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Unset's avatar

It is quite rich that the Times recently published an article about how traumatized some Capitol police officers are. They could barely bother to report on the hundreds of serious injuries suffered by officers in BLM/antifa rioting thoughout 2020. In Portland they had to deal with riots for months on end, but we're still waiting for the sympathetic profile on those unfortunate officers.

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GraceMT's avatar

“Maybe for you it was peaceful but for the history books the thing that matters is that there was violence in it. When violence happens…”

So are we taking about the Jan 6 insurrection or the 2020 BLM protests?

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William Bell's avatar

[i]the thing that matters ... is that people died[/i]

No police officer died in the US Capitol on January 6. Nor did any policeman die afterward from an injury inflicted on that day. Officer Brian Sicknick died two days later, but the coroner found that he died from a stroke resulting from a clot blocking an artery to the brain, and having found no evidence of blunt-force trauma concluded that the stroke resulted from "natural causes" -- i.e., was not caused by injury.

The only person who was [b]killed[/b] in the Capitol on January 6 was Ashli Babbitt. She was unarmed, was not assaulting anyone, and was guilty of nothing worse than trespassing, but a still-unidentified Capitol Police officer shot her without warning. Yet no charges were brought against him.

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GraceMT's avatar

When all’s said and done the NYT is gonna do the NYT.

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