Friday, June 14, 2024

What Trump And His People Need To Know About January 6

 If Republicans are too timid to talk about January 6, former president Donald Trump is not.

At 1:06, while Trump was still speaking at the Ellipse, the Capitol Police "Less lethal" team began shooting a barrage of grenades, gas, and rubber bullets into the growing mass of still-peaceful protestors on the Capitol's west side.

No Capitol Police officers died a result of the events on January 6.

On January 8, citing "Two law enforcement officials," the New York Times told its readers that "Pro-Trump rioters" struck Capitol Police officer Sicknick with a fire extinguisher.

In the wake of January 6, the FBI has arrested more than 1400 citizens and incarcerated some 500 among them, the most sweeping mass injustice against American citizens by the federal government since Japanese internment.

In researching my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I wanted to get beyond the numbers and show the effect of the DOJ's casual cruelty on the lives of real people.

Of the ten women I profile, two were killed by police action on January 6, six have been imprisoned, and two await sentencing, one of whom is a great-grandmother. 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/14/what-trump-and-his-people-need-to-know-about-january-6/

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