“Let’s walk down Pennsylvania avenue,” President Donald Trump ended his speech to thousands of supporters in front of the White House Wednesday, repeating an earlier call on his voters to march to the Capitol Building and demonstrate against legislators certifying Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.
As the words left Trump’s mouth, video surfaced of Trump supporters attempting to approach the Capitol Building, storming past barricades.
Some, according to Washington Post reporter Rebecca Tan, were tackled by police as they attempted to enter the legislative building.
Protesters are charging toward the Captiol steps. Some tried to scale the construction structures and have been tackled by police. They want to enter the building and are making attempts at intervals. Capitol police trying to hold them back. pic.twitter.com/YflxS1miBw
— Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) January 6, 2021
Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the building. pic.twitter.com/68nB7QyiP9
— Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) January 6, 2021
Trump said earlier in his speech Wednesday that he would join supporters on their march to the legislature, and that he would be watching Republican members of Congress who voted to officially make him a one-term President.
One of the speakers at the week’s demonstrations, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles President Ed Martin, told TPM Tuesday that the National Parks Service hadn’t permitted a march between the White House and the Capitol Building, foretelling the chaos to come.
“They’re not actually permitting a march,” Martin said. “We’re all going to move from down at the Ellipse to Capitol Hill.”
Whoa: Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol as Congress counts the Electoral College ballots inside pic.twitter.com/LiQhaa5KkQ
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6, 2021
