Outnumbered PD: No way to get physical

US Capitol Police claim they were outnumbered during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and unable to stop “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley — despite footage showing them calmly trailing the horned-headdress-wearing invader as he walked the halls near the Senate chamber.

According to a timeline — compiled by the Justice Department and upon which Chansley signed off as part of his guilty plea — the Navy vet from Arizona was one of the first 30 rioters to enter the Capitol at around 2:14 p.m.

Despite disobeying orders to leave, Chansley was allowed to climb the stairs to the Senate gallery — where, according to the government, he “scream[ed] obscenities . . . while other rioters flooded the chamber below.”

Chansley later encountered Capitol Police Officer Keith Robishaw, who again asked him to leave. Instead, prosecutors said, the rioter “insisted that others were already on the Senate floor and he was going to join them.”

For several minutes, Robishaw and another officer followed Chansley as he tried to enter the Senate chamber. At one point, video shows Robishaw trying a locked door as Chansley waits patiently alongside. Later, Chansley and the officers pass a group of seven other cops, who seem to pay them no mind.

Chansley and the officers eventually find an unlocked door, and one of the cops holds it open after Chansley lets himself onto the Senate floor. Robishaw then followed Chansley into the chamber as the “Shaman” took the seat on the dais recently occupied by then-Vice President Mike Pence.

In a statement Monday, the Capitol Police pointed The Post to comments by Robishaw in the 2021 HBO documentary “Four Hours at the Capitol.”

“The sheer number of them compared to us, I knew ahead there was no way we could all get physical with them,” Robishaw said, “so I took it upon myself to try to talk to them.”

“The officer is then seen on video walking behind Chansley as Chansley walks into the Senate Chamber,” Capitol Police said. “Moments earlier our officers and agents had to evacuate the Senate Chamber, which was closed to the public, to rush elected officials and staffers to safety. After that, multiple people snuck into the chamber. At any given time, the officer is outnumbered by more than 20 or more people. At this point, it is clear the officer is trying to get everyone out of the Chamber.”

Robishaw recalled: “I walked in behind [Chansley], and that is when I realized I am alone now. I was by myself. I can’t do anything, you know. All I can do is shout orders and if they listen, great, and if they don’t I cannot force them,” Robishaw added: “I am by myself.”