Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
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Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#2Related to Cap police taking selfies with pre-rioters and opening the barriers for them and waving them in?
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#3The US has a very difficult to problem to solve within the ranks of its police. They've become militarized to an extreme degree, which is in turn either moving their rank-and-file more to the right, or attracting those who are already there, or both. The NYPD, as an example, have had multiple instances of openly supporting Trump while on duty [0] and just yesterday, I think it was the head of Chicago police union severely downplayed the Capitol riot and even openly sympathized with them in the media [1]. Add on top of that the images of the Capitol police either taking selfies with the rioters or moving the gates out of the way to let them in, and yeah, you've got a problem.
I hopefully don't need to further elucidate why that polarization is a very bad thing. It amazes me that so many of my friends -- I'm white, middle-class, from the Midwest -- do not understand why so many fellow citizens are afraid of the cops and feel like there are two systems in place.
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/nypd-officer-trump-2020-suspended-j...
[1] https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-police-union-bos...
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#4Related to Cap police taking selfies with pre-rioters and opening the barriers for them and waving them in?
Completely. At this point its obvious there was collusion with elements of law enforcement. The bigger issue is that the FBI and DOJ have known for a while that many local law enforcement departments has been ideologically compromised by Right Extremism and doing nothing about it[0]
[0]https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidd...
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#5Same people here complaining why federal help was rejected would be complaining why federal help was sent if it was a BLM riot.
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#6The US has a very difficult to problem to solve within the ranks of its police. They've become militarized to an extreme degree, which is in turn either moving their rank-and-file more to the right, or attracting those who are already there, or both. The NYPD, as an example, have had multiple instances of openly supporting Trump while on duty [0] and just yesterday, I think it was the head of Chicago police union sev…
> I hopefully don't need to further elucidate why that polarization is a very bad thing
This isn't polarization, it's radicalization.
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#7The Capitol Police report to Nancy Pelosi, I wonder if she was told about the federal intel that rioters were planning to "storm" the Capitol (in reality they more just waltzed in).
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#8Same people here complaining why federal help was rejected would be complaining why federal help was sent if it was a BLM riot.
Very poor read on the room from where I'm standing, people are complaining precisely that the responses weren't symmetrical, which would be the definition of white privledge in this country.
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#9The US has a very difficult to problem to solve within the ranks of its police. They've become militarized to an extreme degree, which is in turn either moving their rank-and-file more to the right, or attracting those who are already there, or both. The NYPD, as an example, have had multiple instances of openly supporting Trump while on duty [0] and just yesterday, I think it was the head of Chicago police union sev…
His interview was apparently before the DC officer succumbed to his injuries, otherwise he would have used a different word dance to try to explain why this was different than anarchists rioting at BLM protests.
Re: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell rioting
#10Same people here complaining why federal help was rejected would be complaining why federal help was sent if it was a BLM riot.
BLM Riots against murdering black people != those in power refusing to accept elections.
This whataboutism meme needs to stop.