Personally, anytime you break and climb through windows to get into a building, you've lost the right to be considered a peaceful protestor, or tourist.
And the Capitol Police on the other side of the barricaded door, fully visible with weapon drawn, and you continue doing what they are telling you not to do while pointing a handgun in your direction.
This. Her being a veteran is used as a “you can’t criticize vets!” card, but it actually means that she knew what she was doing would be grounds for using lethal force. And that no sane security force assumes that someone with a backpack that broke through security, at a location that is a likely target for terrorists no less, is “unarmed.”
There’s a reason they check bags before you go into places like that. The Tsarnaev brothers didn’t appear to be armed. Their bags looked perfectly normal until they exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
It's easy to say that NOW, but remember that jan 16 was on the tail end of years of black lives matter riots all over the country. Its why no one gave a shit about jan 16 no matter how hard they worked to try and make people care. Politicians didn't care when it was other cities burning. But once it touched DC, now it was an issue.
Huh? If BLM protesters broke and climbed through windows, or did something equivalent, then I'd say the same about them, and plenty of people did say something about it, including those in Washington.
The people that went to the capital that day, but didn't participate in storming the capital, they can be said to not have broken the law, and while I disagree with them, I won't judge them as insurrectionist.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Jan 03 '25
Personally, anytime you break and climb through windows to get into a building, you've lost the right to be considered a peaceful protestor, or tourist.