>>13265104>It doesn't matter, it is still a bunch of government officials when you act live there is nothing on the opposing side.It matters a lot if we're not trying to have a civil war. You would expect that people who have one code of ethics wouldn't fundamentally change their code of ethics depending on the political party of those it's being applied to, because that would make a code of ethics meaningless.
>No, there was a police presence the entire time trying to get them to leave, it just wasn't safe for them to occupy the precinct for a few days that protests were at a fever pitch.There's no reasonable way to say it wasn't safe for police to occupy their own station. They're an armed force, trained to handle riots. As the wiki article says, they preferred to try to de-escalate a situation that, had they the will to do so, could have been swiftly handled with raw force. That's the difference with the Captiol protest, where they neglected any non-lethal option, neglected any form of de-escalation, and went right to firing live rounds into a crowd that, apparently, they let into the building themselves.
