People were harmed and property was destroyed. There's plenty of videos of fights breaking out and capitol windows being broken.
https://twitter.com/search?q=washingtondc%20windows%20until%...
The only dead person was one of the protestors.
Besides the democratic process
> destroyed nothing
Besides the capitol
> the voice of the unheard!
I've been hearing about them weekly for the last 4 years and I'm not even in the US
There have been quite a number of injuries and property damage, deployment of chemical irritants by the mob against law enforcement, and several explosive devices identified and defused in the attempt to use violence and threats of further violence to overturn the results of the recent election.
You're right, I've revised my view of the incident. I now see this constitutes sedition, an attack on our very republic.
For consistency, I've also reconsidered my view of the BLM riots. In light of the billions in property damage; the tens of direct deaths and thousands of ensuing murders; the violent mob attacks on law enforcement, replete with "chemical irritants" and Molotov cocktails; all on a scale 1e3 to 1e5 larger than what's happening in DC; I have to conclude they were a grave act of terrorism.
People that think Camp X-Ray is a crime against humanity don’t think that it is because no one there is an actual terrorist, but because being an actual terrorist doesn’t justify what is and has been done at Camp X-Ray.
So, yeah, these people shouldn’t be “sent to Gitmo”. Not because they aren’t terrorists (they are) but because that’s not what we should do to terrorists.
There are always people taking advantage of or inciting chaos to do reckless things. They need to be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Even if they're the president.
"People over property" is probably the most direct encouragement of property destruction.
Only some small portion of these protests are likely to be violent bad actors, and the proper protesters should not be disrupted by law enforcement
One of the participants in the violent, felonious (18 USC Secs. 111, 231, 372, 1361, 1752, 2101, 2383, 2384, and possibly others) conspiracy, you mean.
And what about BLM protestors attacking Republicans like Rand Paul in DC?
But the media conveniently made excuse why it was “mostly peaceful” then a few Trump loonies barge their way into the capital, one of them gets shot, and “it’s a coup attempt”.
The double standard is amazing.
And I would rather see this police response for BLM, than that response for these people.
> Thats probably because you hate black people more than you respect Democracy.
this is extra funny to me because it is also mathematically bogus. I'm saying I very much don't want the cops harassing BLM protests, even if it the price is letting these protests vandalize the Capitol building.
Maybe poster meant "That's probably because you like black people more than you respect Democracy". To which I answer, "...you call the Senate Democracy?"