Comment on How Did The Capitol Police Put Down Trump’s Insurrection?
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The Wikipedia article for the attack has a pretty thorough summary of the events, most aspects of it are pretty well documented as far as I can tell. Essentially, the police were able to slow them down while congress members were evacuated to more secure areas. After Ashli Babitt was shot, much of the attack seemed to dissipate, and not long after further reinforcements were able to help clear the rest of the building. Trump then told his supporters to go home, knowing they had been routed.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are you referring to insurrectionist Ashli “Traitor” Babbitt?
While some have attempted to turn her into a martyr the truth is she, and the others around her, were doing something very illegal. And if they had all been non-white individuals they would have met with far more persuasive force than a few capitol police officers as was demonstrated with the BLM marches.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s funny when supporters of the attack try to say that they were unfairly brutalized by police, like we didn’t watch endless clips of people pummeled by the police for weeks for substantially less.
potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
And that these are the same people with back the blue bumper stickers and blue lime flags.
Oh wait i forgot that is only to show they support maintaining the status quo of systemic injustice and murder being carried out against minorities by people with qualified immunity.