While four individuals assembled the ‘prop,’ one team member walked four blocks away to a coffee shop across the street from FBI headquarters.
A five-person team assembled the infamous gallows just west of the Capitol Reflecting Pool as dawn broke on Jan. 6, 2021, new Capitol Police security video released on Oct. 13 shows.
While four members of the group assembled the prop that would become an iconic Jan. 6 image, one man wearing a trench coat and long scarf walked four blocks north to a coffee shop that is kitty-corner from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, the Pro America Report and Open.ink announced.
Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and host of the Pro America Report podcast, discovered footage of the gallows construction crew while reviewing U.S. Capitol Police security video made available by a House committee.
A video mashup was posted on the Open.ink website showing members of the so-called “gallows gang” moving sections of the structure on a cart to its resting place at the tip of the National Mall with a direct line of sight to the Capitol.
“About 6:32 in the morning, they showed up with a trailer, a hand-pulled trailer full of wood,” Greg Phillips, the founder of Open.ink, told host Stephen K. Bannon on War Room. “They pull it out onto the mall.
“By now, it’s 6:40 or so in the morning,” Mr. Phillips said. “They manufacture this thing. One of the guys leaves to go get coffee. That’s why we called him Mr. Coffee.”
Wearing a dark trench coat, fedora, and long white scarf, and using a walking stick, the “particularly distinctive” Mr. Coffee walked about four blocks on Third Street Northwest and stopped at Jack’s Famous Deli for coffee.
Jack’s is just down the block and across the street from the FBI headquarters.
“How would somebody even know this [shop] was even there?” Mr. Phillips asked.
Mr. Martin used Capitol Police CCTV to track the movements of the gallows crew as they approached the green space just west of the Reflecting Pool. The crew finished assembling the structure.
A crossbeam and nylon noose were added later in the day, Jan. 6 defendant and video researcher William Pope told The Epoch Times.
