I’m not sure that’s true: https://mobile.twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1347174957613199...
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Thanks for sharing. A lot of the narratives about police helping them did seem a bit over the top. The videos don't look great but it's also easy to cherry pick videos and photos to make it look like that. That being said, it still doesn't explain how lenient they were on the mob, while in other instances during summer protests they were far more aggressive.
In the very scene where the girl got shot, if you look from a different angle, you see there were a dozen riot police behind them doing basically nothing [0]. I have yet to find a satisfying explanation for it, considering the protesters were literally smashing doors and windows. [1]
Well in the police brutality protests, there were days and days of protest, escalating, with lots of bad feeling on both sides.
And, let's be frank here: people were protesting the police, and the police took it personally. They felt threatened.
I guess it's too much to ask for them to be professional and to uphold the law?
Police should also be professional and uphold the law.
I have personally witnessed police brutality in my community. Have you?
Sometimes people interpret explanation as justification. Particularly when they are upset.
To say that the police felt threatened by protests aimed at the police, and that because of that, the police acted more brutally than they otherwise might have, is not a justification of police brutality. It is an explanation.
> protesters outnumbering cops "100 to 1"
That's the relevant point, not whether or not the cops removed the barrier. The cops knew that hundreds of protesters were planning in on breaking into the capital building to assassinate senators, and purposely didn't send anyone to stop them. The whole thing was literally planned in public on social media.
IIRC there is a budget in the hundreds of millions meant specifically to protect that building.