WEATHER53 wrote: Lengthy, multiple locations riots were far far worse so thread title is inadvertently correct 22JAN25-POST#1025
NFBW wrote: This thread is not about comparing the amount of damage and casualties that were caused by each respective riot. The Chauvin riots, during the summer of 2020 were instigated by a public official no higher than officer Derek Chauvin. There have been no investigations into any public official, or political action group on the Democrat side having responsibility for what officer Chauvin did. On the other side of it with the January 6 insurrection riots the investigation is going all the way up from the common trespassers and MAFA ne’er-do-wells at the bottom through white nationalist militias such as the proud boys and oath keepers in a conspiracy to commit sedition and or impede a government proceeding during a live joint session of Congress that involves members of Congress in the Republican party, members of the news media and right wing propaganda machine, going through President Trump’s staff, advisors, and lawyers and ultimately ending with the President of the United States himself. It does not get any higher than that. There is no comparison between the two. Like Mitch says;
"There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. The people that stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president, And having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole, which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on the Earth," Mitch McConnell
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