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On the West side of the Capitol building, shortly thereafter, there are videos of police and extremists exchanging chemical spray. This is at 1:15 p.m.

At 1:19 p.m., there is video of police training pepper ball guns and stun grenade launchers on the protesters. You can hear demonstrators shouting, “Peaceful protest!” repeatedly.

There is still raucous chanting and people are upset, but it is still fairly under control. It is not yet a “riot.”

Then, the stun grenades start flying. This video of a flash bang being launched directly at a protester is at 1:25 p.m. You can hear the crowd booing the police.

“Keep them coming motherf***ers,” a man yells before a stun grenade is launched at him.

While the videos do not capture the entire picture of the events of January 6th, they certainly add a more nuanced view of how the riots appear to have escalated. It can certainly be argued that if the police had fired indiscriminately into a Black Lives Matter protest, the media would not have been surprised if that protest had escalated into a riot.

But since the American media has nothing but antipathy for Trump supporters, it routinely fails to scrutinize the complicated dynamics of the January 6th event, as well as the roles of extremists, agitators and FBI informants in turning the political protest into something much darker.

Another video from 1:25 p.m. shows the crowd being hit with flash bangs and a woman complaining about the police attacking “Blue Lives Matter” supporters.