The warning signs before the Capitol riot
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Published 2021-01-16
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Law enforcement agencies have said they had "no intelligence" indicating that a group of Trump supporters would overpower police and enter the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021. But journalists and researchers who study the online far right say that's not true. In fact, the groups at the heart of the riot had been planning it for days, in plain sight, on social media -- and the signs that an event like this was imminent had been coming for years.
Reporters Logan Jaffe (ProPublica) and Robert Evans (Bellingcat) describe the warning signs they observed weeks, months, and even years before a mob of Trump supporters broke into the US Capitol building.
Sources:
Propublica: Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot
www.propublica.org/article/several-well-known-hate…
Propublica: Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.
www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned…
Bellingcat: How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington D.C.
www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/05/how-th…
SPLC: Extremists Are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/11/17/extremists-…
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All Comments (21)
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The worst threat to Americans is the American people themselves.
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The Divided States of America 😔
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It wasn't surprising what happened, it was just deeply horrifying.
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Mexico: "we need that wall now"
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When america gets bored of attacking and destroying other countries and attacks itself
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Americans - Taking a knee is disrespectful to America but storming the capital is not
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There were "warning signs" for four years, folks.
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"vIoLenCE aRe NeCESsarY" >The Military shows up "THIS IS OPPRESSION!"
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When you spend way over 1/2 a trillion dollars a year on the military and a guy in a buffaloe suit with horns take the capitol
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"I don't wanna say it because i'll be arrested, Wait oh i'll say it"
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I can't believe that younger me wanted to live in America like chille-
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they’re acting like we’re not in the middle of a pandemic
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Spending billions to prepare for outside threat while letting inner threats slip through
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Witnessing the current affairs in the U.S, is like witnessing the fall of Rome in real-time.
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Someone called this 'The Divided States of America', and I honestly couldn't agree more...
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This is what happends when you have a failing educational system. PERIOD.
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Isn't it the job of the FBI to like look at threats on social media and prevent those threats from happening?
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These people are so convinced with their own beliefs that they don’t even give a second chance to other ideas or opinions. That is what is scary.
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instead of trying to "help" other countries, how about helping yourself.
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George Washington: Guys, a 2 party system will divide the country to extremes, we need diversity in politics! Successors: unity wack
