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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think it came down to a blindspot based on the race and the political ideology of those who attended the January 6 rally.

White cops with conservative beliefs didn't believe a crowd of white conservatives who supposedly "back the Blue" would do this. They didn't prepare because [b]they mistakenly thought the crowd was an ally to police. [/b]

Look at the backlash by the white-dominated police union against the acting Capitol police chief - a black woman. She is also in charge of cleaning house and figuring out if anyone on the inside was coordinating with the insurrectionists.

In short, [b]the police command at the time of the insurrection didn't want to believe the crowd was capable of this BECAUSE they identified with the crowd.[/b] It was a huge blindspot.[/quote]

This.  I think some people thought "Blue Lives Matter" meant that the protestors sided with the cops, rather than that the protestors thought the cops sided with them.  They were supporting the right of the police to suppress BLM and brutalize black people; they supported the cops when they were engaged in defending existing racial hierarchies.  Some people did take the slogan at face value (probably as a result of their own racial blind spots), while others were sympathetic shared the white supremacy of the protestors.  I think they were basically high on their own supply; having been told, and telling themselves, that black people/BLM and their allies were the real threat, they were unable to see the threat right in front of them.  I mean, a QAnon guy was responsible for the attack on Comet Pizza -- anyone who thinks that people that deep into racist, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories aren't dangerous is fooling themselves.  [/quote]

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