According to the National Archives, video footage taken in the US capital appears to show a group of Trump supporters being locked in a hotel by police in the nation’s capital after Wednesday’s protest on Capitol Hill over the election certification.
As the group of presidential supporters watched from the hotel lobby, a police officer could be seen trying to lock the group inside by sticking an iron bar between the two front doors, then waving sarcastically to onlookers through a set of Windows.
People shouted to the police, “It’s a fire hazard,” but to no avail.
One woman said, “He’s a fire hazard for us.”
“We can’t get out now,” one man continued.
The video, posted to Twitter by Vincent James of the Red Elephant on Friday morning, quickly went viral.
On Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser reportedly issued a 6 p.m. curfew and ordered police to arrest anyone found within a six-block radius of the building or its grounds. Bowser then declared a city-wide state of emergency for 15 days.
Police in the capital responded to the parliament building, eventually using tear gas against protesters who had gathered outside.
Bowser’s Metropolitan Police’s response to the unrest has been questioned by conservatives across the country, who have sought to compare the mayor’s response to the long-running violence in the city last summer fomented by members of the Black Life movement and Antifa. Some also believe that agitator members of the two militant groups, responsible for inciting the violence at the parliament building, have infiltrated the crowd.
Bowser has previously given support to the far-left Black Lives Matter movement, renaming a stretch of Northwest 16th Street as the Black Lives Matter Plaza in honor of the group, while repeatedly attacking President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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