@Leadfoot,
Quote:God damn it! you people are stupid. You are the same ******* people who condemn the killing of students at Kent State (and that includes me) and yet here you condemn the cops for not doing the same now.
Except for the one woman killed, the capitol police and security people earned a lot of respect for their restraint. Can you even imagine the nightmare we'd be facing today if they had open fired??
And you stupid fucks rant about **** on the wall.
I think maybe the people who are amazed at them retreating are amazed that they weren't better prepared...knowing the very high likelihood of what was coming.
They could have had:
- better fencing
- front lines and/or riot teams in place
- tear gas if the front lines crumbled
- rubber bullets if rioters passed a particular line.
There are other non lethal measures they could have had in place. But it didn't seem like they were prepared at all. And they knocked back aid, from the FBI which was offered twice - obviously out of concern that it would get out of control with the numbers they had...but...nothing........
From that point of view, I'm incredibly surprised by them 'not doing anything'. Given the sheer predictability of this, and the lack of any sort of suitable preparation, I can only come to conclusion the piss poor decision making was influenced by race. Another colleague at work went 'but what if it was a ploy for Biden to be able to justify doing what he wants'...