• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    This idiot glossing over the fact that the Jan 6th traitors not only attempted to capture congress to kill them and the vice president but also shit in their hands and smeared it on the capital walls?

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        7 months ago

        They beat policemen to death and wiped their own feces on the walls of our Nation’s Capital.

        (I am amazed how often this gets deleted by moderators on lemmy when I point this out)

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            7 months ago

            I apologize. Of the officers beaten by rioters only one, Brian Sicknick, died directly from the wounds. Fifteen more were hospitalized.

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              7 months ago

              Umm… And you’re 100% sure that the medical examiner is lying despite natural causes also being the accepted finding by Capitol Police?

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                7 months ago

                Medical examiners are one step removed from cops (as in they work with cops a lot and a lot of them are ridiculously unqualified political hires) so yeah, it would be stupid to trust them in any even slightly contentious circumstances.

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                7 months ago

                Why are you splitting hairs to defend insurrectionists?

                Is it because they beat capitol police and you hate the police?

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                  7 months ago

                  No, it is because like I said the Supreme Court did ask some valid questions… there are plenty of laws that the people on Jan. 6 broke, but the one in particular that they are using could equally be applied to protesters that have also disrupted official proceedings. If the police have evidence that all the people that went into the capitol were there with a plan to assassinate and specifically harm members of congress, then yes I think that they should qualify under this law. But, merely going into the capitol building is not sufficient evidence in of itself. I’m just saying, be careful what you wish for and don’t be surprised if suddenly climate activists and other Democrat protesters don’t get charged with the same thing once you do.

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                    7 months ago

                    I’m just saying, be careful what you wish for and don’t be surprised if suddenly climate activists and other Democrat protesters don’t get charged with the same thing once you do.

                    They already get charged. The insurrectionists were treated with kid gloves and are to this day.