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  • I think I heard the crowd chanting, and I realized that I that they were encouraging what it sounded like, um, people to break into a door.

  • Um, so I at that point, I made the choice, uh, to climb the center scaffolding that was set up for the inauguration.

  • Um, that's typically where, Like photos and the dead on cameras air.

  • Um, because I needed to see what was going on.

  • So I climbed up, like, two levels on the scaffolding on.

  • And, um, sure enough, that's where I could see people who had broken through the door.

  • They were pepper spring.

  • The police.

  • They were throwing objects in there.

  • The crowd was like passing them big objects like a big ladder.

  • They passed to them at the same time.

  • There was that group that was breaking into the window, climbing in and out of the building.

  • I saw chair come out, I saw door come out.

  • Um, there were some police who were still there from earlier, and they were above the scene, and they were pretty much just standing there, which was pretty crazy to see.

  • Um, so eventually a different I think a different force showed up.

  • They were in, um, like green kind of fatigues, and that's that.

  • That's when they actually started to really fire flash bangs into the crowd and actually send some real tear gas out there.

  • And that's that's what that photo is.

  • That's the moment when the flash bang went off.

  • And, um, you know, for a split second lit up the whole the whole scene, Um, so that that's how I got that photo.

  • Um, and some I think people don't realize that when we're working on the ground, we didn't have any cell phone service out there.

  • So you're pretty much alone in terms of what you know is going on, you only know what's going on in front of you.

I think I heard the crowd chanting, and I realized that I that they were encouraging what it sounded like, um, people to break into a door.

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