"If we wanted to kill every DC police officer there; we could have..."

[EarthFirst]

“Make no mistake about it...”

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[texasfiddler]

1. This is terrorism. Plain and simple.

He should be treated no different from an ISIS terrorist discovered in the U.S.

[gademocrat7]

2. This is the face of racist evil.

He belongs in prison.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I never heard any real estimates on the size of the crowd.

It didn't really look like there were all that many at the Capitol. Maybe the building dwarfed the people out in front of it. I went there twice when I was young, and the main thing I remember is the especially large number of steps. But the size of the crowd, I think, is important and I haven't heard an authoritative figure on that.

[uncle ray]

7. many thousands, probably tens of thousands.

it was quite a big lynch mob. some videos you could see the streets packed for blocks outside the capitol building.

[Turin_C3PO]

8. Estimates I saw were 30-40 thousand.

Not bad but many liberal marches have had far, far more attendees.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. Thanks, I'm not good at guessing crowd sizes.

Usually the National Park Service comes out with an estimate, but I didn't see one this time.

[Nexus2]

12. I've heard estimates that place the number in the 10s of thousands gathered in the area (nt)

[texasfiddler]

4. Place him on a permanent no fly list now.

[DFW]

5. And if the cops had wanted to, they could have killed 1000 or more of the invaders

It's not like they were elusive targets, were they? Fish in a barrel would have been harder to hit.

Ergo, who was holding back, hmmm?

[mopinko]

6. no shit.

what an idiot. how many of them even had weapons? besides their horns, i mean.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. Sounds like

the Capitol police were constrained from the top. According to the reports I’ve seen, the vast majority wanted to do their jobs but were restricted by not being allowed to use deadly force. Plus, there was no backup. The question is how high does the conspiracy go. All the way up to Trump? The DOD brass? All will come out soon enough.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

10. Lock. It. Up.

Creepy Nazi POS.

[EarthFirst]

13. I'm kicking this to the top again...

Just so everyone is clear about their motivations...