More video seems to surface every day from the siege on Capitol Hill. On the website, Just Security, Justin Hendrix authored a post where he said, “I analyzed dozens of hours of Parler videos scraped from the site of the events of January 6th at the US Capitol. They reveal the psychology of the crowd, and how its violent behavior was a direct result Trump’s rhetoric.” Along with Ryan Goodman, the two put a video. The pair writes:
What’s revealed by these videos is not only relevant to the impeachment trial of Trump, where the House has charged that Trump “willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged—and foreseeably resulted—in lawless action at the Capitol.” The video evidence may also be relevant to an investigation by the Attorney General of the District of Columbia for potential incitement to riot. And it may be relevant down the road to other federal prosecutors. Ultimately, the greatest relevance of these videos will be how parts of the public understands the events of the day, and how history records it.
New videos (taken from Parler) show specific chain of events
Starts with: Trump’s statements to supporters about @Mike_Pence
Leads to: violent threats to the Vice President during siege of Capitol.
This is chilling.
Full 10-min video we produced is available @just_security. pic.twitter.com/3hXGWUzaHN
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) January 25, 2021
Watch the video above.