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