Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "The Independent" channel.

  1. Of course!
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  2. You can't tell the difference between civil unrest and a coup attempt.
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  3. Is English not your first language?
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  4.  @francescapoteet5481  They came very close. It's thoroughly documented on (among other things) videos often shot by said attackers!
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  5.  @pappapinskie5883  Indeed, it's long been true that the further left one goes, the more weapons one finds.
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  6. That happened at the last or second-to-last line of defense in front of the legislators and staff members trapped in the House Gallery.
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  7.  @richardreese8038  It wasn't just a case of a trigger-happy cop.
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  8.  @richardreese8038  I don't know what you mean about a restroom, but the fact is that the cop only fired once Babbitt had breached the penultimate (or perhaps ultimate) line of defense protecting the people trapped in the House Gallery. A trigger-happy cop would have started blasting through the windows when the attackers simply approached the door.
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  9.  @richardreese8038  She was breaching the last (or second-to-last) line of defense in front of the people trapped in the House Gallery. The police in that hallway had no riot gear, nor anything to barricade the door against the very large mob in front of them.
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  10. You say that because...
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  11.  @richardreese8038  Ok. Let's try this again. J6, as we've now seen again and again, was the climax of many attempts by Trump, who knew that he lost, to remain in power indefinitely. On that day, the attackers came within a few yards and a few moments of lynching lawmakers (among others), preventing certification of the election, and causing a constitutional crisis. This can now be seen in the vast amount of evidence collected and shown by the committee, much of it from former Trump administration personnel. The civil unrest in 2020 had no remote potential of doing anything close to that. Besides, the property destruction was nowhere close to what occurred in, for example, 1967-1968. Most of the casualties were the work of cops, vigilantes (shootings and rammings), rightist accelerationists/provocateurs (Boogaloo types), and apolitical lumpen.
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