I dunno, I don’t think we will have another event as bad as Jan 6th
So many people on both sides of the isle overlook the fact that Jan 6th was 100% civic mismanagement. You had a crowd of tens of thousands of potential protestors, and a tiny handful of police. This is why whoever was in charge of event security was fired as a result
“But the police were letting protestors in!”
- in my opinion this conspiracy theory formed out of simple human self-preservation. If you are a single, lone, police officer holding a metal fence barricade against a crowd of thousands of people, you have 2 choices: 1. Stand aside and let them in or 2. Be possibly trampled to death holding them back
It would be the same if you rather than sending dozens of police with tear gas and riot shields to stop the riots in Portland, and instead sent 3 cops. What would those 3 cops do to not get seriously hurt? Let the riot go right past them
As long as you have an appropriate ratio of security to any event, it is unlikely that the event can get out of hand. Plan better, plan accordingly
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