Riots, looting, vandalism, etc.

[Darat]

It’s not as if the police didn’t know where this crowd was moving to, the bloody President told them, and since this was a protest the POTUS was going to speak at do we think there was only a handful of police at the protest? At any protest I’ve been on when a large group moves off the police would (if they let it happen at all) have maintained a cordon around them.

It really does seem to be case that the police actively (by deciding to do nothing) allowed this to happen.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

It’s not as if the police didn’t know where this crowd was moving to, the bloody President told them, and since this was a protest the POTUS was going to speak at do we think there was only a handful of police at the protest? At any protest I’ve been on when a large group moves off the police would (if they let it happen at all) have maintained a cordon around them.

It really does seem to be case that the police actively (by deciding to do nothing) allowed this to happen.

You have to ask yourself, could this have happened so easily if it was a BLM event?

The obvious answer is no. Police wouldn't have allowed it without way more violence.

 

[johnny karate]

Enjoying your sauce, ganders?

*the sound that Pac-Man makes when he dies*

 

[johnny karate]

It’s not as if the police didn’t know where this crowd was moving to, the bloody President told them, and since this was a protest the POTUS was going to speak at do we think there was only a handful of police at the protest? At any protest I’ve been on when a large group moves off the police would (if they let it happen at all) have maintained a cordon around them.

It really does seem to be case that the police actively (by deciding to do nothing) allowed this to happen.

You have to ask yourself, could this have happened so easily if it was a BLM event?

The obvious answer is no. Police wouldn't have allowed it without way more violence.

There have been multiple examples provided of Capitol Police reacting much more swiftly and violently for far less egregious transgressions.

Here’s documentarian Josh Fox being arrested in 2012:
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshfoxfilm/status/1347009256634068994

They sent a dozen officers who responded within 15 minutes. To arrest one man.

Here are the Capitol Police dragging paraplegics out of their wheelchairs during a protest in 2017:
https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1346923176505184257

They arrested 43 people that day. Last night’s tally? 13 arrests.

Meanwhile, here’s a bunch of dudes just casually hanging out at their hotel after carrying out a violent coup attempt:
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1346980282243678209

The vast majority of these people were allowed to just stroll right out of the crime scene and go home. Some of them have already been identified online, and yet they all got to wake up in their own beds this morning and check their social media accounts to see how many likes they got for the selfies they took while committing crimes.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

in all the news of the fascist riot in DC, this shouldn't pass without notice:

Today in LA, white supremacists at the “Stop The Steal” rally attacked a Black woman.

The woman was walking home when 20 people surrounded her, demanding to know who she voted for.

They shoved her, pepper-sprayed her, and punched her in the face before our friends helped her.

Fascist demonstrators in LA attacked a random black woman on the street.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1347233549879939075

 

[Mumbles]

You have to ask yourself, could this have happened so easily if it was a BLM event?

The obvious answer is no. Police wouldn't have allowed it without way more violence.

Capitol police would react far more strongly to Louis Farakhan showing up with a couple of his underlings.

Black Lives Matter, Black Men Cook, probably Lewis Black too.

 

[johnny karate]

in all the news of the fascist riot in DC, this shouldn't pass without notice:



Fascist demonstrators in LA attacked a random black woman on the street.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1347233549879939075

“White supremacists will attack anyone nearby, including local residents just minding their own business.

ESPECIALLY if those residents are Black women. Do you understand why we ask you come out and counter-protest the nazis?

The police do not keep people safe. We keep us safe.“

Hard to argue with this, especially after what we saw happen in D.C. yesterday.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

“White supremacists will attack anyone nearby, including local residents just minding their own business.

ESPECIALLY if those residents are Black women. Do you understand why we ask you come out and counter-protest the nazis?

The police do not keep people safe. We keep us safe.“

Hard to argue with this, especially after what we saw happen in D.C. yesterday.

Yes. Local antifascists aided this woman on the scene, treating her pepperspray injury, and they have already ID'd the guy pinning her arms behind her back and got him fired.

Cops are worthless as usual.

 

[johnny karate]

Yes. Local antifascists aided this woman on the scene, treating her pepperspray injury, and they have already ID'd the guy pinning her arms behind her back and got him fired.

