I boiled it down to what was available in the video tapes. I can tell you for certain that the front line officers were hung out to dry. Their behavior on that day shows that they were completely overwhelmed and unprepared for that many people. In one camp, you have those officers who went WAY beyond reasonable use of force because they …
I boiled it down to what was available in the video tapes. I can tell you for certain that the front line officers were hung out to dry. Their behavior on that day shows that they were completely overwhelmed and unprepared for that many people.
In one camp, you have those officers who went WAY beyond reasonable use of force because they were afraid of the large group of people they were facing. This, to me, shows that they were exhibiting a "fight" response; referring to "fight or flight". That does not excuse their abhorrent behavior in the least, but it may help explain the unlawful use of "less-lethal" weaponry.The other, mostly inside officers, went into either a "flight response", or almost a disassociated type of behavior. The retreating, failure to arrest prominent provocateurs when able to do so safely, and the bizarre appearance of giving tours at times shows the other side of that response.
I say none of the above to excuse or condone any of the actions by the Capitol police that day, I am merely trying to offer some insight from my peculiar perspective.
I think some Capitol police were TOLD to act that way. This was all a set up by Dems so they could have another impeachment trial of Trump AND paint all Trump supporters as "insurrectionists" and keep Republican representatives and Senators from showing the massive irregularities and illegalities of the 2020 election at the electoral-count meeting. I wonder if the weeks-later suicides had anything to do with that directive to "let them in and then, let them wander around"?
I also believe that happened, but I chose not to offer conjecture in my previous post. I simply wanted to state the facts as I saw them and interpret them according to my personal experience in a similar situation.
I boiled it down to what was available in the video tapes. I can tell you for certain that the front line officers were hung out to dry. Their behavior on that day shows that they were completely overwhelmed and unprepared for that many people.
In one camp, you have those officers who went WAY beyond reasonable use of force because they were afraid of the large group of people they were facing. This, to me, shows that they were exhibiting a "fight" response; referring to "fight or flight". That does not excuse their abhorrent behavior in the least, but it may help explain the unlawful use of "less-lethal" weaponry.The other, mostly inside officers, went into either a "flight response", or almost a disassociated type of behavior. The retreating, failure to arrest prominent provocateurs when able to do so safely, and the bizarre appearance of giving tours at times shows the other side of that response.
I say none of the above to excuse or condone any of the actions by the Capitol police that day, I am merely trying to offer some insight from my peculiar perspective.
I think some Capitol police were TOLD to act that way. This was all a set up by Dems so they could have another impeachment trial of Trump AND paint all Trump supporters as "insurrectionists" and keep Republican representatives and Senators from showing the massive irregularities and illegalities of the 2020 election at the electoral-count meeting. I wonder if the weeks-later suicides had anything to do with that directive to "let them in and then, let them wander around"?
I also believe that happened, but I chose not to offer conjecture in my previous post. I simply wanted to state the facts as I saw them and interpret them according to my personal experience in a similar situation.