I do not have video of this. Some of my footage malfunctioned and the data was lost; but a second woman died (or came close). Some people said this happened to a man but I perceived a woman. She had on shredded (I think) jeans with red leggings underneath. It was a very...
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intense situation that occurred after I saw several people get trampled, nearly avoiding that myself. She collapsed in the entryway to the capital building and was trampled. Compressions were preformed on her but I was unable to feel a carotid or femoral pulse. Several...
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men carried her back to the police line. She was very cyanotic & bleeding from the face.

This happened within the entry hall and directly in front of the entrance to the Capital building in DC. I’m not seeing this reported or hearing that people are aware of it.
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She collapsed in the entry way to the capital Building. I was filming at the edge of the entrance just outside the flow a large group of people pressing into & being pressed from behind into the hallway. A large man grabbed from behind, pushed me into the Frey and said,...
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“you’re going in, get in there,” (I think). And I was fought in the mob and pressed into the entry hallway.

I managed to pull myself into a corner nook against the wall. Moments after, the police inside made a great push outward against the dozens of people pushing...
5/?
inward. Everyone became packed like sardines unable to move against the flow of bodies.

At this point, the police and citizens began unleashing a sea of spray mace from both sides. It was nearly impossible to breathe or keep from panicking. The man next to me passed...
6/?
out but remained standing due to how tightly we were packed. I slapped his face and he revived. About this time, the woman collapsed, the police overcame the crowd, and I began to see people being seriously trampled as people were fleeing.

The police approached...
7/?
me and were going to mace me and use physical force. I had nowhere to go. I told them that I was press filming the event, that I was a non combatant, and that I had been pressed into the hallway. They immediately left me alone and moved forward. A few moments later...
8/?
as I was surrounded by police, front and back, the entryway cleared and an officer directed me to exit then or to remain. I exited.

After this, I came across the woman laying unconscious, not breathing and the rest was mentioned above.
9/end

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There won't be a rerun of Jan 6. The riot at the Capitol was unique in many ways: Trump called for it; it was the last chance to "overturn" the election; it was huge in scale.


The coming Trumpist events on Jan 17 and Jan 20 will probably be much smaller in scale, especially in DC. The MAGA crew can't buy another flight and take more days off work so soon after Jan 6.

Some of the Trumpist forums are actively suspicious of these events, claiming they're FBI or Antifa traps. A lot of people at TDW felt that the *design* of this flyer was too lefty to be real!


Unfortunately, that doesn't mean everything will be OK. The statehouse events on Jan 17 have the potential to turn violent, where a few hundred people could be enough to overwhelm local authorities.

MAGA anger at a lot of the GOP is high, as well as against Dems. Even red states could see problems, so I hope authorities are prepared.

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x