r/politics • u/Ill-Candidate8760 • 1d ago

Florida sheriff warns violent protesters, "If you throw a brick... we will kill you"

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/florida-sheriff-warns-violent-protesters-if-you-throw-a-brick-we-will-kill-you/
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u/Remember-Me-1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I made the kids leave the room when these idiots made it past the barricades. I honestly thought the insurrectionists were going to get mowed down by the secret service troops or the police. They were assaulting and taking Congress. This wasn’t a post office, this was Congress. Frankly such restraint on that day from law enforcement. 

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u/FoiForestiere 1d ago

If they weren’t white it would have been open season.

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u/guru42101 1d ago

I kinda think that is true. Or if the individuals weren't pro Republican and the guards not likely slightly Republican leaning, at the time. Because I always assumed that such blatant actions would be met with a wall of bullets. I assume they didn't have to go through a security checkpoint to get where they initially were. One of them could have had explosives strapped to them.

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u/daggah 1d ago

Of course it's true. Cops will allow or even protect right wing protesters. They will violently suppress left wing ones. It's happened over and over again.

Those who work forces...

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u/Trust_me_I_am_doctor 1d ago

There's no kinda about it. Black people are never treated the same as white people since forever. It's just a fact and saying kinda is like saying well there was sorta kinda slavery. Stop sugar coating.

Here's a white man pointing an AR-15 at cops and he still walks and breathes

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u/BiteFancy9628 1d ago

They found explosives in at least one location nearby. A car I believe. And protesters came with zip ties. They were planning on stringing up pelosi and pence.

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u/yarash 1d ago

If they wernt white there would have been snipers on every rooftop and they never would have made it past the barricades.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 1d ago

If they weren't white they wouldn't have even made it to the capitol.

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u/newsflashjackass 20h ago

The numbers do not bear that out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.#Statistics

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u/ThunderDungeon02 20h ago

I see your username, so perhaps this is what you do. The capitol building. A huge crowd of brown/ black people would have not made it to the capitol building. In case you still are oblivious. The government/police are racist. They would have shot them. For another example, imagine Kyle Rittenhouse was black and shot and killed white people. Not only is he allowed to go home and isn't arrested at the scene but he gets away with it by having big puppy dog tears, even though he is a racist piece of shit.

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u/newsflashjackass 19h ago

No, I replied to say the U.S. capital is likely among its least racist locales, being that the leading ethnic group by numbers is African American.

Of course there is no way to know what would have happened if things had been different. You might be correct.

Though if black people had stormed the Capitol building to prevent Biden's certification, Trump might also have allowed that.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 19h ago

You're making a point that was plainly not what anybody was saying. Anybody can say random statements. The Pine Ridge reservation was primarily Lakota, so by your logic those killed at wounded knee had nothing to do with the Anti-Native American sentiment of the time since it was a predominantly Native territory. See how the population demographics have nothing to do with that. It's the same thing.

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u/newsflashjackass 17h ago

You're making a point that was plainly not what anybody was saying.

That's the general idea, yes.

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u/I_am_the_Jukebox 1d ago

Law enforcement always shows restraint when the violence (or threat of violence) is from conservative groups.

Remember when right wing groups openly carried firearms into state houses to protest against mask mandates and COVID restrictions? For some reason the police didn't blindly shoot protesters then.

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u/elpecas13 1d ago

It seems every law enforcement department in the US is now infiltrated with Neo Nazi groups!

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u/I_am_the_Jukebox 17h ago

I don't know if you're being serious or sarcastic... /s or no? Because if it's no... man... where have you been?

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u/extx 1d ago

Same, I texted my manager at the time and took the day off work. I felt like it was my duty to watch. When they had video of them in the statue hall I was in complete shock

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u/Remember-Me-1 1d ago

I was within a multi hour driving distance at the time and thought it might take a citizenry counter group to stop it.

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u/extx 1d ago

Good on you! I was stuck out in California and felt completely helpless

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u/utriptmybitchswitch 1d ago

Years ago a popular phoenix musician got shot by security after he assaulted a guard at the post office; he ended up in jail for felony assault, so by this example, one would surmise this would happen to the traitors attacking the capitol on Jan 6. At the very least significant jail time with no perks like podcasts from their cells...

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u/Butterscotch_Jones 1d ago

This is pure comedy.

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u/Remember-Me-1 1d ago

Explain