I watched many hours of television produced both by the MSM and people who were photographing from inside the “protest”. This TV included views, some close-up, of the protesters who were smashing in the windows, bear spraying the police, and stabbing them with the pointed ends of flag staffs. There were something like 150 members of the Capitol Police who were injured, including several who died or committed suicide within a few days of the “protest.” No doubt there was a fair amount of video and still shots posted at Facebook and Twitter by participants.
Thus I think it is quite likely the legal authorities had planty of visible evidence of wrongdoing and misbehavior to select from. This does not even include a fair bit of evidence that was apparently to be found with internet information like emails and others forms of communication and planning. Therefore, they probably have fairly well documented cases on many who may have been or are being imprisioned for more than a few initial arrest days.
Living near DC and having experienced the craziness after Martin Luther King was assassinated, I was very worried about what could have happened on Jan. 6 that would have been even far worse than what actually did happen. When the cities were burning after King’s death, we left the area for a few days. ON Jan. 6, I made sure my pistol was loaded and the box of shells close at hand.
I also saw video of plenty of people who seemed to just be standing around and looking, or who later just seemed to be walking through the halls of Congress (simple trespass violation) but not breaking anything or picking up anything. Some of them might have been picked up on initial security sweeps, but unless more serious violations were provable probably spent little or no time at all in jail. DC Police (not to be confused with Capitol Police) have learned to be pretty careful about making unnecessary arrests. I was once in downtown DC observing the action (vandalizing cars, burning trash cans), etc. when the police had herded a group of about 20 men and women into a corner and arrested them all. Some of the men wore business attire, and some women had beige camel hair winter coats, not your typical rioters. I had also seen individuals or small groups dressed in all black and faces covered. At any rate the big, costly lawsuit filed by people who were wrongly arrested that day has been carefully noted by DC Police in recent years and affected their crowd control behavior.
I feel quite sure that if Russians had behaved in a similar manner that Putin would have told the police to shoot anyone who needed shooting, which would have been dozens or more, like the protesters in Tien an Men Square in China (sp?), some of whom were crushed by tanks while unarmed. That night I was sitting talking with a man who was in tears over the fact his friends were being killed in China for unarmed protests.
you forgot to mention how many Dozens of FBI posing as protesters were instigating and actually causing much of the violence. Also, compared to major rioting in US cities, it was pretty damn mild. You have been brainwashed by the MSM. The election was stolen and if you disagree about that, then you are part of the problem.
The struggle is real.
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