Media Silent as Leftist Protesters Breach Capitol Barricades—Again

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mainstream media’s silence is deafening. While Americans were once told that crossing barricades at the U.S. Capitol was tantamount to sedition, leftist protesters did just that on Friday—and the establishment press collectively shrugged.

Ahead of Saturday’s military parade, a group of anti-Trump demonstrators, many of them military veterans, surged past a bike rack perimeter near the Capitol. Capitol Police responded swiftly, and several individuals were arrested, including one Vietnam veteran using a walker.

While the breach was smaller in scale than the January 6, 2021, protests, it operated under the same principle: forced entry onto federal grounds. But because the ideological affiliations of the protesters aligned with left-wing orthodoxy, there has been little public outrage or breathless commentary from corporate media outlets.

According to WRC-TV, “A group of military veterans and their families gathered in front of the Supreme Court, demanding that taxpayer dollars for Saturday’s military parade and for putting troops in Los Angeles should be used for housing, health care and food, instead.”

“Some of those demonstrators crossed the street to the U.S. Capitol, where they are accused of breaching a bicycle rack perimeter. Some of them also may face charges of assault on police officers and resisting arrest,” the station reported.

One of the activists arrested, Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a member of a radical anti-war group, used the moment to attack President Donald Trump’s military parade. “It feels like this whole dog-and-pony show that the president is trying to make about the Army is actually about him,” she said.
“And it’s actually a distraction from the fact that his administration is doing everything that they can to cut lifesaving services that veterans and our communities rely on.”

Her claims, predictably, are not supported by reality. President Trump has consistently prioritized veterans’ healthcare and military funding—an inconvenient truth for activists who rely on emotionally charged rhetoric over facts.

Still, the left’s double standard was on full display Friday.

Footage from the protest shows Capitol Police struggling to contain demonstrators who pushed through security barricades.
“LOCK THEM ALL UP in the DC gulag for TWO YEARS! Those are the rules!” conservative commentator Nick Sortor posted on X, highlighting the hypocrisy in how the justice system has treated Jan. 6 protesters versus far-left agitators.
He followed up with another post showing protesters being led away by authorities: “SOLITARY CONFINEMENT! NEVER FORGET J13!”

Despite the footage and clear parallels to previous Capitol disturbances, the media blackout has been near-total. CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post have all but ignored the story.

Other users on X weren’t so quiet:

No, this wasn’t January 6 redux. But imagine for a moment if Trump supporters had done the same thing. Would the networks have shrugged it off? Would the arrests have been portrayed as a minor inconvenience? Or would there have been breaking news segments, teary testimonies, and nonstop outrage?

We all know the answer.

As always, the left’s political violence is either excused or erased. Meanwhile, Trump supporters from Jan. 6 are still languishing in pretrial detention, many in solitary confinement, for doing far less than what transpired Friday in D.C.

It’s not about the breach. It’s about who’s doing the breaching.