>>16541088>I remember there being these elevated platforms that photographers kept using to get a good couple stories in the air so they could take photos of the crowd.I deleted all the pictures I took when I was underneath those scaffold-platforms: too many faces to crop and edit out so i just deleted the pics so i wouldn't accidentally implicate anyone for committing a thoughtcrime. But let me tell you: it was hell. You read stories about how people in asia die in droves during a human crush: the human mob, compelled by a cattle-like madness of crowds, forcefully pushes itself against an immovable barrier (like, oh, say, perchance, the wall of the fucking Capitol building), thus suffocating to death everyone against the wall while people hundreds of feet away are pushing and pushing without even realizing that they are asphyxiating their own comrades to death.
It was very nearly a disaster like that.
We were crammed in there, under that scaffold, chest-to-chest, armpit-to-face, so that we could barely breathe much less move. It took me about an hour to move a few hundred feet.
Who knows how many thousands of us were crammed under that scaffold, but we escaped it without major incident.
Sprinkle a little tear gas into the mix and you begin to realize what it was actually like.
