One of many big questions from last night: to what extent was this a massive failure on the part of the police, and to what extent was it intentional complicity
I was at a handful of BLM protests in front of the White House last summer. This can not be emhpasized enough: if they treated the Trumpists the same way they treated BLM, they would have opened fire.
Remember, protesting is only a crime when it’s against President Emperor God King Trump.
Protesting has been a crime long before trump. Bush enacted "free speech zones" in which if you didn't protest right there out of the way you would be arrested. And we're kidding ourselves if we said that's the start of it.
[Image Description: tweet from Molly Crabapple, verified, @ MollyCrabapple. It says "On January 20, 2017, the day off Trump's inauguration, police kettle 217 anti-trump protesters in the freezing cold and arrested them after sixteen hours.
Prosecutors then tried to put them in prison for 70+ years, on the accusation that all of them collectively broke a window." End ID]
My input was mainly a snarky comment at how there’s quite the double standard, but...
Thank you for that contemporary history lesson! Much appreciated.
Oops sorry. Not to be a cliche, but I don't recognize snark before my caffeine intake.