re: #64 sagehen

They didn’t arrest many people on Jan 6 because the cops had just spent HOURS fighting for their lives. 140 of them were injured. Even if they’d had the personnel to arrest everyone and search them and evidence-tag the weapons, there weren’t enough cop cars to transport them or enough room in the jails to put them.

What there was, was thousands of hours of video and thousands of social media posts for when they got around to investigating later (later meaning, when there was a new president who wouldn’t pardon any of them.)

There were, however, some insurrectionists who may not have been actively engaged in violent conduct who were allowed to stroll out of the Capitol with minimal pushback. And if somehow Trump remained in office, you can bet even the most violent of the insurrectionists would not have been prosecuted, while peaceful capital protests by POC would have been met with arrests and similar.