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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 06:31 PM Jan 2021

'I had no qualms': The people turning in loved ones for the Capitol attack

When Alison Lopez discovered her uncle’s sister had been part of the mob that breached the Capitol doors on 6 January, she immediately reported her to the FBI. “I had no second thoughts,” she said.

Lopez found out about her in-law’s participation when the woman in question called her aunt from inside the Capitol to brag about “taking back the election”. Lopez, who is 42, said she had known the relative her whole life but had “no qualms” about reporting her.

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Leslie, who considers herself far left politically, said she had watched in horror as vigilantes stormed the Capitol on 6 January, only to learn days later her estranged mother was one of them.

(Snip)

“I am really, really angry that I have essentially lost my family to a cult,” she said. “I am angry that people were not taking the rise of QAnon more seriously. People kept saying, ‘nobody is actually going to do anything, it is just a bunch of idiots online’.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/capitol-attack-reporting-family-internet-sleuths-qanon?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

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'I had no qualms': The people turning in loved ones for the Capitol attack (Original Post) JonLP24 Jan 2021 OP
Isn't her uncle's sister her aunt? n/t malaise Jan 2021 #1
Or mom. C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #2
Could be but I assumed she'd say that malaise Jan 2021 #5
My brother's sister is not my sister exboyfil Jan 2021 #3
Possible n/t malaise Jan 2021 #6
I'm guessing the uncle married one of her parent's siblings JI7 Jan 2021 #8
LOL malaise Jan 2021 #10
My maternal's aunt's husband is my uncle obamanut2012 Jan 2021 #12
True but we called all of our aunts husbands uncle malaise Jan 2021 #13
Her uncle is married to her aunt (mother's sister). He comes from another family and has a sister.nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #14
Her aunt married a guy, technically making him her uncle Duppers Jan 2021 #15
Maybe he is her uncle by marriage . My sister's husbands brothers are not my kid's uncles. tblue37 Jan 2021 #17
You are only blood related to your parents' siblings Drahthaardogs Jan 2021 #18
I would have no qualms about it Cirque du So-What Jan 2021 #4
Same here! Duppers Jan 2021 #16
Good on her Deuxcents Jan 2021 #7
I'd do it in a heartbeat. roamer65 Jan 2021 #9
Awkward Thanksgiving dinner..... brooklynite Jan 2021 #11

obamanut2012

(26,080 posts)
12. My maternal's aunt's husband is my uncle
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 07:32 PM
Jan 2021

But, I'm not related to his sister. I know his sister pretty well, but she isn't technically a relative (except in a Southern "cousin" way).

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
15. Her aunt married a guy, technically making him her uncle
Mon Jan 18, 2021, 05:28 AM
Jan 2021

By marriage. But his sister is not her aunt.

I think that fits. 😁




Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
18. You are only blood related to your parents' siblings
Mon Jan 18, 2021, 06:47 AM
Jan 2021

Not their spouses. Their spouses siblings are not considered your relatives

Deuxcents

(16,248 posts)
7. Good on her
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 06:44 PM
Jan 2021

I have lost a couple of family members to the cult. I should hope they never go that far but if they did.. I’d make that phone call, too. I’ve made myself sick thinking about it.

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