txwxman said:aggiehawg said:I used to feel that way until I saw the footage. Even the cops knew they had been set up by leadership. They knew that shooting into the crowd was only going to inflame the crowd even more.tsuag10 said:
Question here that will probably get me flamed:
Isn't it reasonable for us to say that this large, sweeping pardon for all J6rs is a little bit concerning since there are some of these guys who actually were violent?
I'm fully aware that 99% of these people should never have been jailed, but did Trump's pardons include the actual guys who were involved in violence? Forgive me if this has already been discussed.
FWIW, I fully support the idea of pardoning the J6rs, I'm asking about these certain individuals.
Guy climbing up the side of huge wall to the terrace. Yes he shouldn't have been there. Cop could have just grabbed him, pulled him over the railing and arrested him. But what did that officer do?
Pushed him off, to fall straight down over thirty feet on his back. That cop was surrounded by other cops. One guy could have been taken down, hands zip tied behind his back, ankles tied together and placed aside.
There was a reason there were several cop suicides among those there in the weeks that followed. They knew what they did was wrong.
Every fatality and 99% of the injuries* that day were to people at the Capitol and not cops.
*Not to say the cops suffered no injuries, just that many of those were self-inflicted. They could not tell the direction of the wind and that shooting tear gas canisters would blow right back at them. Also set off tear gas canisters by accident within their own positions. Truly Keystone Cops crap.
Cool victim blaming story. The law and order image never fit the right anyway.
Uhh