We're hearing that the Trumpist rabble who "stormed" the Capitol were
allowed to do so because they're white, whereas the BLM protesters were
beaten bloody, because they're black.
The latter's surely true; although it was only the protesters (and journalists)
who were mauled by the police at BLM protests, while arsonists and vandals
in the wake of those protests got a pass—just like those who streamed into
the Capitol.
Moreover, the Capitol police did treat protesters yesterday with brutal violence:
shooting the unarmed Ashli Babbitt (white), throwing another protester (white)
off a balcony (he survived the 50-foot fall), and losing three more (white)
protesters to unidentified "medical emergencies." That violence (the shooting
and the throwing) went down after the hysterically reported "invasion" of the
building. (We don't yet know anything about those "medical emergencies,"
and may never know.)
To racialize what happened yesterday just helps widen the already deep divide
that has been carefully exploited, if not engineered, to keep all the have-nots
vulnerable to even more predation from on high.
MCM
Link to the video of Ashli Babbitt's shooting (which has a multitude of
"leftists" crowing on her Facebook page):
Three people died from medical emergencies on Capitol grounds Wednesday. Who were they?
Grace Hauck and Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY
Thu, January 7, 2021, 6:25 PM EST
Four people died Wednesday when a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, including three who suffered medical emergencies on Capitol grounds, police said.
Benjamin Phillips, 50, from Ringtown, Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Athens, Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Kennesaw, Georgia all died from medical emergencies on the grounds of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., police Chief Robert Contee III said in a press conference Thursday.
It was not immediately clear how Phillips and Boyland died. Boyland's family declined to comment Thursday. USA TODAY was unable to reach the families of Greeson and Phillips.