The Police Should Have Started Shooting

[SoCalDavidS]

I thought it then when I watched it live, and I'm absolutely thinking it now.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Agree

It could have been much deadlier. When they broke windows if they would have shot the first few people who came through it would have ended it.

[onecaliberal]

2. Absolutely. If they were not white it would have been a blood bath.

[Diablo del sol]

3. without a doubt

would have no issue with them being mowed down.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. Didn't The Cops Have The Right To Defend Themselves??? nt

[Bucky]

12. "Stand your ground" makes sense for a fascist state, but we're a nation of laws

Even if our enemies don't live by the code of proportional response and deescalation of tensions, the friends of democracy need to. The Capitol Police held the line and people who support the rule of "We the People" need to hold the line too.

[enough]

19. I can't believe I'm reading this on DU.

[Jake97]

22. I'm a troll so....

[UnderThisLaw]

26. Hush!

Trolling is allowed here, just don’t admit it

[WarGamer]

44. Evidently Authoitariansim is now A-OK when directed at GOP'ers. (for some)

[Diablo del sol]

49. I have zero issue with my statement

This was not a riot gone bad. Why was Tarrio carrying high cap magazines? Answer is simple, to kill as many liberals as he could once they brought the weapons in via the river.

So they breached the Capital, as soon as that occurred it was no longer a riot. No longer civil disobedience. No longer one set of rules for repukes and another for liberals. It is the only thing they understand.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Emotionally, yeah, but in the grand scheme of things it probably wouldn't have helped...

the fact is there weren't enough cops there to stem the riot, and opening fire would have just increased the blood lust of the rioters.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Most other nations (included the "soft" ones) would have shot them all dead.

[Bucky]

9. I understand your anger, but the Capitol Police handled the mob right

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. I just told wifey that I cannot believe more shots were not fired....

honestly, by both sides.

[Bucky]

15. The Proud Boys had armed men on stand-by.

There were definitely gun in the crowd. Had the police or anyone started shooting, it would have been a blood bath.

The bloodshed would have been historically clarifying (and that's why people in the 19th century said that war was history's forest fires), but it would have been bad for civilization itself.

I'm angry at them too, but we need to deescalate the attacks on civilization, not build to a climax.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/09/trump-extremists-guns-january-6-insurrection-congress-domestic-terrorism/

[crickets]

54. +1

[Emile]

11. I couldn't believe they were not shooting!

Our country was under attack by traitors!

[Justice matters.]

40. Next time (if that orange putler servant is not jailed...)

they will.

[dweller]

13. They were not armed

It was in a memo from some higher up that were not to be armed

Hope someone finds it, and can back me up

✌🏻

[Bucky]

17. ...except for the ones who were armed

[dweller]

21. I'm talking about metro pd

Not the insurrectionists

✌🏻

[atreides1]

29. Nope

You're thinking the D.C. National Guard...both Capitol police officers and MPD were armed! Remember Sergeant Fanone testified that the traitors were trying to take his weapon from him...when he was grabbed and dragged into the crowd...Fanone was a member of MPD!

Also it was a Capitol police officer who shot the woman that was attempting to climb through a window!

[dweller]

30. You are probably right

I just remember the memo (read it) but it was very long ago

And I’ll wonder along with others, why didn’t they open fire




✌🏻

[Bucky]

24. Google "Oath Keepers Quick Reaction Force" for info on their fire arms

[dweller]

25. Again, I'm talking about the metro pd

Not the insurrectionists


✌🏻

[Bobstandard]

14. The video shows cops with sidearms

Some may not have been armed but others clearly were.

[enough]

16. No

[enough]

18. No

Where do you think we would be now if that had been a massacre?

[Mr.Bill]

58. On the winning side. n/t

[ellie]

20. Yes,

They should have shot every one of those Anti-American motherfuckers.

