And are you kidding me? What if the mob had caught AOC or Pelosi? That would have turned from a "paper cut" to a political murder during an insurrection.
To be fair, that's not who they were chanting about hanging on the gallows they built. And, frankly, changing the outcome the way they wanted made uncooperative Republican targets more valuable.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congressman-steve-scali...