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Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts) Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:07 PM Jan 2021

I heard the Capitol is now clear

Why didn’t we see people being led out in handcuffs?

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I heard the Capitol is now clear (Original Post) Proud liberal 80 Jan 2021 OP

CNN is giving a minute by minute update. Capital is now cleared but there are still rioters outside onetexan Jan 2021 #1

Because the cops love them. They don't want to arrest their friendsies. dreamland Jan 2021 #2

Yep Proud liberal 80 Jan 2021 #4

For the same reason they were not carried out in body bags...they were white. Moostache Jan 2021 #3

They cops just herded them out, made not effort to identify or detain a single person csziggy Jan 2021 #5

Great but Red Mountain Jan 2021 #6

onetexan

(13,080 posts)

1. CNN is giving a minute by minute update. Capital is now cleared but there are still rioters outside

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:09 PM

Jan 2021

https://edition.cnn.com/

dreamland

(964 posts)

2. Because the cops love them. They don't want to arrest their friendsies.

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:09 PM

Jan 2021

Police complicit in everyway

Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)

4. Yep

Reply to dreamland (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:13 PM

Jan 2021

That was my point

Moostache

(9,897 posts)

3. For the same reason they were not carried out in body bags...they were white.

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:09 PM

Jan 2021

This was a planned event, coordinated with facets of Capitol Police and intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

csziggy

(34,139 posts)

5. They cops just herded them out, made not effort to identify or detain a single person

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:16 PM

Jan 2021

I expected that the intruders would have been penned up and arrested, not escorted out.

Red Mountain

(1,740 posts)

6. Great but

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 07:19 PM

Jan 2021

this was a massive security failure.

A couple of hundred international terrorists with plans to rent tour buses and unload on the Capitol steps are taking notes.

How long to sweep for ieds and let Congress back in to do their jobs?

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