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Friendly to police? I guess the jokes around dumb cops go a little deeper than I realized.
Isn't that funny. The government thought the insurrectionists would be friendly to the police, and the insurrectionists fully believed the police would take up arms with them to overthrow the government.
Wonder why that is? >

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses? >

Hoover's FBI would turn right around and give the confidential info from the NAACP right back to the local law enforcement who then had exactly what they needed to go out and kill the 'snitches".  
Trump's FBI did the exact same thing with the tips that came in about Kavanaugh.  Turned 'em right over to WH lawyers. >

See, that's where they got it wrong; the alt-right is not friendly to police, police are friendly to the alt-right. BIG difference. >

I feel it's like... You like Bob and you're friendly to him both at work and outside of work. Just you're both police officers and Bob is an insurrectionist. >

You know, there's always been something off about Bob. I can't figure out what it is. Maybe it's that tiki torch he keeps at his desk. >

The police force in my town in Texas is 90%
White men who clean shave their heads. I’m not saying they’re all Nazis, but it is disconcerting. >

East Texas? >

Kinda funny that a police force as described in Texas doesn’t really narrow it down that much. Central. >

It’s cop phrenology >

Politically motivated policing is insane. >

All policing is politically motivated >

when people are like "no politics here"
but just simply being alive is a political statement in this world.  
Politics encompasses everything. >

Why did you have to make politics political? >


“People didn’t think that these white nationalists would overthrow the Capitol building.”

It's insane he's really trying the "nobody saw this coming" angle...
Media was reporting it for a solid month before it happened. >

That's honestly the most infuriating part of the attempted gaslighting about this. We knew that right-wing nationalists were flooding D.C. in the weeks leading up to it, and just about every right-wing commenter on every platform were not-so-coyly making their intentions known for all of December with thinly-veiled threats like "we'll see who's president after January 6th."
If anyone says that they didn't think that these people were going to try something on January 6th, they're either willfully ignorant, unbelievably stupid, or outright lying because they had hedged their bets on the insurrection succeeding. >

Because the security intelligence breakdown was planned. Lack of security was baked into the coup plotters plan. It started when traitortrump removed Esper and installed ops at DOD  etc. Miller, Kash Patel and Flynn's brother made sure there was no security. The 3 heads of security at Capitol PD all blamed each other for the intelligence breakdown. And somewhere between 20 and 30 Capitol PD were part of the conspiracy >

Agreed and I'm disappointed that the J6 committee didn't discuss this in the hearings. Rachel Maddow flagged it as the personnel moves happened, but I don't hear many people connecting the dots to the delayed response. >

Yes. The whole overall security aspect seems to be just bits and pieces and no clear picture of what actually happened. >

To quote former GOP speaker Paul Ryan's inexplicably favorite band:
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
It wasn't necessarily that the far right would be friendly with the police, but that the police might be friendly with the far right. They certainly seem to give more leeway to the protesters than should have been expected. >

Yup... i am glad more blood was NOT shed, but i am amazed only one person was shot by police. They literally were there to kill the VPOTUS and were clearly assaulting officers. >

How many officers were killed? >

One more directly attributable, Brian Sicknick. Three more from medical complications likely exacerbated by the circumstances. Multiple suicides during the aftermath.
138 officers wounded, 15 hospitalized. >

with those stats you have to wonder how many suicides were double agents in a failed coup? >

Anybody surprised by this is so asleep. Did everyone forget those cops tossing out water bottles to Rittenhouse and his boys? >

Silly people. They’re only friendly to police when police are killing unarmed black people >

From article:
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) testified to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that a belief that far-right extremists and rioters would be “friendly” to law enforcement that day caused “intelligence failures.”
“People thought they were friendly to law enforcement and that they loved their country,” Bowser said in a newly released transcript. “People didn’t think that these white nationalists would overthrow the Capitol building.” >

