I don't think its an op. They had people spread all over the building when he "appears behind police lines", there are others with helmets in the crowd, in the chaos of a shooting he complies with police and gets out of the way, just in a different direction, and then he dips out because he realizes someone just got killed next to him and he's been recorded at the front of the mob. All of this seems pretty plausible in that rabid crowd and chaos. Honestly the most suspicious thing is that he wears his mask for part of it.
Edit: Around 1:54 in the second clip, you see the woman get shot and him right behind her (he's the one with the backpack). She falls with him between her and the stairs and police immediately try to clear the area around her, sending him down the stairs.
It wasn't really a line though, the line was at the door and they abandoned it when they didn't need to hold it anymore. It looks more like the cops were just in the stairwell rather than guarding the stairs. Then around 1:54 in the second clip you can see he's right behind the woman who got shot, already on the stairs. She falls back onto the top of the stairs and the police try to clear an area around her to provide medical attention and rather than have him step over her and whoever is providing medical attention to go back into the crowd, they send him and one or two other protestors down the stairs.
I don't think its an op. They had people spread all over the building when he "appears behind police lines", there are others with helmets in the crowd, in the chaos of a shooting he complies with police and gets out of the way, just in a different direction, and then he dips out because he realizes someone just got killed next to him and he's been recorded at the front of the mob. All of this seems pretty plausible in that rabid crowd and chaos. Honestly the most suspicious thing is that he wears his mask for part of it.
Edit: Around 1:54 in the second clip, you see the woman get shot and him right behind her (he's the one with the backpack). She falls with him between her and the stairs and police immediately try to clear the area around her, sending him down the stairs.
He dipped out behind police lines, though.
It wasn't really a line though, the line was at the door and they abandoned it when they didn't need to hold it anymore. It looks more like the cops were just in the stairwell rather than guarding the stairs. Then around 1:54 in the second clip you can see he's right behind the woman who got shot, already on the stairs. She falls back onto the top of the stairs and the police try to clear an area around her to provide medical attention and rather than have him step over her and whoever is providing medical attention to go back into the crowd, they send him and one or two other protestors down the stairs.
Is that necessarily sus considering how lackadaisical and/or outnumbered the cops were generally?
It's definitely still sus, it's just not conclusive.