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bro if 2k people broke into work looking for you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot

TMWNN 1mo ago
> ~~2k~~ 250 unarmed people ~~broke into work~~ mysteriously allowed in are looking for you, while dozens of trained armed police officers surround you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot FTFY
- mitxela 1mo ago
  What happened to Brian Sicknick?
  - TMWNN 1mo ago
    Officer Sicknick did not die from being hit by a fire extinguisher because that never happened <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-exting...>. He died of a stroke which the autopsy found no connection with the riot <https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sicknick-capitol-police-officer-died-two-str/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sickn...>. The one person who died violently was one of the rioters, an unarmed woman who was shot by Capitol Police. Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot.
    - kwarcode 1mo ago
      > Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot. At that rate, how many can even be left by now?
    - fatbird 1mo ago
      An unarmed woman climbing through a smashed window with a capital police officer on the other side, sidearm drawn, warning her not to advance, in the middle of a crowd storming the capitol building while a gallows stood outside, waiting for the crowd to bring out a member of congress or the Vice President. > * U.S. representative Markwayne Mullin [currently head of DHS], a witness to Babbitt's attempted breach, said that Byrd "didn't have a choice" but to shoot, and that his action "saved people's lives".* [0] The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt
      - TMWNN 1mo ago
        >The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”. I do not disagree with this at all. I only mentioned her death as contrast to the usual rhetoric of how the mob at the Capitol "killed" Officer Sicknick and others (who are always mysteriously unnamed).
- ethbr1 1mo ago
  It's hard to reconcile a conspiracy theory that protestors were allowed to storm the Capitol with the fact that Ashli Babbitt was shot on video for refusing calls to stop breaching a barricade. Police and security trying to manage a dynamic situation with minimum loss of life by not immediately gunning down quasi-violent crowd is a more reasonable conclusion. Regardless, 100% of which is Trump's fault for incitement.
- micromacrofoot 1mo ago
  alright but the point still stands? people were yelling out names carrying zipties... they broke windows hit police officers and a woman was killed while crawling through a broken window? if that happened to me at work it would be something I talked about all the time, there are a thousand ways it could have gotten even worse

TMWNN 1mo ago

> ~~2k~~ 250 unarmed people ~~broke into work~~ mysteriously allowed in are looking for you, while dozens of trained armed police officers surround you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot FTFY

mitxela 1mo ago
What happened to Brian Sicknick?
- TMWNN 1mo ago
  Officer Sicknick did not die from being hit by a fire extinguisher because that never happened <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-exting...>. He died of a stroke which the autopsy found no connection with the riot <https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sicknick-capitol-police-officer-died-two-str/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sickn...>. The one person who died violently was one of the rioters, an unarmed woman who was shot by Capitol Police. Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot.
  - kwarcode 1mo ago
    > Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot. At that rate, how many can even be left by now?
  - fatbird 1mo ago
    An unarmed woman climbing through a smashed window with a capital police officer on the other side, sidearm drawn, warning her not to advance, in the middle of a crowd storming the capitol building while a gallows stood outside, waiting for the crowd to bring out a member of congress or the Vice President. > * U.S. representative Markwayne Mullin [currently head of DHS], a witness to Babbitt's attempted breach, said that Byrd "didn't have a choice" but to shoot, and that his action "saved people's lives".* [0] The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt
    - TMWNN 1mo ago
      >The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”. I do not disagree with this at all. I only mentioned her death as contrast to the usual rhetoric of how the mob at the Capitol "killed" Officer Sicknick and others (who are always mysteriously unnamed).
ethbr1 1mo ago
It's hard to reconcile a conspiracy theory that protestors were allowed to storm the Capitol with the fact that Ashli Babbitt was shot on video for refusing calls to stop breaching a barricade. Police and security trying to manage a dynamic situation with minimum loss of life by not immediately gunning down quasi-violent crowd is a more reasonable conclusion. Regardless, 100% of which is Trump's fault for incitement.
micromacrofoot 1mo ago
alright but the point still stands? people were yelling out names carrying zipties... they broke windows hit police officers and a woman was killed while crawling through a broken window? if that happened to me at work it would be something I talked about all the time, there are a thousand ways it could have gotten even worse