Source?
While I’m sure there were people who carried illegally present, I don’t recall seeing anything about people being arrested or cited for carrying - or for that matter, anyone who claimed to have carried after the fact.
> But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters...
Did we watch the same videos? Did you see any footage from the tunnel?
That demonstrated absence of perception of threat (despite what you today perceive as "them being battered") is pretty puzzling.
https://wtop.com/dc/2023/01/capitol-police-officer-on-jan-6-...
For that matter, did any of the present officers go on to say that there was no perception of threat? The overwhelming consensus from officer interviews seems to be "we got fucked."
it is hard evidence
> rather than listening to officers
it is after the fact rationalization indistinguishable from fiction
> drowning person doesn't flail around dramatically like you see in the movies.
yep. They just disappear and don't appear back for the next 5, 10, 15, ... minutes. That is hard evidence that they drowned.
The police did let the Jan 6 protesters into Capitol where the lawmakers were at the time without as much as shooting even just a rubber bullet. That is hard evidence that the police didn't perceive the protesters as a threat. Or do you think they let them in that way while perceiving them as a threat? It was their sworn duty to protect those lawmakers, and the only way their behavior can be explained without that sworn duty being broken is through the absence of perception of threat. (Compare to the Security Service who perceived a threat and shot real guns.)
>did any of the present officers go on to say that there was no perception of threat?
why would they do that, at least in the past 4 years? Let see what they say in the next 4 years. Btw, even in the last 4 years the police didn't say that they perceived threat to the lawmakers - and i think they really didn't perceived such threat, otherwise i think they would shoot like the Security Service did.
what's the point that you're circling here? that these people were there to take a tour of the capitol and the gallows, weapons, and IEDs they brought and chants of "hang mike pence" were just jokes? based on the fact that outnumbered police didn't open fire on the crowd? just come out and say it.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w
- https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-florida-virginia-co...
and
"It’s still unknown why the devices did not explode, the official said. One theory under investigation is that the timers were set incorrectly. Another is that the batteries may have been improperly connected, the official said"
Go google pictures of the "pipe bomb". It is cartoonishly stupid looking. It's using a mechanical kitchen timer, that has no electricity or battery, as the ignition for $0.50 of pipe from Home Depot will with, if I had to guess, powder from roadside fireworks. Everything is connected with alligator clips, not even real wiring or soldering, and in one photo one clip is clearly attached to plastic. This isn't a bomb, it's a firework with a non-existent detonator, and the law enforcement is deliberately vague about because they know it isn't a bomb, but that's no the narrative they want. It's not even clear how they knew anything at all about the devices considering they used a EOD robot to destroy it on-site.
Why are the not-bombs in plain sight? Not even attempted to be hidden? Why does is it designed to cartoonishly look like a bomb and not disguised as literally anything else? Why not put it in, I don't know, a plastic grocery bag at least? Why put it in a completely empty alley where there would be virtually no one around to be hurt?
This was designed to cause a scare, not hurt anyone. It screams false flag to me, and it worked, because every media outlet reported this as a bomb with zero critical thought or journalism involved, and the entire world now thinks there were bombs when it seems absurdly obvious there wasn't.
There’s video evidence that police were the first to fire, specifically teargas into a reasonably obedient crowd.
It’s after this happened things started escalating.