It’s been a little over a weeks since the Capitol riots, but we’ve already had a year’s worth of postmortem hot takes.
One of the most popular has been that had the rioters been with Black Lives Matter, the Capitol Police would have had no problem stopping them in their tracks before the violence escalated any further.
- Jemele Hill just wants to ‘be clear’ that Capitol Police went easy on Capitol rioters because they’re focused on eliminating black people
- Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has ‘no doubt’ if Capitol protesters had been BLM, ‘dozens and dozens’ would be dead
- Unity and healing! Joe Biden does his part to turn storming of U.S. Capitol into a racial controversy
It’s only natural that the actual Black Lives Matter organization pick up that narrative and run with it:
Read our demands in response to Wednesday's insurrection at the Capitol.#DefundThePolice pic.twitter.com/mPWvbhZjrK
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) January 9, 2021
They modified it slightly on January 13:
The national @Blklivesmatter organization doubles down on Defund the Police in the wake of Capitol riots: "…police that, on Wednesday, met white supremacists with patience and the benefit of the doubt, going so far as to pose for selfies with rioters."https://t.co/IlcWv1qHs4 pic.twitter.com/9XP3rgJ0nG
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) January 15, 2021
Did they watch the same footage we did? There was teargas. A white woman was killed. A Capitol Police officer was killed.
We haven’t really seen any conclusive evidence that the Capitol Police cooperated with rioters and enabled the violence. But we saw plenty of footage last summer of Black Lives Matter protesters overpowering police and law enforcement effectively standing by and letting them do it. In some of the biggest cities where rioting occurred, police were ordered to stand down.
And now, after having seen the violence that can flourish when law enforcement’s hands are tied or they’re overpowered, Black Lives Matter is pushing even harder to make their #DefundThePolice dream a reality.
this is why i don't support the blm organization.
while i do support the movement, i will NEVER support the organization themselves.
defunding the police will do nothing but make this whole situation WORSE. https://t.co/leSgmb1Rod
— egg (@Number1_Egg) January 13, 2021
I’m for everything except for 6. Let’s reform police training. Defunding leads to probable shutdown of police stations. And when sh!t hits the fans who’re you gonna call? Me personally, I’d act on my second amendment right to bear arms and police my own streets. https://t.co/92KpNNCVS8
— That Guy Raf ???? (@thatguy_raf) January 9, 2021
For a group that purports to want peace, Black Lives Matter sure seems to want a lot of violence.
