Politics January 6th

Prison isn't suppose to be fun. Maybe he should have thought of that before he listened to Trump and tried to take the Capitol.

 

Watching the officers testify to congress.

That's hard to watch.

 

This is just spin to try to distance the Proud Boys from what they really are, white supremacists.

I mean, they're dorky, cos playing white supremacists, but they're still white supremacists.

But if this guy didn't want to suffer like this? Pro tip: Don't break into a government building.

 

That one cop reading the legal definition of what a domestic terrorist is cracked me up.

NAILED IT!

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/this-is-...-tearful-testimony-about-jan-6-151614985.html

In tearful testimony Tuesday, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell described how he was nearly crushed while trying to prevent rioters from breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, ‘This is how I’m going to die, trampled defending this entrance,’” Gonell said, frequently wiping back tears as he spoke.

Gonell, an Iraq War veteran and naturalized U.S. citizen who immigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child, was one of four law enforcement officers who testified during the first public hearing of the House select committee to investigate the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He described how he and his fellow officers were sprayed with chemicals and beaten with a variety of weapons including, most shockingly to Gonell, an American flag.

I did not recognize my fellow citizens, or the United States they claimed to represent," Gonell said, comparing the violence he and fellow law enforcement officers encountered that day to “something from a medieval battle.”

“The rioters were vicious and relentless,” he said.

Gonell said he heard members of the mob, who chanted “Trump sent us” as they breached the Capitol, making specific threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence.

“Rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, shouted that I, an Army veteran and police officer, should be executed,” he recalled.

Gonell, who said he has been on medical and administrative leave for much of the past six months due to injuries he sustained on Jan. 6, questioned why those who “express outrage” over athletes kneeling in protest against police violence have not similarly condemned the “violent attack on our democracy” that left him and more than 140 other law enforcement officers injured.

“I’m still waiting for them,” he said.

 

Didn't you hear? They're crisis actors!

Sorry if this was already pointed out to you.

 

The Republicans are once again blaming Pelosi for January 6th, saying she should have known of the coming danger and acted sooner to protect the Capitol.

So basically, it's Pelosi's fault because she should have forseen that Trump was going to invite his fanboys to DC and sick them on the Capitol building and thus should have acted sooner to call in the national guard and upscale security for the Capitol.

When in fact she is not responsible for the security for the Capitol building or the national guard. That responsibility lies with the Capitol Police Board. She does control the Capitol along with the senate majority leader who was then Republican, Mitch McConnell. I don't see Republicans blaming him.

Pelosi immediately called for the national guard when it became evident the mob Trump had sent had fought their way into the building and that her and others in the house and senate were in danger.