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Anonymous wrote:People were posting on the Capitol Hill NextDoor page with information about detailed plans they found online to take over the Capitol. My freakin' cousin in Nashville was posting things he found on Parler about people coming to storm the Capitol on Facebook. This information was EVERYWHERE. The only reason it was not taken seriously was a) if someone didn't want to take it seriously or b) if someone simply didn't believe white people pose a threat.

I saw it on facebook too. Don't know how they could have -not- seen it.

Assume they thought white people wouldn't do this?
Or, that white right wingers would behave as well as the left wing protestors and just allow themselves to be arrested?

Anonymous wrote:People were posting on the Capitol Hill NextDoor page with information about detailed plans they found online to take over the Capitol. My freakin' cousin in Nashville was posting things he found on Parler about people coming to storm the Capitol on Facebook. This information was EVERYWHERE. The only reason it was not taken seriously was a) if someone didn't want to take it seriously or b) if someone simply didn't believe white people pose a threat.

Anonymous wrote:People were posting on the Capitol Hill NextDoor page with information about detailed plans they found online to take over the Capitol. My freakin' cousin in Nashville was posting things he found on Parler about people coming to storm the Capitol on Facebook. This information was EVERYWHERE. The only reason it was not taken seriously was a) if someone didn't want to take it seriously or b) if someone simply didn't believe white people pose a threat.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 they mistakenly thought the crowd was an ally to police.

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, 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. It was a huge blindspot.

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.

I think this is definitely part of it. But I did talk to a police friend of mine who was there (different agency) who said that all the planning seemed to assume relatively peaceful daytime demonstrations, because that's what they had had all summer with BLM. And that at night, people would take advantage of the situation and start getting rowdy or destructive.

Anonymous wrote:The rank and file may not have been aware but their leadership did. Although it seems that even their leadership didn’t take the threats seriously since they only requested backup from the Pentagon a few days before.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 they mistakenly thought the crowd was an ally to police.

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, 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. It was a huge blindspot.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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 they mistakenly thought the crowd was an ally to police.

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, 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. It was a huge blindspot.

For much of the force, Jan. 6 began like any other day.

“We normally have pretty good information regarding where these people are and how far they are from the Capitol,” said Keith McFaden, a former Capitol Police officer and union leader who retired from the force following the riot. “We heard nothing that day.”

For the members of the riot squad who formed the first line of defense on the Capitol’s lower west terrace on Jan. 6, the lack of information could not have come with higher stakes.

Thrust into the most intense battle of the insurrection, the roughly two dozen officers bought lawmakers crucial time to scramble for safety. For about 100 heart-pounding minutes, they slipped and skidded across a stone surface slick with blood and bear spray, attempting to hold their ground against a rampaging mass of thousands.

To many of them, it felt like no one was in charge of the Capitol’s defense. All they could hear on the police radio were desperate cries for help.

At one point, the combat veteran was forced to stumble back from the line, his face so covered in bear spray he could barely see or breathe.

https://thedonald.win/p/11R4q2aptJ/trump-tweet-daddy-says-be-in-dc-/c/

Lots of people planing to bring guns into dc for the protest. I would suggest everyone get out of town around that time unless they really need to. Things will get very messy.