutes.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
At 1:17pm, Thau orders Capitol PD ‘snipers nest’ to continue firing indiscriminately into the crowd.
He screams “let’s go, bleep shoot them!” “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
At 1:22pm, Thau grabs a DC officer’s taser. He then rushes to the front line and proceeds to tase a random protestor who can be heard screaming in pain.
The crowd responds angrily to Thau’s offensive use of the weapon, yelling “what the bleep is wrong with you guys?!”
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
Blast and incendiary munitions arrive at 1:25pm.
From approx 1:25pm until 2:25pm, Capitol and DC police incite the crowd with an unrelenting barrage of grenades and mortars.
Protestor Kevin Greeson drops dead at 1:28pm. Witnesses allege he was killed by one of these grenades.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
On January 6th at 2:02pm, protestor Derrick Vargo is pushed from a ledge on the NW staircase by a Capitol PD officer as he attempts to hang a Trump flag.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
At 2:03pm, DC police first use their LRAD system (long range acoustic device), in violation of established protocol.
DC law requires police to give 3 separate warnings with the LRAD and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or munitions to clear a protest crowd.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
The text images included here are from Jon Turley’s testimony on the clearing of the Pershing Park BLM protests outside the White House in 2020.
The attempted clearing of the West Plaza protest was evidently illegal according to case law highlighted in
http://congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110833/witnesses/HHRG-116-II00-Wstate-TurleyJ-20200629.pdf… Show more
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
On January 6th at 2:18pm, DC police Sgt. Edwards admits to his Commander that their munitions are hitting innocent people. Officer Thau admits that they are inciting ten protestors for every person they hit. 💣🔥
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
At 2:19pm, the DC commander orders officers not to “lose the steps of the Capitol.”
At 2:25pm, more 40mm munitions arrive. Thau orders Officer ‘Rich’ to shoot a CS mortar “over the bleep scaffolding.”
Rich misfires and gases the entire DC police line, causing them to retreat.
InvestigateJ6
@InvestigateJ6
·
Feb 20
At 2:33pm, Thau tells arriving DC MPD officers to abandon the West Plaza, ordering them “do not go down the bleep stairs.”
