Who is this guy and has he been arrested? #Helmetboy
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Of all the questions that I have about the Capitol riots, and I have plenty, this is my biggest. This gentleman is a mystery which needs to be answered. The above photo which is a screengrab of the forty minutes of video taken by a known ANTIFA member. Here is my initial screengrab to put this picture in context.
Why is this seeming nut job surrounded by police you might ask. Well that is the beginning of the mystery. You can see all this on the video so I'll just briefly explain. As you look at this frame, to the left is a large room in the Capitol, filled with protestors. So where does Mystery Man come from?
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Mystery Man came from behind the police from what appears to be a "secure" hallway.
Shortly after this the crowd makes its way down the hallway on the opposite side of the large room they are packed into. In this JADEN X video we lose site of the MM, though he is captured by other videos moving with the crowd.
The crowd his headed towards the Speaker's Lobby just outside the House Chambers where House members are being evacuated. It is outside the glass door to the lobby where Ashli Babbitt will, in a short time be shot and killed.
Next we see MM (in this film) outside those doors inciting the crowd. Note the broken window behind the policeman.
watch and pause video at 1:40 mark.
You notice that someone, appears to be the man with yellow flag around him, handed MM the helmet to finish breaking the window. What you do not see in this JAYDEN X video is how the window was originally broken.
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In fact, while House Members were still in the Speaker's Lobby, trying to leave, MM made his way to the front of the crowd and broke the windows. Then someone handed him a helmet to finish the job. There is also the man in the orange jacket using a club to help. Obviously others were, at some point, breaking windows too since the window where Ashli Babbitt is going threw when she is shot is to the right. (SEE UPDATE BELOW)
Now resume the JAYDEN X video to see the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. What you probably do no notice is that MM seems to have left the scene. As John Sullivan (the guy taking the video) swing to show Babbitt falling, the guy in the orange jacket goes back out of camera, but MM, who moments before was standing next to him is not there.
But he is. While the camera was focused on the gun on the other side of the glass partition, MM had made his way towards the stairs, getting ready to exit stage right, so to speak. (SEE UPDATE BELOW)
The man with the backpack in this fuzzy picture standing on the other side of Babbitt now laying on the floor is MM.
We know this because he was captured just after the shot on another video. You will also notice that the lobby is empty of House members and is probably the reason the police were leaving that area. The tactical unit was actually going down the stairs when the shot as fired.
What does MM do next? He makes his way down the stairs where he has a conversation with a policeman. Probably explaining why he is leaving or...who knows. Notice two other people who were at the event are also leaving. If you go back you will note that the one with the stocking cap was very vociferous to the police moments before.
But MM did not immediately leave. In fact he went right around the corner and apparently changed outfits.
Or more likely he was hiding his distinctive fur cap, and perhaps donning his coat, which he had been wearing earlier while he called policeman at the DOJ building "faggots."
Who is this guy? And why did it take over a week for the FBI to start looking for him?
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@Climateaudit Steve McIntyre
In fact he was the one who broke the window which Babbitt climbed through. He was actually the one who the Capitol Policeman was initially pointing his gun at before Babbitt climbed through.
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