Trump shared a call for Capitol Hill police who "beat the hell out of innocent J6 protesters" to face criminal charges.
  • athos77@kbin.social
    34·
    11 months ago

    The Capitol cops beat the hell out of innocent J6 protesters, and the videos are finally coming out. […] The cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed."

    Funny how when it was BLM vs the cops, they were cheering for the cops to murder more black people because they were uppity for challenging the status quo.

    • psvrh@lemmy.ca
      17·
      11 months ago

      That’s how it’s supposed to be, and why this is such a challenge for the political Right. For them, the cops are allies, and it was incomprehensible that they would put up any opposition at all.

      By and large this has always been the case, the the police are guardians of order and the primacy of capital, and that’s the side the Right is almost always on, so it’s understandable how precedent would have led them to believe that it’d always be the case.

      And they were shocked and hurt to find out that it wasn’t.

      For the record, they feel the same way about the military.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    92·
    11 months ago

    “It’s so unfair to call us out for our actions!!”

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think that graphic they have is rather misleading; you have to click on it and then confirm your selection to see what most people rated it as.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Ah that makes sense, the needle is off the scale. What did you see it as when you clicked through?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Donald Trump has shared a post on his Truth Social website, calling for Capitol Police officers who “beat the hell out of innocent J6 [January 6] protesters” to face criminal charges.

    On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed Congress in a bid to prevent Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory from being certified.

    Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who collapsed after being assaulted on January 6, died the following day, though a Washington D.C. medical examiner later attributed his death to natural causes.

    It is a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by the J6 Prison Choir, made up of men imprisoned after the riot, interspersed with Trump reciting the pledge of allegiance.

    In December 2022 a House Select Committee formed to investigate the Capitol Hill riots attributed the disorder directly to Trump’s actions.

    Separately the Republican frontrunner is also facing criminal charges in Georgia relating to his efforts to block Biden’s election win in the state.

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  • TheJims@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    I find it amusing that almost three years later he’s finally pretending to give a shit about them.

  • Froyn@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    That’s going to go over real well when read back during the insurrection trials.