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   Message 48,265 of 48,889   
   bob user to All   
   Re: Capitol police assisted the insurrec   
   28 Jul 22 22:00:33   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans, alt.politics.trump   
   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.misc   
   From: bobuser@mindspring.com   
      
   On 29 Jan 2021, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
   news:vWYQH.218$XZ1.49@fx14.iad:   
      
   > The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An   
   > Aberration   
   >   
   > Authorities are more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing   
   > protest than a right-wing protest.   
   >   
   > By Maggie Koerth   
   >   
   > Filed under Insurrection   
   >   
   > Published Jan. 7, 2021   
   >   
   > As images from Wednesday’s riot by pro-Trump extremists at the U.S.   
   > Capitol filled our TV screens and social media feeds, one thing was   
   > notably absent: the kind of confrontation between police and   
   > protesters that we saw during the Black Lives Matter protests last   
   > summer. Even though the Capitol mob was far more violent — and   
   > seditious — than the largely peaceful BLM demonstrators, police   
   > responded far less aggressively toward them than toward BLM protesters   
   > across the country. Researchers who track this sort of thing for a   
   > living say that fits a pattern.   
   >   
   > As images from Wednesday’s riot by pro-Trump extremists at the U.S.   
   > Capitol filled our TV screens and social media feeds, one thing was   
   > notably absent: the kind of confrontation between police and   
   > protesters that we saw during the Black Lives Matter protests last   
   > summer. Even though the Capitol mob was far more violent — and   
   > seditious — than the largely peaceful BLM demonstrators, police   
   > responded far less aggressively toward them than toward BLM protesters   
   > across the country. Researchers who track this sort of thing for a   
   > living say that fits a pattern.   
   >   
   > https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-   
   > capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/?cid=_inlinerelated   
   >   
   > American cops — pigs — side openly with right-wingnut terrorists   
   > and insurrectionists.   
      
   When will they begin arresting those police officers and hauling them   
   before the Jan 6 inquisition, Rudy?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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