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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by vorpalhex on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:28AM (#25672104)
They shot one, hosed them all down with tear gas and OC to the point of a police officer needing medical attention for too much OC exposure, and 3 other protestors are dead for unlisted causes.

If that had happened when protestors burned down a police station, destroyed miles of shops, threw molotov cocktails at a federal courthouse or any of the other riots in the past few months, there would be half of our politicians shouting to end all policing.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by yxwvut on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:42AM (#25672234)
Are you genuinely arguing that the show of force displayed here was greater or more disproportionate than that displayed last summer?
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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by vorpalhex on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:46AM (#25672295)
How many unarmed protestors got shot center mass with 9mm by cops in those protests?
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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by yxwvut on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:51AM (#25672369)
About as many as were trying to violently break into an in-session senate floor accompanied by an angry, armed mob intent on overthrowing the government.
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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by vorpalhex on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:59AM (#25672477)
Sorry, were the protestors who burned down a police station or occupied a block of Seattle unarmed? I'm pretty sure they had rifles, compared to our insurrectionists which had.. flagpoles?

Or is trespassing on federal property worth a death sentence now?

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by TheCoelacanth on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:22PM (#25677686)
She was literally charging at the people the police were protecting.

You could not come up with a more justified police shooting.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by zaroth on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:50PM (#25678055)
It’s always a tragedy when police have to kill a assailant instead of apprehending them. Particularly when the assailant is unarmed.

There have been countless situations more dangerous to the lives of police or bystanders than this, where the assailant was not killed. But perhaps none with so many “important” people in the same room.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by zaroth on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:27PM (#25681507)
Edit: Graphic video of the police shooting. [1]

They could have easily arrested her. They shot and killed her instead. She had no weapon and had made no physical contact with any officer. Just shot as she came through the door.

At the same time, there are a half dozen well armed officers on the same side of the door as the protestors who are not being attacked and freely arrive at the scene within seconds of the shooting.

[1] - https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1347076676342185984?...

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