"....but they certainly had the right to do what they did."
Poster Rigby5 is suggesting, I think, that the rioters on January 6th had "the right" to club, spear, stomp, choke, drag, and spray, duly authorized uniformed police officers who were sworn to their duty.
The "right" to do it, poster Rigby asserts.
Look, I ain't a lawyer, but.......but it will be interesting to see if any of the defense lawyers hired by the arrested perps will adopt poster Rigby's defense strategy of "rights".
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"The police started the violence.
They always do."[/QUOTE]
They "always do"? ?
Well, that blows up the Rightfield position that 'Blue Lives Matter".
And, surely supports the conviction of Officer Chauvin in Minneapolis.
Who knew?
And then, 'the police started it'?
.Hmmm, I dunno.
My TV and my laptop newsfeeds seemingly indicate otherwise.
Maybe do a little more due diligence poster Rigby.
Your assertions are not really a good indicator of your ability to do research before posting.
IMHO
Wrong.
The fact the protestors were likely wrong about election fraud, does not at all change the fact they had the right to protest in order to bring media attention to what they considered to be a problem.
Not letting people in to Congress to air their grievances, is wrong, illegal, and undemocratic.
The DC police are brutal, draconian, mercenary, corrupt, and contrary to a democracy.
Of course the police started the violence. They always have clubs, helmets, shields, pepper spray, tear gas, guns, etc.
The police do not own the capital, the demonstrators do.
Their right to demonstrate supercedes the delegates and paid authority the police have.
Again, the fact the demonstrators likely were wrong about election fraud, is totally irrelevant.
They still had a right to be heard, and the DC police attempted to deny them that right.