Far right nationalists and racist extremists are responsible for the vast majority of recent incidents of domestic terrorism. The only left leaning terrorist violence I can think of offhand is the congressional baseball shooting.
The far right is actively hostile to the USA. Cops really shouldn't consider them friendly. >

Our countries true colors show when white nationalists and extremists can have mass shootings, intimidate voters at polls, intimidate lgbtq people, and even try to overthrow the government and the government seems to actively push back against doing anything about it. Hell trump is the general that they all listen to and the government will bend over backwards to prevent anything bad happening to him >

"Back the blue till it happens to you." James Freeman >

"Back the blue, until they prevent our coup!" >

because the cops are traitors too >

She is exactly correct. These imbeciles had been kissing the ass of every law enforcement person they met for several years, giving a false sense that they "supported" them. They turned into a mob quickly, just like other "protestors" they claimed to abhor. >

Why no! No! Police are friendly to far-right extremists. >

“Sorry, we thought the traitors were on our side.” >

Just because they're the enemy of my enemy, it doesn't mean that they are my friend. >

DC Police were wholly ignorant to the fact that “back the blue” meant literally “stabbing capitol police in the back.” >

There are many in the police that are part of the same extremist groups that attempted a coup on 6 January 2022.  
In MAGA fascism, police violence against "the other" is called good policing while the police are to defend MAGA fascist who engage in violence. >

Funny thing about fascists. When you’re doing what they want they like you. When you’re not doing what they want they may try and kill you. 
The police are only useful to the alt right while you’re helping them. >

Wondering about the Capitol Police suicides…
Do you think it was PTSD, the trauma of being physically attacked by protesters, or maybe the realization that they’d backed the wrong horse…? 
Haven’t seen much of anything on this, sincerely wondering… >

Several cops literally got beaten with Blue Lives Matter flags.  These people don't actually respect law enforcement - they support the police as long as it means they're beating/killing people of color. >

Sure.  White Nationalists would see White police as allies in an effort to support a White but orange tinged president.  Those in the intelligence ranks being White could be reasonably be seen amending intell reports to downplay the radical thoughts held tight to the breasts of the attackers.  That White crowd would obviously spend hours peacefully milling about the capitol and then politely disburse as Whites always do (which is the majority White Republican belief to this very day).  She ain't wrong. >

I mean…
How fucking stupid are you? >

Why would he think such a stupid thing?  Because they said so?  Does he really think the anti-abortion, book burning party is also for limited government and individual liberties just because they said so?  Don't take the dog whistles literally.  Just because someone cheers on the police brutalizing minorities doesn't mean they actually support the police. >

The far right extremists are friendly to the police when the police's interests align with their own. In the one specific instance of Jan 6, their interests clashed, so right wingers were eager to kill cops. But in every other facet of what police do, from racial profiling to indiscriminate killing to literally violating the Geneva Convention on BLM protestors, the right wingers and cops are in lockstep with one another. >

The idiocy in most law enforcement is amazing. >

That’s her reasoning? >

Yet I have not heard of any mass firings of law enforcement for proving that they are incapable of doing the job we pay them to do from out of our tax dollars.
They had one job. >

Oh I get it, it resulted from the fact that far right extremists are within the DC police. Makes sense >

I still want an answer why none of these people that assaulted police and tried to overthrow the government were arrested even hours after they were told to leave the Capitol >

They are always saying how much they love the cops. >

Who cares if the mob is friendly to police. It's still a mob. If you could line the steps with police dressed up like they're going to fight a cyber war 10 men deep for a BLM march, you could spare more than a dozen or so cops for what you knew was an insurrection in the works. Imagine them saying this about anything else the police deal with. "Well, the bank robbers were white and went to church, so we just sent one officer figuring they'd be friendly." >

You’d think they couldn’t possibly be this stupid. Hard to tell the difference between Malice and Ineptitude. >

They assumed and made an a$$ out of you and me.