Highly Trained and Violent Provocateurs in Crowds on Jan. 6, US Capitol Police Captain Testifies

Highly Trained and Violent Provocateurs in Crowds on Jan. 6, US Capitol Police Captain Testifies
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Joseph M. Hanneman
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Provocateurs infiltrated the crowd that marched to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) official testified during a criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on Jan. 11.

“Isn’t it true that you had a lot of people, a large quantity of people walking down two streets that dead-ended at the Capitol?” Bradford Geyer, one of the lawyers representing defendant Richard Barnett, asked Capt. Carneysha Mendoza, the official.
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