Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they're still struggling with what happened

Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There were over 10,000 protests and you found 140 problematic events, or a rate of 1.4% but likely much lower when you consider the problematic events probably happened during the same protests as others.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      33·
      4 days ago

      Read better next time, that’s 140 attacks against journalists. Not 140 attacks in total.

      Investigative journalism website Bellingcat documented over 140 police violence incidents against journalists during the protests. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker found there were almost as many press freedom violations in one week as for the entire year in 2019.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        33·
        4 days ago

        Alright then, one of us has to sit here and count every entry on that table.

        The HTML says it contains 605 tr tags, so that would bring the percentage up to 6% for a upper limit.

        Many of these events explicitly did lead to accountability for the officers and/or the department, including the City of Denver being asked to pay $14 Million in reparations for their use of force leading to a long string of internal investigations some of which are still open today and much stricter enforcement of their code of conduct.