More than 140 people were injured in the storming. Five people died either shortly before, during, or after the event.
It's amazing and almost humorous that these wingnuts think that they're going to gaslight the world into believing that the Jan. 6 attempt to overthrow democracy was just a harmless group of people that did nothing more than trespass.
It's not going to work. We know what we saw:
An extremely violent mob of several thousand people attempting to stop the certification of the freely and legally elected President in order to force the continuation of Trump's Presidency. It was an insurrection against Democracy and against America.
The fact that they did not have any firearms does not change the lethal nature of their attack. We CAN assume that if they had succeeded in getting to Congress they would have murdered at several Congresspeople and the vice-President. There is no reason to assume otherwise.
All those who participated deserve a minimum of 5 years in prison, and the worst of them should get at least 25 years.
Again, what mechanism that they could have applied with the tools and numbers on hand could have led to an overthrow of the government?
Do you argue that they could not physically have killed Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez or any of the other elected officials for whom they were hunting?
They could have started killing the cops they were getting past and they didn't. They didn't kill the media people recording them.
And your question is goalpost moving. Even detaining congress wouldn't have overthrown the government.
The only person who died in the capitol was an unarmed woman, and you guys jerk off to images of that.
You think the injuries suffered by the Capitol Police weren't worth mentioning? What the **** is wrong with you people?
I said died, you brought up injuries.
Where were you when these injuries happened?
Federal officers in Portland suffered 113 eye injuries from lasers, DHS official says
Are you actually disputing the injury numbers? Almost ALL of them were captured on video.
More than 140 people were injured in the storming. Five people died either shortly before, during, or after the event.
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Shortly after 2:00 p.m., several rioters attempted to breach a door on the West Front of the Capitol. They dragged three D.C. Metro police officers out of formation and down a set of stairs, trapped them in a crowd, and assaulted them with improvised weapons (including hockey sticks, crutches, flags, poles, sticks, and stolen police shields) as the mob chanted "police stand down!" and "
USA!"
[445] At least one of the officers was also stomped.
[446]
According to the chairman of the Capitol Police officers' union, multiple officers sustained
traumatic brain injuries. One had two cracked ribs and two smashed spinal discs; another lost an eye.
[447] One was stabbed with a metal fence stake, and another lost three fingers.
[448] One was crushed between a door and a riot shield while defending the west side of the Capitol with other officers against rioters; he later had headaches he believed stemmed from a concussion.
[449]
Morale among the Capitol Police plummeted after the riots. The department responded to several incidents where its officers threatened to harm themselves; one officer turned in her weapon because she feared what she would do with it.
[450] Two police officers who responded to the attack died by suicide in the following days:
[451] one Capitol Police officer, Officer Howard Liebengood, three days after the attack,
[452][453] and a D.C. Metro Police officer, Officer Jeffrey Smith, who had been injured in the attack, afterward.
[451][454] Some members of Congress and press reports have included these deaths in the casualty count, for a total of seven deaths.
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