Everybody expounding the premise in this or similar articles is either being disingenuous or is completely stupid. Law enforcement deployed a large police presence all dressed out in riot gear for blm/antifa because they expected violence, burning, looting and general mayhem. Law enforcement did not expect that from a crowd of Trump supporters. I think it caught them off guard and surprised them.
Right now half the country is very angry, almost angry enough for a lot of us to be pushed into a mob mentality. If that were to happen law enforcement would be really surprised. It could get a modern civil war going in earnest. A modern civil war won’t be armies in the field. It would be marked by: politically motivated murders, assassinations, arson, bombings, violence and then retaliation. It would be ugly, nobody would be safe.
Watching it over and over a few times Ive drawn the conclusion this shooting was deliberate.The shooter difnt shust fire off the gun he waited for a specific target. This is only my opinion.
“Law enforcement did not expect that from a crowd of Trump supporters. I think it caught them off guard and surprised them.”
I think the police thought it would be the same old thing - older Trump supporters waving their flags, singing Hymns, etc. While I’m pretty sure that the anarchists and BLM type folks also took advantage of the situation, I think that a lot of patriots are/were expressing their anger about the stolen election.
“Caught off guard”
I have a poster:
“Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance,
My calmness for acceptance,
and my kindness for weakness.”
The photo with the words is a sniper sitting with his rifle.
I think to some extent that is what the Capital Police encountered.