1 Infiltration not invasion (TLDR go to last post)
First, none of the things reported in the news happened anywhere near the Patriots at the Capitol. Most of us were oblivious to anything except the emergency vehicles coming in until they got word through family/friends/social media. I was standing at a food truck on the corner when the emergency vehicles started going past us and of course I noticed them but I even had to point them out to others. No one was paying attention. A few of us had heard a loud noise a few minutes earlier although it sounded like a bang, I didn't immediately think it was a gunshot. I looked over to the capitol and there was absolutely no reaction or movements from anywhere in the crowd.
When my daughter texted me about what they were saying on the news, I told her I didn't know what they talking about. I was looking directly at the capitol nothing was happening; people were just standing around. As time went on while I was talking to her, I finally saw some police/military in black uniforms come out of the capitol but it looked like they simply came out and asked people to move down a level on the steps and for a short amount of time they stood around the perimeter of that level. There was no chaos. Patriots just moved down a level. No one had to leave. They never made anyone climb down from the scaffolding some had climbed up on to be higher. I remember thinking if something bad was happening they would clear us out but that never happened while I was there.