The people who were mainly responsible for the mayhem deserve some significant punishment - a few days in jail and a hefty fine.
THis was not an insurrection or an attempt to overthrow the government, or even an attempt to intimidate any lawmaker. It was "Right-crazies" acting out after having watched a summer full of mainly Black Left-crazies committing much worse criminal acts while Leftist politicians sympathized with them.
The transparent phonies on the Left trying to make this into something more than it was is are exposed by the relatively light sentences being meted out.
One thing that I'm a bit curious about is the very dubious claim that 140 (or so) uniformed peace officers were "seriously injured" in the festivities. My sense is that this it a totally-overblown bit of bullshit, but I haven't seen any real information either way. I suspect that everyone of them (excepting a few goldbricks) were back at work within a day or so, but I don't know the reality of it.
Exactly!
Left-wing loonie MSM can be trusted to spin and lie on this matter, while little said about the real insurrection we had (have) in Seattle this past Summer and still going ...
EXCERPTS:
Seattle Homicide Rate Increased Sharply in 2020 Amid Protests, Police Defunding
By
Echo Liu March 8, 2021 Updated: March 23, 2021
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The
Seattle Police Department (SPD) investigated 50 homicides last year, the most homicides in the city in 26 years.
This was an increase of 61 percent compared to the 31 cases in 2019. Law enforcement personnel cited issues such as ongoing protests as well as officials actively limiting
police power.
Data from local police also shows that homicides across the country rose by 36 percent in 2020 compared to a year before.
“Obviously, the pandemic, the political climate, the civil unrest adds to that,” Jim Fuda, law enforcement director of Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound, told The Epoch Times. “You cannot blame police for that.”
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In 2016, a federal judge cited the SPD as a national training model of police reform. Fifty agencies in the nation were called on to learn from the SPD’s practices and policies.
Recently, however, the SPD became a target for defunding. In August 2020, the Seattle City Council approved cuts of around 12 percent to the SPD budget.
A memo to the Seattle City Council states that the police department experienced extreme staffing shortages for more than 220 days in 2020.
Fuda expressed concern about the defunding.
“It increases crime and increases the fear of crime,” he said.
He said defunding leads to fewer police officers on the streets. On top of that, 240 officers have already left the police department, the most in the history of the Seattle police force.
“So there are fewer officers to respond to other than Priority 1 calls, or they’re slower to Priority 1 calls, because there simply isn’t the manpower to respond to all this going on in the city,” he said.
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www.theepochtimes.com
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The Jan.6,2021 event at Capital Hill -DC was a molehill compared to the mountains we saw in places like Capital Hill - Seattle with it's CHAZ-CHOP, Portland, Or. and many other cities across this nation.
CHAZ = Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (USA laws do not apply)
CHOP = Capital Hill Organized Protest