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What were these people armed with?
by BikiniPrince 6y ago
What were these people armed with?
- ben_w 6y agoWhich people do you mean by “these”? The insurrectionists had pipe bombs and molotovs. No idea about the BLM or the anticapitalism stuff in the summer. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-pipe-bombs-and-cooler-of-molotov-cocktails-found-near-capitol-building-amid-capitol-riot-dc-police-chief-says/ar-BB1cxvMx https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-pipe-bombs-and-cooler-of...
- rtkwe 6y agoAnd it'll be forever hard to answer what the people in the Capitol had with them because they were just let out and weren't arrests didn't really start until that evening when supporting LE finally came in.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoThere are photographs and video. A truck was found parked outside the capitol filled. They found them during the riot, not afterward. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurations-capitol-siege-8828a6a920198d0ea1ee0c73a49d8847 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurati... Having watched a chronological, narration-less series of footage from the day it does appear there was an organized contingent operating among the larger chaos.
- rtkwe 6y agoI meant literally the people that went inside the Capitol we know those things were floating around in the crowd generally but not what the people inside had. I also saw that one LARP group heading up the stairs looking organized but IDK if they were spotted with anything particularly bad, haven't watched everything that happened for sure though.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoThere are photographs of people inside the chambers with cuffs and tasers. One was recently arrested for it: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/fbi-arrests-nashville-zip-tie-suspect-from-assault-on-u-s-capitol https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates...