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Most of them haven't even been arrested yet, makes you really wonder.

ogre_codes 6y ago
Police at a scene were too busy taking selfies with them to arrest anyone.
pvarangot 6y ago
Even in a case were someone's life is at risk or an individual is armed, if you get kicked out of a building it usually takes one day until they arrest you at your house. So maybe arrests will happen on Friday. That arrests didn't happen _on the spot_ in a case like this is utterly bizarre. Arrests happen on the spot for stupider things like people partying on a parking lot and someone trying to hide or run away when the police show up to stop the noise or responding to a breaking and entering. I know of cases were actual hostages were taken or shots fired or things lit on fire, and it took the DA and the police three days to actually show up at a guys house to arrest him. His identity was all over the newspapers.
- Pfhreak 6y ago
  People have been arrested in that building for being a little too loud. It's absolutely wild that so few arrests happened.
  - whoisburbansky 6y ago
    Apparently Raphael Warnock, the Senator elect for GA, was arrested in the Rotunda a few years ago for praying there as a protest of GOP efforts to overturn the ACA. [1] 1. https://news.yahoo.com/rev-raphael-warnock-once-arrested-233700158.html https://news.yahoo.com/rev-raphael-warnock-once-arrested-233...
    - sthnblllII 6y ago
      >The delegation, including Pastor Cynthia L. Hale of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia, was arrested in the rotunda in the Russell Senate Office Building It was a trespassing group of chanting protestors that "breached" the lobby of a federal office building and refused to leave. They were arrested because their mob was only a few dozen people. Technically, interfering with a federal employee's ability to work is a felony. If the letter of the law were followed, that congress woman should be in prison. I think that law is unconscionable.
- sthnblllII 6y ago
  >That arrests didn't happen _on the spot_ in a case like this is utterly bizarre. You literally cant arrest tens of thousands of people. That's the implicit message of mass demonstrations in any country.
  - chillwaves 6y ago
    They had no problem throwing peaceful protesters in unmarked vans in Seattle last year.
    - sthnblllII 6y ago
      Do you mean these peaceful protesters? https://prosportsextra.com/minneapolis-rioters-take-over-police-station/?amp=1 https://prosportsextra.com/minneapolis-rioters-take-over-pol...
      - chillwaves 6y ago
        No, I mean the peaceful ones. There were both rioters and peaceful protesters being thrown in vans, so what's your point?
  - tjalfi 6y ago
    12,000+ people were arrested at the 1971 May Day protests[0]. Mass arrests are less likely than they were in the past but they aren't impossible by any means. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests
jldugger 6y ago
If you wait two weeks to announce the names it might be a bit harder to write the pardons.
- whatshisface 6y ago
  Yeah, a bunch of people on one hand are saying that they'd all just get pardoned, and another bunch of people are saying that it's weird how nobody is getting charged yet, but for some reason not very many people are putting the two facts together.
- ChrisLomont 6y ago
  You don't need names, or even a list of crimes, for blanket pardons. Examples include Lincoln Civil War soldier pardons and Carter Vietnam draft dodger pardons.

Police at a scene were too busy taking selfies with them to arrest anyone.

Even in a case were someone's life is at risk or an individual is armed, if you get kicked out of a building it usually takes one day until they arrest you at your house. So maybe arrests will happen on Friday. That arrests didn't happen _on the spot_ in a case like this is utterly bizarre. Arrests happen on the spot for stupider things like people partying on a parking lot and someone trying to hide or run away when the police show up to stop the noise or responding to a breaking and entering. I know of cases were actual hostages were taken or shots fired or things lit on fire, and it took the DA and the police three days to actually show up at a guys house to arrest him. His identity was all over the newspapers.

Pfhreak 6y ago
People have been arrested in that building for being a little too loud. It's absolutely wild that so few arrests happened.
- whoisburbansky 6y ago
  Apparently Raphael Warnock, the Senator elect for GA, was arrested in the Rotunda a few years ago for praying there as a protest of GOP efforts to overturn the ACA. [1] 1. https://news.yahoo.com/rev-raphael-warnock-once-arrested-233700158.html https://news.yahoo.com/rev-raphael-warnock-once-arrested-233...
  - sthnblllII 6y ago
    >The delegation, including Pastor Cynthia L. Hale of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia, was arrested in the rotunda in the Russell Senate Office Building It was a trespassing group of chanting protestors that "breached" the lobby of a federal office building and refused to leave. They were arrested because their mob was only a few dozen people. Technically, interfering with a federal employee's ability to work is a felony. If the letter of the law were followed, that congress woman should be in prison. I think that law is unconscionable.
sthnblllII 6y ago
>That arrests didn't happen _on the spot_ in a case like this is utterly bizarre. You literally cant arrest tens of thousands of people. That's the implicit message of mass demonstrations in any country.
- chillwaves 6y ago
  They had no problem throwing peaceful protesters in unmarked vans in Seattle last year.
  - sthnblllII 6y ago
    Do you mean these peaceful protesters? https://prosportsextra.com/minneapolis-rioters-take-over-police-station/?amp=1 https://prosportsextra.com/minneapolis-rioters-take-over-pol...
    - chillwaves 6y ago
      No, I mean the peaceful ones. There were both rioters and peaceful protesters being thrown in vans, so what's your point?
- tjalfi 6y ago
  12,000+ people were arrested at the 1971 May Day protests[0]. Mass arrests are less likely than they were in the past but they aren't impossible by any means. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests

jldugger 6y ago

If you wait two weeks to announce the names it might be a bit harder to write the pardons.

whatshisface 6y ago
Yeah, a bunch of people on one hand are saying that they'd all just get pardoned, and another bunch of people are saying that it's weird how nobody is getting charged yet, but for some reason not very many people are putting the two facts together.
ChrisLomont 6y ago
You don't need names, or even a list of crimes, for blanket pardons. Examples include Lincoln Civil War soldier pardons and Carter Vietnam draft dodger pardons.