I mean maybe some got some hits in. I was just like 10 feet away from this and the crowd was universal in "get him up get him up! Give him water! Dont hurt him!" And also that people were constantly ripping people away when they did that. It was no different than the shield wall. Like randon weapons were showing up and making there way to the front and besides everyone asking each other WTF we did our best to get these out of peoples hands and on the ground at the front. At a certain point the guys in the front were grabbing all this and tossing it into no mans land between us and the police, which yes I get it sound violent except that they had a solid tetsudo going with their shields and getting all that shit into no mans land wasnt hurting them and kept it out of peoples hands to break more windows, and it also made it a lot harder for our guys to rush in and hurt themselves.
Bottom line it was absolutely chaotic, people had very high emotions, but i was very proud of the crowd as a whole in policing themselves.
That does all sound inherently violent and the cop for sure died. Idk I’m just sad at the fallout if he was a Trump supporter like his Twitter seemed to indicate. And a veteran too. Dude seemed like a patriot but caught in a tough spot following orders to protect the Capitol.
Yes it is inherently violent to beat, pepper spray and tear gas unarmed protestors incessantly for hours straight, especially after not even 2 minutes after arriving to the Capital we found out Pence wasnt even going to bother doing his responsibility. Especially when we watched all summer as police knelt and watched burning, looting and murdering and not dishing out any type of response close to what they dished out on the 6th. It is also inherently violent to kill unarmed women.
But yah we should cast blame and shame on the unarmed protestors for acts they performed not even 1/100 in magnitude than what was recieved. /s
I mean maybe some got some hits in. I was just like 10 feet away from this and the crowd was universal in "get him up get him up! Give him water! Dont hurt him!" And also that people were constantly ripping people away when they did that. It was no different than the shield wall. Like randon weapons were showing up and making there way to the front and besides everyone asking each other WTF we did our best to get these out of peoples hands and on the ground at the front. At a certain point the guys in the front were grabbing all this and tossing it into no mans land between us and the police, which yes I get it sound violent except that they had a solid tetsudo going with their shields and getting all that shit into no mans land wasnt hurting them and kept it out of peoples hands to break more windows, and it also made it a lot harder for our guys to rush in and hurt themselves.
Bottom line it was absolutely chaotic, people had very high emotions, but i was very proud of the crowd as a whole in policing themselves.
That does all sound inherently violent and the cop for sure died. Idk I’m just sad at the fallout if he was a Trump supporter like his Twitter seemed to indicate. And a veteran too. Dude seemed like a patriot but caught in a tough spot following orders to protect the Capitol.
Yes it is inherently violent to beat, pepper spray and tear gas unarmed protestors incessantly for hours straight, especially after not even 2 minutes after arriving to the Capital we found out Pence wasnt even going to bother doing his responsibility. Especially when we watched all summer as police knelt and watched burning, looting and murdering and not dishing out any type of response close to what they dished out on the 6th. It is also inherently violent to kill unarmed women.
But yah we should cast blame and shame on the unarmed protestors for acts they performed not even 1/100 in magnitude than what was recieved. /s