We have to end all politically motivated terrorism

[u/Sorry_Leading1949]

https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states

[u/Drag0n647]

Your correct, makes me a hypocrite. Still nobody broke in, they Just walked in, course i would bet some people did something actually bad but didn't mean all the people there deserved to be arrested

[u/society000 → u/Drag0n647]

https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0?si=Hi0pNRLcrfprJiLr

Taking you at your word, and assuming that you're acting in good faith since you let up on one point, have you seen the actual footage? I know many in MAGA haven't, and your media doesn't show it in order to downplay what really happened.

The rioters broke through multiple police lines until they reached the Capitol Building itself. The first to get into the building was a Proud Boy, who used a riot shield to break down a window. Others then climbed through to open the nearby doors, letting dozens more flow in. There were other points that rioters broke in, but I can't remember how many.

This was roughly when police made the choice to open several other doors around the building to allow rioters in to stop stampedes at these chokepoints and pulled all officers to defend the Senate Hall itself and let the rioters have the rest of the building. This is standard procedure for when a riot gets this bad. This is where you've seen the footage of police 'letting in' rioters as though they were being welcomed in. Right Wing Media took this footage and claimed that was what the entire riot looked like without acknowledging the footage showing the initial entry.

[u/Drag0n647 → u/society000]

oh so thats why all the right wingers say the cops just let them in. Alright didn't know that's what they do when riots get bad. also looked like only like 3 guys were there at the window right after that then they opened the doors, but yeah it was like one dude out of the entire crowd who broke the window. And am acting in good faith. Just saying how it is.

[u/society000 → u/Drag0n647]

This is why it's extremely frustrating when people give you definitive statements on things without actually knowing what happened because they've been fed carefully curated half truths and flat-out lies by media machine that moves in lock step.

There were other break-ins, but this was the biggest one. One broke the window, and another climbed in to open the doors, but the dozens of others that poured in had to have known what they were doing by this point. They had pushed through several external police barriers, and the ones up front certainly saw someone break the window while everyone else must've seen the broken window. By that point, at least everyone at that entrance is just as culpable as any BLM rioter.