Surprise surprise, 4 out of 5 of the people who died at the capitol hill riots were unarmed and non-violent pro-trump supporters, the one none Trump supporter killed was a cop who was struck in the head while he was actively beating people with his baton, effectively the one initiating violence and the crowd defended itself by the sound of it, in the interaction he got struck and died a day later from the head injury. Its sad that he got hit and I dont justify the violence overall, but if your the one sitting there beating people with a stick people fighting back is kind of the expectation, its not an acceptable tactic against unarmed civilians IMO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/who-died-in-capitol-building-attack.html
@freemo Of the four, one was crushed by other rioters, one died of a heart attack, one died of a stroke, and the Air For veteran was trying to break into the Senate chamber.
I understand your point about police, but this is IMO a bad take. These people should not have been in the Capitol in the first place, and there were others in the crowd who did intend to do harm to legislators.
@freemo Good. Having said that, I think I need to go to sleep. I clearly misread your take on the first place, and I should wait until I don't have alcohol in my system
@mathlover Sleep well, enjoy the alcohol sleeps :)
@mathlover What you said was in no way over the top, rude, or inappropriate. Having said it was entierly acceptable.
I am simply pointing out that we arent in disagreement and everything you said is more or less in line with what I said.