Although numerous people have been charged and held without bail for the events of January 6, 2021 not a single one of those defendants has been charged with insurrection or treason. These defendants, charged with trespassing or property crimes, are in prison following a “shock and awe” prosecutorial approach.
Revolver News reports, in a detailed article from December 2021, that there are numerous individuals—clearly identified in publicly sourced video—who played significant roles in setting up and implementing the storming of the Capitol who have never been charged, and who in at least one case, have been removed from the FBI’s most wanted list. (https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/)
The most famous of these is Ray Epps, who spent the evening of Jan. 5 going through the streets organizing Trump supporters in town for the rally the next day to “go into the Capitol.” The morning of Jan. 6, he told people assembling for Trump’s speech and rally outside the White House, that they should head to the Capitol as soon as Trump concluded his speech. And when they arrived at the Capitol, they were able to enter the restricted area of its grounds through a location where the fence had been removed by a show of force with Epps at its head, a breach of the perimiter launched just a minute after Capitol Police began responding to reports of what were supposedly pipe bombs at the headquarters of the two main parties.
Ray Epps, about whose actions on Jan. 6 readers can find more details in the Revolver article, was placed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted List” on Jan. 8, 2021, where he was still listed in late June 2021, when the New York Times and Revolver both published stories wondering why he had not yet been charged. Pressure was brought to bear on the FBI to respond to this conundrum. Their response was peculiar.
They removed his name from the Most Wanted List, and investigated citizen reporters trying to learn more about Epps themselves.
Revolver launched a study of footage to determine other people that Epps coordinated with on Jan. 6, with shocking results.
The apparent “team” that took down the first set of metal barricades surrounding the Capitol made its move at around 12:50 p.m., while Trump was still speaking. Members of that team removed fencing and “Restricted Area” signs, leading some rally goers arriving later to believe that the west side lawn of the Capitol was open to pedestrians (as it usually was). The breach was formed at the entrance to the Capitol grounds that rally attendees would first reach on marching to the Capitol. One of the fence removers was waiting at the site since 12:31 p.m., 20 minutes before the breach and 17 minutes before the arrival of the Proud Boys.
Also waiting outside the entrance at 12:31 was a man who would play a leading role in directing people toward and into the Capitol. Known as “#NWScaffoldCommander” (or ScaffoldCommander in the Revolver piece), he mounted the press scaffold designed for Inauguration Day photographers. From his command post, he barked incessant orders through a megaphone for people to “move forward.” Once the Capitol doors were opened, he commanded: “Okay we’re in! We’re in! Come on! We gotta fill up the Capitol! Come on! Come now! We need help! We gotta fill up the Capitol!” To what sort of person would filling the Capitol be an end in itself? When another man on the scaffold spoke by bullhorn to raise issues of cancel culture and election reform, ScaffoldCommander insisted that this was unnecessary—"Tell them to move forward! That’s all they need to know right now!”
