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by rswail 1490 days ago
The only person shot was an unarmed terrorist that, after repeated warnings not to proceed, while attempting to break through a barrier that was keeping a mob away from elected representatives, broke through that barrier.

I think it shows remarkable restraint by the security and protection officers that more people weren't shot on January 6th.

And it is untrue that "civilians" "chose" not to bring guns. There were numerous people that had preparations to be armed and were actively working to that end.

They are currently being tried for sedition.

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> after repeated warnings not to proceed

Untrue, there was no warning. Crowd was let in (there is security footage of this), funneled to a location, and a killzone was setup without their knowledge. The antifa person filming the death was the only person hurling threats in that specific interaction. Both hands of the civilian shot were visible when climbing through the window. Officer could have arrested when she made it through. I guess we're for shooting on sight now.

> I think it shows remarkable restraint by the security and protection officers that more people weren't shot on January 6th.

Yes let's praise cops for not killing more unarmed civilians than they did, very high bar!

> there were numerous people that had preparations to be armed and were actively working to that end.

What a long way to say they didn't bring guns to the event. Any CCW holder has preparations to be armed.

> sedition

Point to a case, noone is being tried for sedition, only trespassing.