Quote:
Originally Posted by activeStick
I watched a bit of that too (on CNN, right?). It still amazes me that not a single shot was fired throughout the however many hours it went on for except for the one that killed that one woman. All the elements needed to justify the authorities opening fire were there, yet nobody did.
|
Honestly, a think a lot of that is down to, as cliched as it may sound, mutually assured destruction.
During BLM protests and a lot of what we saw during 2020, etc, the firepower was typically one-sided, its on law enforcement's side.
Not so here.
At the Capitol riot it was pretty well acknowledged that the edge regarding firepower was probably on the side of the crowd, just through sheer numbers.
You're talking thousands of people outside, if one out of every hundred of them had a gun the Cops were out-gunned by...I couldnt even begin to guess.
If those Cops had come out of that hallway guns blazing it would essentially be a re-enactment of the final scene of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'
And they knew it. They knew there was going to be blood on both sides of the floor.
But they were at their limits. They'd been holding and fighting and getting the crap kicked out of them for HOURS.
The fact that their superiors and other law enforcement agencies abandoned them for hours and hours because armed troops on the Capitol lawn would have bad optics?
Oh man...if I was one of those Cops? I'd be livid.
