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by wwright 1984 days ago
Given that there were literally millions of protestors on the streets over the summer, 20 is a pretty tiny number. Multiple people have already died from the DC attacks, just in two days in one city, with a much smaller number of people.

That’s just comparing the number of deaths, and putting aside that one was a massive distributed protest of government brutality and the other was an attempted coup.
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disgrunt 1984 days ago
So five Trump supporters are killed and that's not police brutality? I just want to make sure I got this narrative straight.
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shadowgovt 1984 days ago
One tased himself to death, one was trampled to death by the mob, and one was one-shot killed by the Secret Service after a clear warning to not pass through a heavy barricade.

Of these, only one was a police-action killing, and I would not call it brutality based on the video evidence.

I have no idea the story on the fourth.

The fifth death is a cop the Trump supporters beat to a pulp with a fire extinguisher.

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wwright 1984 days ago
Yes, it is also police brutality, that is correct. The people fighting the police (many of whom are police themselves, and whom some police are collaborating with) also just attempted a violent coup. So they all suck. And surprisingly, Donald Trump managed to support all of the ones doing the systematic violence AND the ones attempting violent coups.

So really, yes, it all around sucks, and we need to fix a lot. But some people are clearly hurting more than helping! Maybe when they’re gone, we can finally focus on fixing these longstanding systemic problems rather than arguing about a man-child.

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pure_tribe 1984 days ago
And the "white supremacist terrorism" your parent commenter references kills how many?

"The DHS’s “Homeland Threat Assessment” found that White supremacy extremism accounted for more fatal attacks in the U.S. than any other domestic violent extremist group since 2018, with eight of the 16 violent reported from 2018 through 2019."

For comparison, 9/11 killed 2,977 people. So it seems there is a problem with how DHS is measuring and reporting rare events.

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