The stunning presentation opened the first full day of arguments in the trialas the prosecutors argued Trump was no “innocent bystander” but rather the “inciter in chief” of the deadly Capitol riot, a president who spent months spreading election lies and building a mob of supporters primed for his call to stop Biden’s victory.
Though most of the Senate jurors have already made up their minds on acquittal or conviction, they were riveted and sat silently. Screams from the audio and video filled the Senate chamber. Senators shook their heads, folded their arms and furrowed their brows. One Republican, James Lankford of Oklahoma, bent his head, a GOP colleague putting his hand on his arm in comfort.
“On Jan. 6, President Trump left everyone in this Capitol for dead,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, a prosecutor.
Pence, who had been presiding over a session to certify Biden’s victory over Trump — thus earning Trump’s criticism — is shown being rushed to safety, sheltered in an office with his family just 100 feet from the rioters. Pelosi was evacuated from the complex before the mob prowls her suite of offices, her staff hiding quietly behind closed doors.
At one dramatic moment, the video shows police shooting into the crowd through a broken window, killing a San Diego woman, Ashli Babbitt. In another, a police officer is seen being crushed by the mob.
News Alert: Justice Department says an Oath Keepers leader waited for Trump's direction before Capitol attack The Justice Department is now making clear that a leader among the Oath Keepers paramilitary group -- who planned and led others in the Capitol siege to attempt to stop the Biden presidency -- believed she was responding to the call from then-President Donald Trump himself.
"As the inauguration grew nearer, [Jessica] Watkins indicated that she was awaiting direction from President Trump," prosecutors wrote in the filing Thursday morning
Zachary Brown
Too bad they can't shake their heads, fold their arms and furrow their brows for the 2020 riots which ruined cities and black businesses. Nor will Dab Forums.
those weren't directly interfering in a democratic process, i.e. a coup. incomparable. you're free to disavow those riots, but trying to use them as whataboutism makes you look retarded
Elijah Hernandez
Ogga booga to you too
Adrian Lee
Except the process already happened. And my point still stands. The rich only care about themselves.
Alexander Flores
Sorry, an attempted coup to overthrow US Democracy by overturning a legal, cerified election and assassinating elected officials incited by a sitting president isn't equivalent to 7% of peaceful protests that were used as a pretext by criminals to loot.
I know whataboutism and gaslighting is all the right has remaining since your attempts to pretend it was a Reichstag falseflag by antifa fell flat (although a handful of you crazies are now blaming it on Pelosi and Schumer) but have you no shame even yet?
Aiden Richardson
dont care. Veritas faggets are creeps. literally.. fuckers stole a car and then were hunting hobos for fun and giggles. when police got them they took their tails and tried to play pap has a money card in the court.. they burned over 3 sleeping people alive for fun and giggles instead to help them to get a job and get out of the gutter.
Elijah Walker
>7% No source? And what's a reichstag? >muh whataboutism buzzword >muh gaslighting buzzword >muh falseflag buzzword
Isaiah Rodriguez
>No source? Source is The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project that analyzed 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states between May 26 and August 22. They found that less than 7% protest locations reported violent demonstrations. The authors define violent demonstrations as including “acts targeting other individuals, property, businesses, other rioting groups or armed actors.” Their definition includes anything from “fighting back against police” to vandalism, property destruction looting, road-blocking using barricades, burning tires or other materials.
Lucas Gutierrez
aka its manipulated statistics
How did they define "protest?"
What if it was a protest in the same city? when is a protest connected to another protest?
do you really lack understanding of statistics? what you cite does not mean anything except deliberate narrative manipulation
Bentley Hill
Not sure why it even matters I could make the same argument about the people attending trump's speech does that make what happened less bad?
Lucas Flores
>aka its manipulated statistics How did I know you were going to yell "fake news" at information that disagreed with your worldview. Do you have any proof that its manipulated?
>do you really lack understanding of statistics? You haven't made any claims specific to the data I cited. All you've done is said "what if they're wrong about this thing?" and then used this as evidence to completely dismiss all of the findings. It isn't good enough to just wildly speculate that the study might have gotten information wrong. You actually have to prove it.
>what you cite does not mean anything except deliberate narrative manipulation Prove it. Go to their website, read their methodology and prove that their data collection method is flawed. So far you've done nothing but vaguely gesture at conspiracy without providing any evidence that their data is manipulated.
I highly suspect you aren't going to do any of this because your bias is so incredibly obvious. You don't have any proof that this study is fake - you just FEEL like its fake because you've been so brainwashed by propaganda that the statistical information just doesn't align with what you want to believe is true. This is the most common kind of anti-intellectualism propagated in conservative circles - anything that doesn't "feel" right to you is automatically fake and you'll die on that hill because admitting you were wrong is too threatening to your predetermined bias.
I'm just responding to the user who asked for the source of the 7% figure.
Jonathan Adams
7% was 14,000 It's orders of magnitudes greater than jan6
Matthew Sanchez
Let me alter this-- 14,000 was the number arrested. 7% is probably a larger number than this, assuming the 7% number is accurate and that the police were not able to arrest 100% of those responsoble for crime If police did achieve 100% arrested of those responsoble for crime, ie 7%=14,000 then it is about an order of magnitude greater than Jan 6
Ethan Ward
>no links
Jace Anderson
Oh I have no doubt that's what his study determined. The question is the final percentage, but what is a demonstration? What a much more telling study would have been is if it analyzed demonstrations of several hundred people or larger. Analyzing 7,700 demonstrations is easy when you consider two college kids hanging out on the street corner with a BLM sign as a demonstration. I mean yeah, that's a demonstration no doubt. but if we extend our analysis of demonstrations to small groups such as this analysis becomes much less telling. Not even local newspapers would consider two people on a street corner holding signs as rioting under the context of a movement.
I would be much more interested in knowing the percentage of violence that occurred with demonstrations above 500 people.
This ultra-woke website would include a gathering of a couple people on a random street corner as a "demonstration". As woke as it is, it's like police investigating themselves and finding that they did nothing wrong. It's retardedly biased.
The statistic is misleading, because most of the major protests (the ones with hundreds of people marching) inevitably turned violent - and if you deny this fact then you deny the leftist claim that police tend to escalate protests.
The "93% peaceful" myth is a conveniently misleading statistic, just like the idiotic "70 cents on the dollar" feminists have been screeching about - but woke ass morons like you latch onto it unquestioningly because it confirms what you want to believe.
Nicholas Long
It’s a manipulated stat, a lie, propaganda and i don’t care if you don’t see it, all you have to do is find out is look at the study and see if you can find the answer to my questions. You are dumb, lack critical thinking, not truth seeking but a drone of the permanent class machine. You’re not interesting because there’s nothing you say I couldn’t of heard from corporate talking heads
Jason Edwards
>It’s a manipulated stat, a lie, propaganda what do you base that claim on?
Aiden Murphy
A grand jury in Western New York has dismissed assault charges against two police officers who shoved an elderly protester to the ground during a George Floyd protest in June.
Buffalo Police Department officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski had faced felony charges for shoving 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground, fracturing his skull and causing him to bleed from his head
Brandon Sanchez
The Fox Prime Time News Entertainment bobbleheads, Rush and Alex Jones said so.
