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Stop saying the pro-Trump Capitol coup is "something out of another country." There is a long history of violent takeovers of government buildings right here in the US, often by white supremacists. THREAD:
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was an anti-reconstruction coup that replaced the local government with white supremacists and helped give birth to the Jim Crow era https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre occurred in 1886 when a white mob killed 10 Black people because two Black-Native brothers dared to take a white man to court for attacking them http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/articles/381/the-carroll-county-courthouse-massacre-1886-a-cold-case-file
A major element of US lynch law was forcibly removing people from police custody, this mostly targeted Black Americans but also includes the killing of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was taken from police in Georgia before being killed https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case
Just this year armed Trump supporters stormed the Michigan state house to protest the Governor's COVID lockdown, it was later revealed that militia members also planned to kidnap her https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514
