Why do supposedly smart people such dumb things. The Prez never said to riot he asked for peaceful protests.
Because people are social animals and will sometimes do dumb things when they think they have permission to do so because other people are doing it.
She should have kept herself away from the potential of violent, by standing off to the side.
I think that pardons would help in achieving reconciliation, and allow healing of these social rifts. Most of the rioters were not involved in violence against other people (those cases are different and more serious.)
I just shake my head at anyone who let themselves get suckered into the false flag operation by the Antifa goons. The moment I saw the first videos of these guys at the front of the crowd, fighting with police, I knew they were leftist infiltrators.
First, it’s absurd to think that real Trump supporting conservatives would be standing at a barricade shoving the police, throwing things at them, hitting them with stuff, including shields, and just generally acting like animals. Second, I don’t care how much Trump paraphernalia they had on, it was still dead obvious that these idiots were not actual Trump supporters. They looked EXACTLY like I would imagine Antifa leftists trying to role play as Trump supporters would look. They still looked like scruffy, dirty hippies, their language had more curse words than non-curse words, and despite the feeble disguises they still had all of the usual Antifa gear like helmets, gas masks, backpacks, shields, bats and other weapons, etc.
To anyone who was undiscerning enough to get caught in Antifa’s trap, I don’t know what to say other than “Learn to be aware of your surroundings, and take a moment to look before you leap.” However, I do think that the majority of actual Trump supporters there (who were still a tiny fraction of those who attended the speech), remained peaceful and did nothing more than climb the steps and wave flags. Those folks should face at most, if anything, a simple trespassing charge (though the left does FAR worse on a routine basis without suffering any consequences).
Then you had the smaller, but still significant number of Trump supporters who were apparently guided by the Capitol police to an open door and allowed to look around inside. Many of these people said that they thought that the police were letting them see the Capitol, as if they were being given a tour. None of these people did anything wrong, and none of them should face any consequences (though the police should - something very concerning was happening there).
And finally, there was an unknown, but apparently extremely small number of Trump supporters who allowed themselves to get caught up in Antifa’s manufactured rage and who followed the disguised leftists in through broken windows and doors. I don’t know if any of these people did any actual damage, and the vast majority (probably several hundred) of the people doing the damage inside were Antifa, but any Trump supporter who went to this extreme deserves to be punished pretty harshly. Obviously one of them, Ashli Babbitt, lost her life because she got caught up in a group of Antifa idiots who set her up to be shot, so she unfortunately paid the ultimate price.
The media are lying, as are almost all of the politicians, about what happened at the Capitol, but to those few who did step over the line, we’ve got to be smarter than that.
Are they arresting anyone who was in there regardless of their behavior? (Minus journalists)
Sone people just walked in and did not act crazy.
I think the capital was breached before Trump supporters ever arrived there when they arrived they just got swept up into the CAOS as planned by the agitators brought there by the Dems and Soros!!!