🧵The Capitol Siege was a violent bloody failed coup d'etat. Officers sustained traumatic brain injur

[soothsayer]

Cleavon MD
@Cleavon_MD
🧵The Capitol Siege was a violent bloody failed coup d'etat. Officers sustained traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, broken backs, eye injuries, stabbings and even death. This thread captures that violence.

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[regnaD kciN]

1. How can you say that...???

After all, they’re white!

[triron]

2. This was all fine with most Republicans in congress.

What does that tell democrats? Huh? We must not get rid of the filibuster?

[Hekate]

5. What boggles my mind re the GOPers is that the insurrectionists were calling for ALL to be killed...

The thugs were not making any distinction that day between Dem and Rep. Did they think they would be spared? Do they still?

[triron]

7. One wonders about their paradigm. What planet are they living on anyway?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. The first dude appears to be the one semi-sane person in attendance ...

One day there's going to be an absolutely devastating movie made about this whole episode, incorporating all this footage and more.

[soothsayer]

4. Indeed he does

[Maraya1969]

6. The more I see these the less angrier I get and the more pitiful they all seem

To think they were all controlled by dump. But then again, they have all the insides needed to be controlled by dump. The racism, hatred etc. But under all of that is a bunch of people who are very hurt and unhappy.

[triron]

8. Be careful not to excuse their behavior in any way.

They are responsible for their actions. No one made them do this or think this way.

[Maraya1969]

9. You are right and they all need to go to jail in my opinion. I just think they are

pitiful now. it's actually a relief from the anger I was feeling toward them

[Lucky Luciano]

14. Jail seems too soft.

They need Florence Supermax with solitary confinement for 20+ years. Consecutive sentences for all crimes. No mercy. These are the absolute worst people on earth or they strive to be. Make sure they never see light again.

[Leghorn21]

22. +++, Lucky - not jail, P R I S O N

although, jail is fine right now while awaiting trial/sentencing, of course, but then

P R I S O N, for 20+ years

[GaYellowDawg]

21. I have the opposite reaction.

Every time I see it, I get angrier.

I don't hold anything against them for feeling very hurt and unhappy. People can't help feelings. But it's what you do with those feelings that is really important. These people decided that they wanted to storm the US Capitol and they fully intended to murder our elected representatives. They are no better than any other lynch mob. So fuck their feelings.

[spanone]

10. Brought to you by don trump & republicans in congress

[Tommymac]

11. K & R

[uponit7771]

12. K&R, but we need to talk about Cuomo 40234 times and Tigers leg and some other shit

[Initech]

13. And not only that, some of the stupidest criminals alive!

When you are committing a crime, maybe, I don't know, don't take selfies on a cell phone camera and upload them to Facebook and Instagram!!! Seriously you might as well wear a sign on your back that says "arrest me!". Throwing your life away for some likes on Facebook is a really stupid decision.

[soothsayer]

15. They were proud of what they did

[spooky3]

19. and felt entitled to do it. It continues to outrage me to

see these pictures and videos, especially considering (a) how long it took for help to arrive and (b) how completely differently this would have played out and would be discussed today, if black people or people of middle-eastern origin had been involved, instead of white men (primarily).

I hope more charges are added that truly reflect how heinous their acts were, e.g., they didn't just "enter" the Capitol; they went in intending to kidnap and kill members of Congress and the VP.

[bottomofthehill]

16. Tough and Troubling to watch

These people were rabid, insane, dangerous people and they were cheered on my thousands of others. I have a hard time thinking that so many, and it is more than just those seen in these small clips are this crazed by a false idol. They were out for blood, many of them have no idea of whose blood but they wanted blood.

I am still glad this did not turn into a massacre with many people shot and killed but as I look at these people I wonder how It did not.

I have no idea how to start deprogramming them, but, we have to find a way. I have neighbors that I think are “normal” people, I was shocked at their attitude of what happened, and find it even more shocking because they know me, where I work, and what I do there and they were still saying things like “ well, they should have addressed the stolen election stuff” or “ Are you really surprised this happened with the way things are going”.

[ffr]

17. K&R

Scary to think of the murderous intent of T----'s mob.

[Bluethroughu]

18. Democratic Representatives in Congress stand between

All these fascist traitors along with their supporters funding them and our Republic executed through Democracy.

This was a failed fools attempt to overthrow the Country, and as President Bush stated clearly "you're either with us, or you're against us".

Republicans proved their not with us, they supported the terrorists' insurrection.

Every terrorist there, should do prison time. Let out the drug offenses, and fill the prison up with traitors! Everywhere.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Rewind 100 years and you will see the types of things their ancestors did

They were proud of their craven violence back then and 100 years later, if Pence or Pelosi or any of the other "identifiable" elected officials in both chambers hadn't been ushered out and hidden, the mobs would have gone into a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy, and done the same to them.

[Whiskeytide]

24. Many don't realize this fact. The media seems ...

... to want to classify this as mostly acts of vandalism, and that there were not that many insurrectionists bent on killing - the majority of them were just caught up in the moment.

They underestimate the mind set of a mob.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. What is eery but telling are the column headlines from that 1920 incident -

June 1920

POLICE FORBIDDEN TO USE THEIR FIREARMS TO WITHHOLD RIOTERS

January 2021

'It was a horrible scene': Capitol Police have a $500M budget. Why were they unprepared at the Jan. 6 riot?

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Pittman said Capitol Police had asked 1,200 officers to be ready for an attack, but only four of the platoons were outfitted with riot gear and less lethal ammunitions – less than a quarter of the officers. She expressed the belief that nothing could have prepared them to prevent a protest of that size overrunning the Capitol.

The Capitol, even in its layout and design, was made to be open and welcoming to citizens, she said.

"I doubt many would have thought it would be necessary to protect it against our own citizens," Pittman said in the statement.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/01/26/insurrection-capitol-police-riot-gear-officer-equipment/4231075001/

June 1920

TROOPS SENT TO DULUTH BY THE GOVERNOR

January 2021

The entire D.C. National Guard has been mobilized.

About 1,100 troops from the D.C. National Guard and 650 from Virginia will deploy in Washington on Wednesday night, a National Guard spokesman said Wednesday night.

“The entire D.C. National Guard has been mobilized and is prepared to support law enforcement officers in various locations in the city to protect property, allowing federal and local law enforcement officers to do law-enforcement missions,” Capt. Tinashe T. Machona, a spokesman for the D.C. Guard, said in a statement.

He said the D.C. Army and Air National Guard have a combined 2,700 troops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/the-entire-dc-national-guard-has-been-mobilized.html

and a photo headline -

June 1920

IMPROMPTU GALLOWS WHERE THREE NEGROES' LIVES ARE CHOKED OUT

January 2021


This is the type of thing that they were about to repeat, but in a different time, a different city, and against a new set of victims.

[theneworiginal]

23. Powerful collection of videos of primitive, brutal criminals.

Stresses me out just watching. These RW cavemen are going down in history as political pawns who went off the rails for a leader who used them for his personal/political gains while taking no responsibility or suffering no consequence (yet). They did this--and will pay the price for it--in the service of a selfish, narcissistic asshole.