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Originally Posted by nick619
nick what do you think that new video footage shows that no one knew prior or was denying?
I have not seen a single person suggest that the insurrectionists were only acting like lunatics wilding through the halls.
In fact the most effective strategy they had was to keep calm, proceed ever inward and then surround the officers, thus overwhelming them by numbers at which case the cops all said they would be afraid to try to use any of their weapons lest the nutjobs took them from and used them on them, under a justification of 'the cops tried threatened us first.'
For instance these photos do not show wilding but they absolutely show an insurrection where they were overwhelming the policing in an attempt to stop the legal proceedings going on inside.
And that is exactly why the shooting of Ashli Babbitt albeit tragic was completely justified.
The cries of 'but she was not threatening anyone' are silly and false.
Had she, followed by a stream of others refused to yield and flooded the room, arms out like the guy above the security protecting the Congress people would completely lose any ability to protect them from the mob.
You can say 'the mob meant no harm', 'the mob would only have been nice' and speculate any way you want that nothing bad would have happened had they just let it happen, but at no time is security obligated to allow that to happen and in so doing give up all their power to stop any bad thing from happening.
If you don't believe me just try to walk up to the POTUS, arms up and out and refuse to stop when ordered. In your heart mean no harm but do it anyway, and see what happens. And watch the Secret Service get off without charges if they kill you.