More severe police injuries and deaths on that one day of rampaging Trumpers than in five years of Anti-Police protests.
Nearly 140 officers were injured during pro-Trump extremists' Capitol siege \u2014 including officers who sustained brain injuries, smashed spinal discs, one who'll likely lose an eye, and another stabbed with a metal fence stake, the Capitol Police union said.https://t.co/D9jFSkKtJm
— NPR (@NPR) January 28, 2021
But they came to resist police.
Which is completely different.
Because one group is literally arguing for human dignity and the other glorifies violence.
Once you accept that... WHO is standing opposed to you doesn't matter much.
This stark difference in approaches to violence is not trivial.
This is different than violent rage consuming anything in its path.
The clashes are characterized by protesters attempting to stand ground against police assault.
Physical contact is generally unarmed
They came with an intent to intimidate, to kidnap, to kill, to destroy and to use violence to force a specific political outcome during a governmental process.
This is nothing like anti-Brutality protest.
They TOTALLY would.
But once inside, they'd sit around singing and making speeches until someone in Congress agreed to come and speak to them and hear them out.
They're two wholly different ideologies with completely different core values.
You have to do a lot of cynical acrobatics to say they're the same.
This doesn't pan out.
Anti-police protestors and BlueLivesMatter people aren't mirror images. They don't use the same tactics to reach different goals.
Similarly, Antifascism is seen as the mirror image of fascism, but none of this makes sense.
It's illogical and ridiculous.
But comforting.
People who are anti-Police brutality do not want citizens to be able to shoot cops at will.
They want nobody shooting people.
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These people weren't murdered. They were legally executed after convictions for horrendous crimes, being sentenced to the death penalty, and going through countless appeals.
You can oppose the death penalty as a punishment without pretending that the people executed were victims or that carrying out those executions is comparable to murder.
As an example: Daniel Lee was a white supremacist who murdered a family (including an 8-year-old girl) by suffocating them with bags and then dumping their bodies in a swamp.
That's whose name @CoriBush wants you to remember.
Wesley Purkey admitted to kidnapping, raping, and then murdering a 16-year-old girl named Jennifer Long. He then dismembered her body. He also beat an 80-year-old woman to death.
Maybe we should learn the names of his victims instead, @CoriBush?
Dustin Honken was a meth dealer that murdered 5 people, including 2 girls under the age of 11, because their dad was set to testify against him on drug charges. He was specifically sentenced to death for killing the 2 kids.
The 13 people murdered by Trump's death row killing spree:
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 17, 2021
Daniel Lee
Wesley Purkey
Dustin Honken
Lezmond Mitchell
Keith Nelson
William LeCroy Jr.
Christopher Vialva
Orlando Hall
Brandon Bernard
Alfred Bourgeois
Lisa Montgomery
Corey Johnson
Dustin Higgs
Say their names.
You can oppose the death penalty as a punishment without pretending that the people executed were victims or that carrying out those executions is comparable to murder.
As an example: Daniel Lee was a white supremacist who murdered a family (including an 8-year-old girl) by suffocating them with bags and then dumping their bodies in a swamp.
That's whose name @CoriBush wants you to remember.
Wesley Purkey admitted to kidnapping, raping, and then murdering a 16-year-old girl named Jennifer Long. He then dismembered her body. He also beat an 80-year-old woman to death.
Maybe we should learn the names of his victims instead, @CoriBush?
Dustin Honken was a meth dealer that murdered 5 people, including 2 girls under the age of 11, because their dad was set to testify against him on drug charges. He was specifically sentenced to death for killing the 2 kids.