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There were 100-200,000 people. Less than 100 were wanted for entering the capitol. Less than 30 of those got charged with more than some variant of unlawful ent

by hajile 6y ago

There were 100-200,000 people. Less than 100 were wanted for entering the capitol. Less than 30 of those got charged with more than some variant of unlawful entering. NONE got charged with the stuff people have been talking about (I go into the details in another post on this thread). Even with the National Guard and the anger at being disrupted, they still left and the violence didn't hold a candle to most protests (You should look up videos of the Antifa attacks on the Federal Government in Oregon or any of the other large protests over last summer and you'll see what I'm talking about).

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Less than 30 of those got charged with more than some variant of unlawful entering. You say “got charged” as if we were at the point where either a criminal grand jury would have completed its work indicting on any but the most readily-apparent-from-circumstances felonies or defendants would have completed plea bargaining (which is typically the only time they would waive indictment.) We’ve only just started to see the first of the follow-on charges after the ones that are trivially established by the circumstances of arrest or video evidence, such as the conspiracy charges against a grop of Oath Keepers.
kthejoker2 6y ago
I mean, just as a basic counterpoint, there are way more than 100 people inside the Capitol in these videos; and hundreds more trespassed at least onto the Capitol steps. Heck, you can see way more than 100 people pushing against Daniel Hodges and his team, the guard in the infamous "crushing" video https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-dc-police-officer-daniel-hodges-being-crushed-against-door-by-mob-storming-capitol/2021/01/11/32f439cd-7c7e-4f54-8bee-806ca28b8074_video.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-dc... They are all committing assault. Of course most of them aren't wanted or charged or ever will be. But they are certainly not a small number. And to blithely suggest the people standing 200 or 500 or even 1,000 feet away from them cheering them on wouldn't have gladly pushed on that officer as well ... based on the videos here, you're clearly wrong.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  Also, over 100 people have already been arrested in connection with the attack, virtually all of them people who were detained or identified from video within the Capitol. And, per the FBI, there are more than 300 current active investigations, and that number is increasing. The “less than 100 wanted” simply doesn’t map in any reasonable way to reality.

by hajile 6y ago

dragonwriter 6y ago

> Less than 30 of those got charged with more than some variant of unlawful entering. You say “got charged” as if we were at the point where either a criminal grand jury would have completed its work indicting on any but the most readily-apparent-from-circumstances felonies or defendants would have completed plea bargaining (which is typically the only time they would waive indictment.) We’ve only just started to see the first of the follow-on charges after the ones that are trivially established by the circumstances of arrest or video evidence, such as the conspiracy charges against a grop of Oath Keepers.

kthejoker2 6y ago

I mean, just as a basic counterpoint, there are way more than 100 people inside the Capitol in these videos; and hundreds more trespassed at least onto the Capitol steps. Heck, you can see way more than 100 people pushing against Daniel Hodges and his team, the guard in the infamous "crushing" video https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-dc-police-officer-daniel-hodges-being-crushed-against-door-by-mob-storming-capitol/2021/01/11/32f439cd-7c7e-4f54-8bee-806ca28b8074_video.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-dc... They are all committing assault. Of course most of them aren't wanted or charged or ever will be. But they are certainly not a small number. And to blithely suggest the people standing 200 or 500 or even 1,000 feet away from them cheering them on wouldn't have gladly pushed on that officer as well ... based on the videos here, you're clearly wrong.

dragonwriter 6y ago
Also, over 100 people have already been arrested in connection with the attack, virtually all of them people who were detained or identified from video within the Capitol. And, per the FBI, there are more than 300 current active investigations, and that number is increasing. The “less than 100 wanted” simply doesn’t map in any reasonable way to reality.