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bdamomma

(69,626 posts)
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 07:14 PM Mar 2021

So Police Are Sent To Miami to Quell Crowds for Spring Break??

pepper balls used??? and for an insurrection they just let white supremacists take over the Capitol????? WTF?

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So Police Are Sent To Miami to Quell Crowds for Spring Break?? (Original Post) bdamomma Mar 2021 OP
Comments like this never make sense to me... brooklynite Mar 2021 #1
The Miami Police are an urban police force. The Capitol Police are more like a Mayberry police force Klaralven Mar 2021 #2
Not even close to Mayberry bottomofthehill Mar 2021 #5
Did Mayberry do drug arrests? Because that's all the Capitol Police do. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2021 #7
They didn't just "let" them, the Capitol Police put up quite a battle and many were injured. Raine Mar 2021 #3
The spring breakers are just letting off steam. Rustyeye77 Mar 2021 #4
Miami Beach, not Miami. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #6
Maybe bdamomma Mar 2021 #8
 

brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
1. Comments like this never make sense to me...
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 07:22 PM
Mar 2021

1. The Miami Police weren’t in charge of security at the Capitol.

2. They weren’t overwhelmed with the abrupt arrival of thousands of people.

3. The people on the beach were an organized group.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
2. The Miami Police are an urban police force. The Capitol Police are more like a Mayberry police force
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 07:26 PM
Mar 2021

The Capitol is like a small village embedded in the middle of DC.

The DC Police could have handled the situation.

bottomofthehill

(9,414 posts)
5. Not even close to Mayberry
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 07:53 PM
Mar 2021

Over 20,000 people came many wi the the intent to attack the Capitol. They went through all of the chemical munitions they had on hand. They fought for hours, and only one person was shot and killed.

Raine

(31,237 posts)
3. They didn't just "let" them, the Capitol Police put up quite a battle and many were injured.
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 07:39 PM
Mar 2021

Last edited Sun Mar 21, 2021, 08:09 PM - Edit history (1)

It's different ones in charge, one thing doesn't have anything to do with the other.

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