This first hand account from a Capitol police officer is just insane. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob
Thinking about how other media outlets such as the @nytimes consistently chose to paint the mob as one-dimensional working class protesters who got out of hand, rather than focus deeper on the militant planning, the bombs that were found, etc.
Also thinking about how the FBI issued a 2009 report warning how military vets are recruited by white nationalist groups, and because they were accused of “disrespecting the troops”, Obama’s DHS backtracked and withdrew the language https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/14/report-citing-vet-extremism-is-pulled/ https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/napolitano.apology/
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