defenses and shouting at or attempting to convert us, men alleging to be veterans told us they fought for this country and were fighting for it again. one man tried to start a chant of four more years. another shouted do not attack us. we re not black lives matter, as if political affiliation is how we determine when to use force. a man in a qanon hoodie ex-claims this is the time to choose which side of history to be on. a man shoz shirt reads god, guns and trump stood behind him silently holding a trump flag. a new man came to the front and fixated on me continually berating me telling me to take off my gear and give it to him to sew solidarity with we the people or we re going to run over you, his voice cracking with the strain and volume of his threats. he continued do you think your little pea shooter guns are going to stop this crowd? no, we re going in that building. eventually there is a surge in the crowd, the fence buckled and broke apart action and we were