On Jan. 6, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked outside the U.S. Capitol, turned to a crowd of protesters and infamously saluted them with a raised fist before going inside to try to throw out Novembers election results.
About an hour later, some of those protesters broke through police barricades and stormed up the steps of the Capitol, where the mob smashed on the door until they gained entry to the building and a melee with law enforcement awaited.
Hawley insisted earlier this week that he was saluting peaceful protesters and has maintained that he did nothing to encourage the violence that day.
I dont know which of those protesters, if any of them, those demonstrators, participated in the criminal riot, Hawley said Tuesday during a live event with The Washington Post , calling it a slur to say they were all rioters.
But its ridiculous for Hawley to suggest he waved to a peaceful crowd and that he couldnt possibly know if any of those people were part of the insurrection after he went inside. Photos and videos from that day show that many people on the east side of the Capitol were eager participants in the days events. HuffPost, working with members of the Sedition Hunters community and the group Capitol Terrorists Exposers, endeavored to help Hawley resolve the question of whether hed saluted rioters on Jan. 6. The conclusion? He did.
Hawley waved to the crowd from across the Capitol plaza shortly before 1 p.m. At a distance of about 200 feet, it would have been tough for him to see all the people very clearly.
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I dont know which of those protesters, if any of them, those demonstrators, participated in the criminal riot.
- Josh Hawley
Hawley couldnt have seen the contingent of Proud Boys, including the now-incarcerated Joseph Biggs and Ethan Nordean, that briefly visited the east side of the Capitol, according to a video taken that day. But he could have known they were in Washington and that there had already been violence and arrests. Members of Congress had been warned to use the Capitols underground tunnels to reach the House chamber.
Videos from the east side of the Capitol that day also show Keith Lee, who later infiltrated the Rotunda, talking about how the barricades wouldnt be strong enough to hold people back and telling a crowd he would risk life, limb and injury. Another part of the video shows a man screaming storm the Capitol into a bullhorn. During a livestream interview (that was deleted but viewed by HuffPost), Ann Vandersteel, a podcaster, reported that a lot of people are talking about storming the Capitol if [the Electoral College vote certification] isnt done the right way.
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Most of the fighting and violence happened on the west side of the Capitol, but protesters on the east side, where Hawley raised his fist, also fought police. Roughly an hour after Hawleys appearance, at the same location, violent rioters pushed past the barricades and a massive crowd flooded toward the buildings center steps, as seen in the video below. Few stayed behind.
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