On 1/2/23 9:33 AM, mINE109 wrote:
On 1/1/23 12:17 PM, ScottW wrote:
A good question....we need answered.
A dead issue you keep flogging. What makes you think Epps had the
power and proximity to cause a riot?
https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20220121_RayEpps.pdf
Oh, yeah, you don't follow links:
[Epps]
We got there. There's a couple hundred people there, probably. The
1-- observed a guy over arguing with the police, and there was a line of police. There was a line of police across there, and this guy was
arguing with the police. Didn't understandit. There was a few megaphones
there, people trying to - you know, there was somebody screaming about
-oh, what's the guy's name? Screaming about one guy, and then somebody
else screaming about antifa, Ef antifa, all that kind of stuff. And then
people wanting to fight with BLM. And just, like, I can't believe this
is going on. These aren't - - are these Trump supporters? And what it
was, I don't believe they were Trump supporters. I believe that they
were trying to get Trump supporters to - - to back their cause.
So I- - I tried to deescalate it. I went over to the gentleman. Well,
he's not a gentleman. went over to the guy that calls himself Baked
Alaska and had words with him, that this was not what we're about. We
need to stay focused. You guys are -- are not right. You shouldn't be
doing this with the police. He was saying that the police broke their
oath, you know, calling them all kind of names and stuff. And I'm sure
you can go to their body cams and - -and find everything I was saying.
...I was trying to -- to get some common ground. This guy was trying to
turn people against me. I didn't -- I don't know if I saw it there on
that one, but he was calling me Boomer, and it's his - - his
generation's fault that we're in the position we're in.
I got caught up in the moment. I said that. -I want to fight with
anybody. I didn't want any violence.
as - - as you can tell, I didn't I was trying to prevent. If
you had footage, body cam footage from the police, you would even see
more of me trying to stop that kind of stuff.
...The Capitol is the people's House, and the rotunda- - people can go
into the rotunda and -- and see what's happening there. My vision was
get as many people in there as we can and surround it, be there, let
them know that we're not happy with the -- with what - - what has
happened, and that was it. No violence.
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