Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
So how many armed insurrectionists were filmed running around inside the building threatening people? How many shots did they fire in there? Let me answer that for you.....0 on both counts if you dont count the 1 shot fired by the officer who killed the unarmed woman. Calling it an insurrection is pure propaganda pulled out of the collective lefts ass......There was however quite a bit of video circulated showing the "insurrectionists" being waved in by the capitol police though so there is that LOL
Wrong!
"In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a popular narrative has emerged: that because rioters did not fire guns that day, they were not really "armed."
"But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large."
"Police officers have a much different memory of that day. "I've talked to officers who have done two tours in Iraq who said this was scarier to them than their time in combat," Robert J. Contee III, the acting chief of Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, said in January. At the time of his comments, he had just spoken with an officer who was attacked with a rioter's stun gun."
"Federal court records, included in NPR's database of more than 300 criminal cases, allege that at least three dozen people who took part in the riot used or possessed some kind of weapon that day."
"This number is likely a low estimate of the total number of weapons that rioters brought with them."
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters-were-armed-here-are-the-weapons-prosecutors-say-they-used
