New analysis turns up a surprising detail about Trump's Capitol insurrectionists

[Generic Other]

Researchers at GWU's Program on Extremism analyzed the cases of 257 alleged participants the mob attack on the Capitol...divided the 257 individuals, who include 221 men and 36 women, into three groups: "militant networks," "organized clusters," and "inspired believers."

Militant networks, the report states, represent "the apex of organizational planning by domestic violent extremist groups for and on January 6th," and are "characterized by hierarchical organization and chains of command."

"Leaders of established domestic violent extremist groups issued orders or directives to members of their groups, encouraging them to travel to Washington in advance of the siege," the report states. "Unlike individuals in the other categories, not only did these militant networks plan to attend protests on the 6th, but they are also alleged to have planned in advance to breach the Capitol and, in many cases, conduct violence inside the walls of the building."

The second category, organized clusters, is "composed of small, close-knit groups of individuals who allegedly participated in the siege together, usually comprising family members, friends, and acquaintances."

"Finally, the remainder of the alleged siege participants can be categorized as inspired believers," the report says. "These individuals, according to available evidence, were neither participants in an established violent extremist group nor connected to any of the other individuals who are alleged to have stormed the Capitol."

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2650960591/

[Midnight Writer]

1. Those numbers are interesting. For example, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 3% together are 12 people.

Less than 5%, yet they are getting the media spotlight.

Meanwhile, 142 inspired believers. More than half. These I consider the people radicalized by the media. They were not organizing with others, just went on their own to answer their President's call.

I'd like to see a breakdown of prior criminal records. I suspect there were a number of hooligan types looking for a license to raise hell.

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R for exposure

[taxi]

3. make the crow well-done, please

I guess griping about no mention of structure is over. It's there, in print. And it wasn't easy.

[Warpy]

4. The average age was 40, which surprised me

The ultra organized, violent militants need to face prison. Fines and probation will likely do it for the rest of them, that will wake up the ones who are capable of waking up.

That's probably the best we can do, put the bad actors in prison, deplete the number of hangers on as much as possible.

Plus it needs to be a priority to go after whoever started this Q nonsense. It stopped being funny when people started to lose family members to it.

[Girl powers]

6. Make Them Pay (Literally)

The Insurrectionists caused millions of dollars damage. Besides jail, fine them heavily.

[Girl powers]

7. Make Them Pay (Literally)

The Insurrectionists caused millions of dollars damage. Besides jail, fine them heavily.

[Progressive Jones]

5. This looks like an attempt to water down some of the charges. They all went in. nt

[Deminpenn]

8. Interesting, thanks for posting

nt

[Fyrefox]

9. A good analysis

The organized clusters and inspired believers, of course, see Trump as a god-ordained president from whom the election was "stolen." Their insurrection was ordered by Trump, and they were just following his orders, as everyone should do. They see themselves as blameless "patriots," mere instruments of the best president ever. We're all victims of the radical left here. Leave your brains and your masks by the door, please...