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Pardoning those people was a big green light signal to do it again.
This question is really revealing about the psychology around political violence. And how violence by one side can simply not even be seen as such.
Would you call the BLM rioting in the summer of 2020 political violence?
Until recently, assaulting cops and killing one would have been called a violent crime by pretty much everyone but the fringe revolutionary left but now it's somehow a partisan take…