Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by tsimionescu on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:31AM (#25668259)

I think it was obvious from everything we've seen, especially in comparison to the recent protests, that the police response was deliberately small. Whether they received orders to allow the protesters in, whether they themselves decided to do it, whether they were denied reinforcements - its obvious that something caused police response to be almost non-existent to an obvious threat.

If there had been a BLM rally instead of a MAGA rally on the steps of the capitol the day the election is certified, they would have been kept well away from the building with riot gear.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by craftinator on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:38AM (#25668303)

> If there had been a BLM rally instead of a MAGA rally on the steps of the capitol the day the election is certified, they would have been kept well away from the building with riot gear.

Living in Portland, I had this same thought. Random one way streets in downtown Portland get a much more violent, immediate, and overwhelming police response on a nightly basis than the Capitol building did when there was an obvious riot forming.

If it had been a BLM rally, the tear-gas would have started before any protester had made it up the steps, the same way it still happens in Portland. What a fucked up country I live in.

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