Froomkin/salon

there is so much going on these days. but what i keep coming back to is that if the capitol police had been anything close to properly mobilized, none of it would have happened.

there would have been a protest on january 6, not an insurrection. five people wouldn’t be dead. members of congress and capitol staff wouldn’t have been terrorized. donald trump wouldn’t be impeached.

all but for a still inexplicable decision made by who-knows-who.

because we still don’t know how it was allowed to happen.

….(snip)….

speaks to motive

i have tried to consider the possibility that it was just gross incompetence. but no one could really be that incompetent.

so at this point, in the absence of any other plausible explanations, it is more than reasonable to assume that the people making decisions about capitol police deployment that day felt kinship with the trump mob, and either were too racist to see the threat posed by trump supporters or looked the other way on purpose