538 tweeted by Obama: "The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration"

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 10:48pm |

I figure this recommendation requires starting another thread on what happened with the Capitol Police. If I don't give its own post, someone else would.

For those who are wondering why so much attention has been focused on the response of the Capitol Police to the Trump-inspired riots, here’s a data-driven article that provides some useful frame of reference. https://t.co/MAdlWGRd23
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 8, 2021

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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/

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Obama also added these two other articles as sub-tweets:

And here’s one that is more anecdotal.https://t.co/Qzpw8mCi39
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 8, 2021

And here’s a look back at the response to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.https://t.co/IYTfawbWe5
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 10:51pm

Anecdotal? 1960s...

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:01pm

Those soldiers appear to have rifles loaded with blanks, for whatever that is worth if it is actually the case. Notice the cross shaped extensions on the rifle barrels. Those appear, though I cannot be sure, to be suppressors which insert into the barrel so as to offer enough resistance to the blanks gas because they have a smaller powder load than a standard bullet. This is to operate the automatic feed of the next round. A standard bullet cannot be fired with a blank suppressor in place.

by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:45pm

Uhhh... Lulu...

You ever gotten whacked in the face
with the butt or barrel of a carbine?

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 11:33am

Nope, with a couple other things but never with either end of a carbine. But, if it came to a confrontation I would much rather someone swing a gun at me than shoot me with it. My comment was just to say what I think the tactical situation was, not to make any judgment about it.

by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 12:14pm

I found the description interesting, thanx. And better to be the butt of a joke than meet the butt of a gun. Even if the business end not a barrel of laughs.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 12:53pm

Data?

Don't need no stinking data.

Authorities are more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing protest than a right-wing protest?

Tell us something that's been obvious for decades.

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 10:55pm

Water is wet

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:23pm

Maggie Haberman just tweeted this video"

This video is horrifying. https://t.co/EwjxLx2Xdz
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 9, 2021

adding copy of this thread IT WASN’T STRICTLY A COUP ATTEMPT. (discussion and more links long video PP posted this afternoon at end of this thread followed)

Amazing video

reply

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 4:03pm

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:25pm

another reaction to the crushed in the door video, with 4,000 retweets, 14k likes (he has a ton of followers, best selling crime and mystery author, has been a strong anti-Trump voice)

If you watch the video they just played on @CNN of the officer being crushed in the door by the mob of domestic terrorists I promise you will never suggest "moving on"

This is so awful

We can't be this

We have prosecute every person responsible to the fullest extent of the law
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 1:15am

I'd simply like to stress that the definition of lefties and righties is waaaay more fungible these days, he's got it in short:

The rioters wanted to kidnap and hang Mike Pence. For not forsaking his constitutional duties and altering the certified results of an American election.

Who the fuck have we become?
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) January 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:28pm

The death shot of Ashli Babbitt

From that JaydenX video tha Paracles posted.

https://youtu.be/PfiS8MsfSF4?t=2103

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 11:46am

My opinion, Washington Post's "what happened?" is the best on topic I have read so far:

How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure

By Peter Hermann, Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis and David A. Fahrenthold. Maria Sacchetti, Devlin Barrett, Paul Sonne, Tom Jackman, Rachel Weiner, Ovetta Wiggins, Laura Vozzella, Michael Brice-Saddler, Dan Lamothe and Colby Itkowitz contributed to this report.

Jan. 8, 2021 at 12:15 a.m. EST

Doh! Why didn't I check the pros from Dover earlier? They've only been covering D.C. since 1877.

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 4:06pm

Mark Levitt @ JustSecurity.org, June 9: Tragedy at the Capitol: Four Questions that Demand Answers

[....[ In what follows, I highlight four initial questions to focus on:

Was the District of Columbia National Guard properly deployed and resourced?

What prevented other state National Guards from being expeditiously deployed?

What role do other federal law enforcement have and why did the DC police have to play such a critical role in the Capitol’s defense?

What other assets may have assisted?

[....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 4:13pm

Maggie Haberman recommended this one from the NBC congressional reporter by retweeting it:

.⁦@haleytalbotnbc⁩’s account of what it was like inside the House chamber is absolutely chilling, as all of these stories have been. I’m in awe of her always but especially right now. Read her story >> https://t.co/qqfDC4JOpH
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) January 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 5:25pm

What does the Capitol police do? More traffic stops and low level drug war enforcement than you'd think https://t.co/vqEiM6zhel
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) January 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 5:51pm

538 tweeted by Obama: "The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration"

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