Not in a hallway when they are an individual fighting an angry mob trying to breach the hallway, with nowhere to escape. Uh, no, no they don't. Stop being cute and cherry picking.
Of that number, Fort...how many do you think had serious injuries? A dozen? Did you notice that the Capital Police wanted nothing to do with releasing any reports as to the extent of their injuries?
Oh, so now it's an "individual" fighting an angry mob? So it's 200 "individuals" all fighting by themselves against overwhelming odds? Now you're getting absurd. Nowhere to escape? There are literally dozens of tunnels that lead from the Capital building to other surrounding buildings.
*trained to risk their own lives to protect them. Absolutely. In certain situations. Like the one the officer was in.
So do you think, had they not then fled from the violent mob to regroup and reinforce, there would have been:
Uh, in that video, that's correct. Dude, you are getting pretty desperate. How many cops did you see, there? Maybe 2, standing between the mob and the shelter of the congresspeople? This is just getting silly, now.
What I "think" is if the leadership of the Capital Police had done a better job of preparing for what they had been warned was a protest that could very well turn violent, then far fewer of their officers would have been hurt and the Capital Building would have never been breached.
What video are you referring to?
I think that's a fair point. They were clearly ill-prepared. But remember what you are saying: they were unprepared for something terrible. The blame still mostly goes to the angry mob for the events of that day.
Police are never trained to risk their own lives, Fort. They receive training on how NOT to risk their own lives while protecting the public.
What a joke. Yes, as it turns out, they are. They confront trouble to keep others safe. They stand in a hallway and pull their guns on angry criminal mobs, if cornered.
Something terrible? It was a mob of a couple hundred people who broke into the Capital Building! There is no way on earth that small number of protesters should have been able to do what they did unless one of two things took place. Either the Capital Police leadership grossly mishandled the information they had prior to the protest...or leadership somewhere up the chain of command WANTED something "terrible' to happen!
It was more than a couple hundred. STOP MAKING UP LIES TO DRESS UP YOUR POINTS. You keep doing that.
1000's of people DID NOT break into the Capital Building, Fort! You are so clueless about what really took place there that day that it borders on farce!
It's not just about the number that got inside the building. It's the number that breached the Capitol. 550 arrested so far, hundreds more in the pipeline. Yes, it was, indeed, 1000s of people who stormed the Capitol. You keep trying to downplay it. We both know why. This is a farce of a discussion.
And, thankfully, in this instance the American taxpayer got their money's worth.
Gotcha. Those damn 'leaders' shoulda coulda been more insightful.
I know, I know, arithmetic is hard.
1000's of people protested AT the Capital...100's BREACHED the Capital! Do you not grasp the difference? As for who's been arrested? Some who were...were not even AT the Capital but were arrested for alleged conspiracy! You keep trying to make this something that it never was...and we both know why!
People have been arrested that never stepped foot inside of the Capital. Show me where you got the number of 900 people who illegally entered the Capital?
