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New Findings after the First Day of the January 6th Committee Hearings

New information about the role of the Proud Boys came out after the start of the January 6th Hearings on June 9th, 2022:

• Caroline Edwards and Nick Quested testified as to what they experienced on Jan. 6th.
• Nick Quested provided new video on the Proud Boys from the documentary that he was shooting at the time.
• On June 17th, after the Hearings started, the New York Times completed an investigative video tracking the movements and roles of several key members of the Proud Boys during the insurrection.

Taken together the new information shows:

• The Proud Boys played a key tactical role.
  • They had a special command structure for Jan. 6th.
  • They formed into teams.
  • The NYT video shows the leaders falling back when progress stalls and then redirecting Proud Boys to different attack points.
• Evidence suggests the attack was well-planned.
  • They marched directly to the Capitol, not to Trump's speech.
  • The statement of the Proud Boy called Milkshake "...let's go storm the Capitol with Nordean"
  • The statement by the woman in front of the Capitol with the Proud Boys, “I’m not allowed to say what is going to happen today, because everyone’s just going to have to watch for themselves, but it’s going to happen, something’s gonna happen one way or the other."
• The size of the Proud Boys contingent was considerable, about 300.
• The Capitol Police were outnumbered at least 50 to 1.
• According to an informant, the Proud Boys would have killed Pence.

Veritas Aeterna (talk) 00:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Key Citations

• Boys Led Major Breaches of Capitol on Jan. 6, Video Investigation Finds - The New York Times
• Documentary footage from filmmaker shows evidence that Jan. 6 was a planned attack
• Three Characters at the Heart of an Unsettling Jan. 6 Narrative - New York Times
• 17 requests for backup in 78 minutes - Washington Post
• Transcript of the First Jan 6 Committee Hearing - NPR

If you have not watched the New York Times investigative video in the first article, I strongly recommend it. I have put much of these new findings together. There are multiple references to the NYT video, each providing different times in the video for the events or text cited, but the difference in times does not seem to show up unless you try to go to the YouTube video of the NYT investigative report. Veritas Aeterna (talk) 23:47, 24 August 2022 (UTC)