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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ShakataGaNai on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:01PM (#25662429)
BLM they had military out in full force, even though BLM was non-violent protests. Flip side this terrorism event was known to be coming and they did very little to prepare for it. Nor are they stopping it with any great haste.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by entropicdrifter on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:16PM (#25662611)
Well, now the National Guard has been deployed, so I suspect we'll soon see a sharp change in atmosphere
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by meragrin_ on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:51PM (#25664532)
> BLM they had military out in full force, even though BLM was non-violent protests.

The military only became involved after local governments gave "protesters" space over multiple days and emboldened the idiots to the point local police were overwhelmed.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by _-david-_ on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:06PM (#25663275)
Hundreds of the BLM protests were violent (7%).
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by cltby on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:04PM (#25663252)
The BLM riots cost about $1-2 billion dollars of property damage [1]. Taking as given the standard gov't value of life of $9M, this works out to 110-220 life equivalents. This would qualify the BLM riots as one of the deadliest terror attacks to ever happen on US soil.

[1] https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

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