Joseph, a pro-Trump supporter, was at the protest in D.C. on the day of the Women's Equality March. He was in front of the Capitol, and saw Antifa try to break into the building. He jumped into action to defend the doors of the building from being attacked by the Antifa.
00:00:00.000Hello and welcome to this special episode of the John Henry Weston Show, where I'm very pleased to bring you one of the protesters, one of the pro-Trump protesters, who was actually at the rally and then in front of the Capitol building, actually defending the Capitol building doors from being smashed in by what seems to be Antifa playing a false flag operation.
00:01:45.120I think the election was stolen from him.
00:01:47.840I think there's no way Biden got 80, was 81 million votes.
00:01:52.200There's just so much rampant evidence of fraud that I had to come out and say something about it.
00:01:56.520Now, you played a very interesting role because there's a lot of video out there of people smashing windows.
00:02:04.020And there's one particular video that's most interesting.
00:02:07.620A lot of people are screaming Antifa, Antifa, Antifa, while a guy is using some kind of a baton to kind of smash an upper window there.
00:02:18.440And then someone tackles him and brings him down.
00:02:21.440I want to get your perspective on that because you faced something very similar where you also heard the crowd chanting Antifa and were defending.
00:04:33.100We joined the march, you know, as people were walking up the—I forget what that's called—the stretch from the obelisk up to the Capitol.
00:04:43.520And, you know, we just kind of merged in with the crowd there.
00:04:46.220You know, I thought we were just going around to the stage where there was going to be another set of speeches in the protest.
00:04:52.060And then, I guess, people started throwing fireworks at the police.
00:04:57.520I'm not sure who was throwing the fireworks.
00:05:00.040And then I saw the police attacking people in the crowd.
00:05:04.040And then the crowd got upset that they were being attacked.
00:05:07.420And they ended up just pushing past the police into the courtyard at the Capitol.
00:05:11.880It really is quite something with such a large crowd to try and figure out who's who and what's what, particularly with some of what some people are calling false flag operations, where Antifa's inciting the crowd.
00:05:25.160There's some incredible video, which we've seen from Epoch Times headed out, where they do kind of an analysis of the type of instigation that seemed to go on.
00:05:36.720And you had people egging on the crowd and then doing a lot of the big time damage themselves and then backing away and letting happen whatever happened thereafter.
00:05:44.900And that seemed to happen right with the shooting of that young lady, the former veteran.
00:06:18.160I think the top of it was like four stories.
00:06:20.260The lower part was only a couple stories.
00:06:23.040I actually saw something I was surprised to see was there was like little old ladies with walking canes who climbed up the scaffolding.
00:06:30.060I held their canes for them and stuff, but, you know, then once you're, once you're actually up on the scaffolding, it just joins with where the stairs go down normally.
00:06:42.820So, you know, then you could actually leave if you wanted to or just stay up at the top of the terrace, which is where I was.
00:06:50.300This is where the people were that were trying to break through to trying to break these windows that you were guarding.
00:06:54.300Yeah, they would keep coming from time to time because it was more space out up top where people could actually come and go up the stairs and get there.
00:07:11.260I didn't want us to be portrayed in the media the way we are as we're just, you know, looking like crazy rioters trying to smash things.
00:07:19.580Because I figured even if we did make it, if the group moved into the Capitol and occupied it or something, it should be peaceful.
00:07:25.980And I think, you know, that's what a lot of people thought they were just planning on going and standing there and not smashing up the place, which is what some people were trying to do.
00:07:34.840Right. There have been countless sit-ins at the Capitol, although that might be new to some people.
00:07:40.440There's very often sit-ins at the Capitol.
00:07:43.580But this one is being described by Joe Biden as Pearl Harbor.
00:07:50.400You having been there yourself and seeing it and perhaps its aftermath, can you tell us what you thought of what was going on?
00:07:57.780Well, so one thing, I saw the media was saying that everyone was armed and marching there.
00:08:02.660I didn't see anyone there who was armed.
00:08:05.180My friend says he saw one guy with a knife.
00:08:09.460You know, the only thing they were armed with was the flagpoles that they had.
00:08:14.520And I think a couple of them grabbed weapons off of the police and grabbed the riot shields off the police.
00:08:21.460In fact, I have a video of that happening.
00:08:23.220Actually, there was one old lady who was up there, and she didn't even know that we weren't supposed to be up there, that we had gone through the barricade at that point.
00:08:33.240I guess she had come up the stairs later.
00:08:35.200So she was asking me, well, what's the deal with the police?
00:08:52.020So, I mean, what is being portrayed right now is just an unbelievable picture.
00:08:58.020So it's very good to talk to you because you're giving us perspective from on the ground as one of the people actually defending the Capitol building from damage.
00:09:07.180What are your thoughts for America right now as to tell them really what's happened as opposed to what they're getting from the mainstream media right now?
00:09:14.220Well, this isn't just some violent mob that's trying to overthrow the government.
00:09:18.960It was a group of protesters who, I think some of them got a little bit hot-headed when, especially when Antifa started instigating things.
00:09:27.300Not to say they wouldn't have done anything on their own, but it certainly wouldn't have been as bad.
00:09:32.780And I think they were there for a peaceful protest.
00:09:35.540But the stage just seemed to disappear.
00:09:38.160No one knew where we were supposed to go once we got down to the Capitol.
00:09:41.680It seems like a lot of things were put into this to try to make it look as bad as possible.
00:09:47.180Well, Joseph, thank you so much for being with us.
00:09:51.240I will tell you about the police officer who died.
00:09:55.480I didn't see him get beat or anything, but I will say as an added bonus thing, I did see a guy with a fire extinguisher spraying up near the doorway earlier.
00:10:08.280And then I had heard some commotion later on about how a guy had his, someone had tried to take a police officer's, I guess it was a mace cannon or something, and pulled away from him.
00:10:22.800Ended up dragging him out into the crowd.
00:10:25.300And all I heard from the crowd was people yelling, safe passage, safe passage, saying, don't hurt the police officer.
00:10:31.940Just take his weapon and let him pass.
00:10:34.380And so I didn't actually see what happened to the police officer, but from what I had heard, it sounded like they just ushered him out of the crowd and didn't really hurt him.
00:10:43.880So I was surprised to hear later that he actually died.
00:10:46.660I guess someone hit him with the fire extinguisher.
00:10:48.620Yeah, there's video now of a fellow throwing the fire extinguisher at police and it hitting an officer on the head.
00:10:59.640It seems that's from the video that it seems.
00:11:01.680And one of the officers died, Officer Sicknick, passed away tragically in this thing.
00:11:08.140And so they are searching for that villain who actually perpetrated that crime.
00:11:13.140And so for America to look at this now and see the tragedies, the tragedies of death, we are, I mean, this is absolutely horrendous that this happened.
00:11:21.220But here you are in a protest with over a million people, even marching to the Capitol.
00:11:30.600To see what went on from the ground is very, very important because this is being called the greatest tragedy America has ever seen and so on and so forth.
00:11:38.640And yet that's not the reality on the ground.
00:11:40.740While there was some violence indeed, and it's tragic that there was, while there was this smashing into the Capitol, there's people like yourself who tried to prevent that.
00:11:49.540God bless you, and we'll see you next time on The John Henry Weston Show.