Storming Of The Capitol Building

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(01-11-2021, 10:43 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Well, it didn't take long from "we feel bad for the LEO's who were injured/killed" to, "they were complicit!" from the far left.  GM is a good weathervane in this regard.  I'm sure the strain of pretending was getting to them. 

Let's be fair, here, the officers doing things like what resulted in these suspensions certainly gives the perception of complicitness.

(01-11-2021, 11:19 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Oh, to be sure.  It's almost like advocating for us is a tool.  It's great being shit on by everyone. 

Which is why I said almost exactly that in an earlier post. LE is just used as a prop by the politicians.

(01-11-2021, 11:29 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: There were a lot of people on the Left really hounding the Capitol Police just as soon as the pictures came out showing a couple of them not pounding people in the heads with billy clubs. As I stated at that time (on FB), I think the Capitol Police did a reasonably good job considering the circumstances. A lot of people do not want to hear that. But then again, most of those people have never faced a mob or a riot, particularly when the numbers are so massively against you.

The number one job of the Capitol Police is to protect the lives of the Congresspeople (and the VP if he is there, as well). They accomplished that. They held the mob outside for ninety minutes without reinforcements. Protecting the property is a secondary mission. Obviously, they had some problems there. Considering the situation, I don't blame them for concentrating on their primary mission. It is what you do.

Here is my problem with what went down. They keep saying "we had no information that it would turn out like this." Meanwhile, all over the internet, right-wing extremists were talking openly about doing exactly what they did. To paraphrase someone from the ADL I heard yesterday, this was the most known about terrorist attack we've had in the post-9/11 country. ADL trawls the internet and dark web for this stuff and they were providing information to the feds days, if not weeks, ahead of this. It keeps being said that they refused help from other agencies and started off not in riot gear because they didn't have evidence it would turn violent. That's a lie, and it makes them look really bad.

(01-12-2021, 03:37 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: LEO unions should start using some common sense. Stop protecting the shitbags. Weed out the bad ones. And fix the culture. Because on Jan 6 21 it was proven to the world how broke it is. Protecting, enabling, and coddling shitbag LEOs has become a problem for all of us. 

Well, when you have this going on, you can see one of the problems. https://www.businessinsider.com/nypd-sergeants-union-chief-appeared-on-fox-news-with-a-qanon-mug-2020-7