Fuck being 'armed'. When 20 people are beating the shit out of you with hundreds of people behind them, that's felony assault. Those domestic terrorists aren't being charged more harshly because they are White. If they had been Black or Brown, those Capitol police officers would have drawn their guns and fired. Over and over again.
They were literally chanting "Hang Mike Pence" before they stormed the capitol. Even you don't believe what you just wrote.
And then they fully expected to what, get back on the planes and fly back home like nothing happened? Because Trump absolutely would not have pardoned anyone who had been involved if Mike Pence had gotten hurt. Like so many other people, he would have absolutely left any and all of them out to dry, and wouldn't even think twice about doing it.
I would love to know the distinction between "a riot that took place in the American capital building as our leaders were in the process of confirming a new President, perpetrated exclusively by supporters of the losing candidate" and an "insurrection." I mean, I'm not saying that distinction could not exist. But goodness, that is an extremely fine hair to split. "Well, technically officer, I didn't kill my husband. I pushed him, and then he happened to fall down a flight of stairs and die."
"Technically this isn't a coup," the Trump voter said smugly as he was led away in chains along with everyone else. "The jails they are taking us to are private prisons, not military ones. It has to be the military for it to be a coup."
And this mentality is exactly why it will happen again, if we let this one go unpunished. These people still think the election was stolen, they still believe the lies that Trump is telling, and they still have zero respect for the electoral process if their guy didn't win.
DC Metro Cop Shares Threatening Voicemail Trump Supporter Left Him as He Testified at 1/6 Commission https://secondnexus.com/michael-fanone-voicemail-capitol-hearing