The Justice for J6 rally was yesterday. Organized as a way to bring attention to the 60 or so January 6 rioters who are still incarcerated, the event was pumped up by the Legacy media into some sort of existential threat to the Republic.
If you watched, read or listened to any of the breathless coverage during the run-up to Saturday you would have gotten the impression that a vast army of MAGA rubes, white supremacists and other ne’er-do-wells were about to decend on the District of Columbia like a plague of heavily armed locusts.
At the order of San Fran Nan, fencing went back up around the Capitol building. The Capitol and DC police departments prepared for violence, blocking streets and sidewalks with Jersey barriers and garbage trucks.
So, after all that hype, you’d have expected a huge crowd, lots of violence and hundreds of arrests. It didn’t turn out that way.
Around 700 people showed, and at one point the media outnumbered the protestors by a wide margin.
What’s more, what appears to be a goodly percentage of the crowd were undercover federal agents and local police.
If it wasn’t for the conspicuous lack of tattoos I’d have said the duochebags above were troops, instead I have to conclude that they are Feds of some stripe.
Then there was this clown.
Someone in the crowd noticed he had a gun and reported it to the capitol police. The cops moved in and surrounded him. After seeing what appears to be a badge, the cop asks the clown if he was undercover, the clown says no, I’m just here. At that point, the riot squad forms a wedge and escorts the clown out of the crowd. As of this writing the clown had been charged with a violation of 40 U.S. Code § 5104 – Unlawful activities.
All told, there were four arrests, the clown above, some dummy with a knife and a couple of disorderly conducts.