Witness to Rioters Jumping Through Capitol Window: ‘Like Out of a Zombie Movie’ | PEOPLE.com
Watching rioters jump through shattered windows at the U.S. Capitol reminded photographer Kevin Dietsch of a zombie movie. …
… Walking down a hallway that leads to the Senate, Dietsch wondered why the officer said it was so dangerous. “We didn’t just believe her,” he says.
Then, on the first floor, he heard banging on the windows — a police officer in front of him started rushing toward the window. “Right in front of me, a brick or rock went flying through the window,” he says. “Next thing I knew, the whole window came smashing through.”
At that moment, the officer reached for his belt. “I thought he was grabbing his gun — I thought he was going to open and start firing,” says Dietsch, who ran closer to the officer and took a photo as the first protestor jumped through the window. From about six feet away, the officer sprayed the rioter in the face with mace or pepper spray.
The second rioter jumped through, touched the ground, and paused with his arms out.
“He looked like a villain or superhero busting through a wall,” Dietsch recalls. He watched as dozens of rioters followed.
“It was like something out of a zombie movie. Where hordes of these rioters just kept coming and coming. It seems like one after another…. they slowly started coming toward us,” he remembers. …He’s sprayed that stream in such a way that it will keep hitting the seditionist asshole in the face as his downward trajectory continues. He’s also already looking in a different direction. WOW.