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Well I can assure you the protesters in Minneapolis were violent, destructive, and I personally saw hundreds of protesters looting stores, breaking ATMs, smashi
by eric_b 5y ago
Well I can assure you the protesters in Minneapolis were violent, destructive, and I personally saw hundreds of protesters looting stores, breaking ATMs, smashing windows etc. etc. Hell, the protesters even burned down the police precinct.
The riots in Minneapolis were worse by every metric than Jan 6. And in some cases orders of magnitude (cost of damage, for one). And I'll tell you what else - a lot more people are going to jail for the Jan 6 riots than the Minneapolis ones.
- woodruffw 5y agoI can't speak for Minneapolis, because I don't live there. But I'm actively invested, as a New Yorker, in dispelling myths about what it was like here. As for whether things were "worse": I consider the political and cultural damage of storming our nation's Capitol worse than just about anything you can put a bill of damage on. You can't put that kind of cultural trespass back in the box the way you can with "ordinary" protests and riots.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoNot that there is a reason to compare the two, but a mob of people going after the elected leaders of a democratic country, especially during election procedures, has far more implications and ramifications on a country than looting.
- ryan93 5y agoIts actually much worse to unleash violence on poor communities and immigrant business owners.
- eric_b 5y ago
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI would have said the same thing if non Trumpers stormed the building containing a country’s political leaders performing election procedures to certify the country’s new leaders.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThe social/political affiliations of the people involved is not the only variable by a long shot.
- woodruffw 5y agoAt least 85 people have been charged with carrying or using a weapon during the riot[1]. It seems like a large number were knives and other blades which, while not as eye-popping as carrying a rifle into the Capitol, are just as illegal. [1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-weapons-charges https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot...
- jcranmer 5y agoLast week, 11 people were indicted under the seditious conspiracy statute 18 USC §2384--basically, by force attempt to overthrow the government. Part of the allegations ([1] is the full indictment) include that they amassed a weapons cache in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from DC, to be ready for use when the time came for it. Oh, and this was the less extreme of the anti-Obama militias. [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1462481/download https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1462481/downl...