Cops are worthless as usual.

In fairness to the cops, they might have been busy assisting an elderly felon leave the scene of an attempted coup.

 

[Mumbles]

“White supremacists will attack anyone nearby, including local residents just minding their own business.

ESPECIALLY if those residents are Black women. Do you understand why we ask you come out and counter-protest the nazis?

The police do not keep people safe. We keep us safe.“

Hard to argue with this, especially after what we saw happen in D.C. yesterday.

For reference, this has always been true when these ********* start rampaging. I'm still against attacking property in most circumstances (I maintain that it can, on occasion, lead to improvements, but this almost never holds true especially for small, family-owned businesses), but these white supremacists insist on attacking random (or more often, not so random) people caught unaware, which is very different.

One matter about armed antifa is that, when this happens, they'll often be the ones protecting innocent people while police stand there with their thumbs up their backsides.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Meanwhile, the Trump cult media is trying to say that those people who raided the Capitol were anitifa in disguise.

I wonder how they explain that fact that Trump tweeted how much he loves those people.

 

[Cavemonster]

Meanwhile, the Trump cult media is trying to say that those people who raided the Capitol were anitifa in disguise.

I wonder how they explain that fact that Trump tweeted how much he loves those people.

It wasn't a problem when they tried to say his bleach and lightbulb comments referred to real and promising medical treatments and he publicly said it was a joke.

They really don't care about any kind of honesty or conisistency.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Nibo and a photographer who captured the attack said Los Angeles police officers were across the street, but never intervened.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/pro-trump-protesters-attack-black-woman?origin=tuh

Quote from article about the fascists that attacked a random black woman in the streets of LA.

Cops won't lift a finger to stop fascist violence. Wonder why?

 

[johnny karate]

White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea:

A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years.

It’s all good, though. It wasn’t really his fault and he said he was sorry:

Stepanek’s attorney John Bruzek said his client was influenced by social media and political rhetoric characterizing the protesters as dangerous criminals. Stepanek initially believed he was legally justified but has come to see he was wrong and apologized, Bruzek said.

From that same article:

A 20-year-old Black protester who carried an assault rifle through an Iowa City crowd in June has been indicted on a federal charge of illegally possessing a gun while using marijuana. The man, who faces up to 10 years in prison, had already been prosecuted by Johnson County on related charges after the gun was found during a traffic stop following the protest.

White privilege for the win!

 

[portlandatheist]

Law enforcement are surrounding the capital with the same fence types that they are using in Portland Oregon to protect the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. I know this is shocking and horrifying to some of you. I maintain my position that these fences, as imperfect as they are, are a useful tool to law enforcement to protect federal buildings from rioters.

 

[portlandatheist]

Meanwhile, the Trump cult media is trying to say that those people who raided the Capitol were anitifa in disguise.

I wonder how they explain that fact that Trump tweeted how much he loves those people.

and they are very special.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Law enforcement are surrounding the capital with the same fence types that they are using in Portland Oregon to protect the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. I know this is shocking and horrifying to some of you. I maintain my position that these fences, as imperfect as they are, are a useful tool to law enforcement to protect federal buildings from rioters.

so why didn't they have pepper ball guns?
on their own, these fences do little to nothing.

 

[portlandatheist]

so why didn't they have pepper ball guns?
on their own, these fences do little to nothing.

I have no idea why the didn't have pepper ball guns. Seems like it would have been good if they did.
The fences are/were never meant to be on their own, but a tool of law enforcement. Here is a photo for you:
https://thebulwark.com/wheres-congress/
I do not understand the controversy of these fences. It has been a tool of law enforcement and crowd control since forever.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

it's not about the fence, obviously.

 

[Mumbles]

so why didn't they have pepper ball guns?
on their own, these fences do little to nothing.

Well, most of the riot gear is in the hands of Parks, National Guard, and the like, which is why Dolt 45 was able to easily find it when he wanted to attack nonviolent protestors so he could walk across the street and hold a bible upside down.

The fence thing is PortlandAtheist being confused about his own arguments that protecting property from a couple of idiots makes mass violence worthwhile. Obviously doesn't apply to a disorganized terrorist pack trying to overthrow a government, even when the people involved are just a particularly incompetent lynch mob.