[MichMan]

32. Once the first hundred bodies started piling up, the rest would have run away

[Tarc]

23. Indeed. The only tragedy in Ashli Babbitt's demise was that it stopped there

another dozen dead terrorists would've stemmed the tide.

[nolabear]

27. They'd have been killed.

I don’t know what I think about what they should have done. But I know they wouldn’t have made it out alive.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

28. No. It would have been much worse than it was.

[mvd]

39. The big problem is that..

Trump obviously knew about it beforehand and left the Capitol unguarded. Then he didn’t call reinforcements. If the officers just started shooting everyone, Trump probably would have declared martial law. He’s that demented.

[crickets]

55. This is another good point.

Martial Law was part of the plan. Because the guns didn't come out on either side, tfg was robbed of the excuse.

[Red Mountain]

31. Nothing but respect for the Capital Police

If I were in charge, I'd have authorized lethal force

If I were there defending the Capital, I'd have used it.

It would have been awful and given our international enemies a lot of material.

Could you imagine blood running down the Capital steps?

They made the right choice......if we recognize the amazing restraint they showed.

[JanMichael]

36. That was my thought as well. They did the right thing

If I was there and in charge it would have been a much worse event. A river of fascist blood would have flowed down the steps.

It would have been more seriously violent.

But fortunately very calm cops did the right thing. They didn't escalate the situation.

[Meowmee]

33. I wonder what people would say if the seditionists had

Murdered Pence, Pelosi and others… at what point do you draw a line and do whatever is needed to prevent a bloodbath and to defend people’s lives..

[Crunchy Frog]

34. I posted it that day and it got removed.

If it had been BLM, there would have been piles of bodies.

[Chainfire]

35. If the police escalated the violence by opening fire on a crowd that big, it would have been suicide

It is a national shame that, with all of the hints, of potential violence, in the days leading up to the insurrection, that just a handful of cops were left to deal with thousands of angry protesters. That is another issued that needs an investigation.

The courage of the Capitol Police, delaying the breech, against overwhelming odds, is what saved the lives of the lawmakers.

[MichMan]

43. Suicide for the protesters

[ecstatic]

53. Half of whom are super ungrateful

[Kaleva]

37. No. That might have gotten the millions of heavily armed MAGAHATs out in the streets

[Celerity]

50. +1

[DemocraticPatriot]

38. Goddamn right!

All the potential targets were actual traitors, after all....

[Kid Berwyn]

41. Probably the point.

Then MF45 could declare “Marshall Law.”

[MichMan]

42. Is that now the standard protocol if anyone enters the Capital without proper authority?

Hopefully we've learned something

[Pyryck]

45. I think TFG actually was hoping for that to happen

Because then he would have cause to declare martial, put a hold on everything and made himself out to be the hero of the day.

[jalan48]

47. Yes, he was looking for a reason to take over and restore order.

[pfitz59]

57. If bullets flew

Trump would have had an excuse to declare Martial Law

[Maru Kitteh]

46. I posted that as an OP on the 1/6 as I left for work

It wasn’t allowed to stand - but I believed it then, I believe it now.

[Shellback Squid]

48. 'not until fired upon"

the organizers knew this

[BannonsLiver]

51. There's merit to both views on this

I agree with those who say Trump might have used it to his advantage but I also think a few well placed rounds probably sends about 3/4 of those imps running for the hills, particularly when they breached the outer perimeter and were running en mass to the steps. In that scenario there might have been fewer people there to breach the actual building making it more or a fair fight for police.

Of course it’s all hindsight.

[ecstatic]

52. I think they would have if the insurrectionists were black

It was kind of shocking to see the guns securely tucked away in their waistbands.

That said, once the nazis/insurrectionists breached the first perimeter, the cops probably figured (correctly) that they were outgunned. Can you imagine the carnage? It would have been terrible.

[usajumpedtheshark]

56. Again and again we hear that the police are justified to use lethal force if they feel endangered

A black man holding a cell phone is killed because an officer felt unsafe but not traitors who are physically attacking the police?