It seems to be more newsworthy because of where it happened. Upper middle-class suburb. And the suspect apparently from a good family.
This is the kind of thread that scares a lot of people.
I'm surprised this didn't spark a BLM/defund the police riot.
Most of my formative years were spent in a planned bedroom community north of Dallas called The Colony. Frisco is just to the east and used to be nothing but fields. We never had racial discord in that area back then. You couldn't pay me to live in the DFW metroplex now. Its become a blue haven from what I've seen.
Why? Could you not be objective? BTW... in my formative years I lived in The Colony from '77 to '87. Frisco was nothing but a field we passed on the 121 on our way to Prestonwood mall. Now look at it. . Times sure do change.
Frisco has grown beyond recognition and is still growing. It even has a high rise skyline now.
I thought riots were ok since Jan 6th?
Says who? Trump told the visitors to the capitol to be peaceful.
After telling them they would have to fight to save their country.
Do they not cover figures of speech in Canadian schools? He specifically told them where to walk peacefully. That's how you can tell what's a figure of speech, and what is specific instruction. Did you even read the transcript or do you just go by soundbites from the MSM?
About as much as any other riot under any other President I suppose: do you consider every riot to be the leadership fault/failure of the President with whom you think the rioters in question generally line up ideologically?Except they weren't, so leadership failure?
Yet he pardoned the violent ones. Go figure.
That depends on the circumstances. In this case, the crowd in question had attended a rally where the incumbent president spoke about how the election was stolen and people had to make their voices heard and "fight" for their country or some such sentiment so Congress would know their discontent as they certified the election results. That same crowd then marched on the US Capitol and eventually rioted while the president did nothing to try and dissuade them for hours. When he finally did, they ceased rioting. One can't help but wonder how differently things would have gone had he made that public comment to them hours before.
So are you against the pardon power of Presidents in general, or only when the mean orange man does it?
Only when the rioters tell the judge they were there because their President told them to be.
Trump pardoned a drug dealer doing life for his part in killing a cop. Guys back in jail now for beating and strangling his wife.
Once again: he told them to be peaceful. He told them, specifically, where to peacefully walk (the specific area was NOT closed that day). Given this, there could be no mistaking by any remotely reasonable person that fight like hell was a figure of speech.
If a criminal blames the President for something, it's the President's fault?
Interesting. So it seems they understood his statement as "walk peacefully, then fight like hell" when they got to the US Capitol because that's the way it went down.
Apparently not.
Twice didn't do the trick either.
Third time was the charm it seems, but that was well after the damage was done and police officers were assaulted.
We went over it here line by line.