Rioters Return to the Scene and Face Angry Counter-Protesters
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullock. I'm here with Jared Poland, |
| 0:03.5 | who bravely went down to the mall yesterday to cover for us the January 6 rioters who returned |
| 0:10.2 | to the scene of the crime to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the attempted insurrection. |
| 0:15.5 | Jared, I sent you down there with a mission to cover it. |
| 0:18.0 | Turns out it wasn't as crazy as I anticipated. |
| 0:21.6 | People, if you stick around, you're going to get like a really great comprehensive |
| 0:24.5 | video. |
| 0:24.9 | But Jared, give us a brief summary of what you saw. |
| 0:26.9 | So there was about 100 pro-Jan 6 protesters as well as about, yeah, that was that |
| 0:33.3 | was it. |
| 0:33.6 | There's a lot of media there as well, a lot of Capitol Police. |
| 0:36.8 | And then there was about 30 to 50 counter protesters. |
| 0:40.0 | I talked to people on both sides. |
| 0:41.9 | There's a lot of interesting people out there. |
| 0:44.5 | Well, I saw the video. |
| 0:46.8 | It's great. |
| 0:47.9 | I encourage people to stick around for the totality of it because the people who came to counter protest were maybe punchier than the actual |
| 0:55.4 | people who were there to celebrate January 6th. The people were celebrating there included |
| 0:59.6 | people who actually had been arrested, who rioted, who were pardoned by Trump. The whole thing's |
| 1:04.5 | wild. It kind of is grotesque to see these people glorify that day. It kind of gives you a little |
| 1:10.6 | bit of hope to see people turn out to say, you know what? Fuck you guys for doing it. Jared, thank you for doing this. Everyone, stick around, watch the whole video, subscribe to the feed where you get great stuff like this. And if you become a subscriber, a paying subscriber, you can support more work for Jared, who is the guy that we sent to do the most ridiculous projects in and around D.C. So please become a bullet subscriber. Why are you out here today? I'm here for Donald Trump. I'm here basically for a five-year anniversary. I was there during January 6th. We're here for Ashley Babette and a couple other people that we lost. And, you know, I'm here fighting with the proud boys. And I'm here just putting up the good fight, you know. When you think of that day, what does it make you think about? We were set up, you know, it was supposed to be an amazing day and we're set up by the FBI. You know, other people pretended to be us and it was supposed to be a great day, but it was a horrible day. |
| 2:01.7 | You know, it was just a fun day, like a tour, basically, and they got set up, so I feel bad for them, you know. Luckily, I didn't have to go to prison, but I'm here because all the people that did have to go to prison. I was in the gulag for many months. I'm one of those that was hunted down. 140 Republican congressmen were going to object that day, and I believe it was 12 senators |
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