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As people watched President Donald Trump's supporters storm the Capitol building in Washington, DC, they noticed a difference in how the police, media, and the whole USA, in general, reacted to it when compared to the Black Lives Matter protests last year.

So they turned to social media to point out that the demonstrations back then—which broke out across the country in response to police killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—were often met with a brutal response from law enforcement, including the use of tear gas and physical violence.

It's worth noting that the BLM protests weren't calm and friendly, too. "The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism, and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King," Axios writes.

They got these numbers from a company called Property Claim Services (PCS) that has tracked insurance claims related to civil disorder since 1950. It classifies anything over $25 million in insured losses as a "catastrophe," and reports that the 2020 unrest (from May 26 to June 8) will cost the insurance industry far more than any prior one.

Plus, the protests related to George Floyd's death are also different because they are so widespread.

An informal article by Forbes shows that there were at least 19 reported deaths during this period as well.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right wingers should be forever barred from using the term "Personal Responsibility" against people they don't ever again. There is no denying that the garbage who support Trump and Trump himself is responsible for this sedition. Yet wing nuts won't just own their own behavior and actions. Instead they try to blame anyone else. Right now they're claiming it's "antifa" who pulled some kind of false flag operation. If they believed their own bullshit they would be calling for mass arrests of those involved. As usual wing nuts can't even make up their minds. When confronted with the fact that these criminals are Trump supporters they call them "patriots". When they see how much Americans disapprove of what they did suddenly they aren't Trump Supporting Patriots any more, but they're "antifa".

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President-elect Joe Biden described Wednesday's events as "one of the darkest days in the history of our nation" and blamed President Trump for stoking violence. He added it was "totally unacceptable" police had shown more leniency than in Black Lives Matter protests last year.

Washington DC's top prosecutor has not ruled out the possibility that President Trump himself could be investigated over the Capitol riot.

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The acting attorney general for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, said "all actors" will be looked at.

When asked if this included Trump, Sherwin responded: "We're looking at all actors here and anyone that had a role and, if the evidence fits the elements of the crime, they’re going to be charged."

The president had urged his supporters at a rally outside the White House to march on Congress while pushing unfounded claims of electoral fraud, however, when events began to spiral out of control, he asked them to "remain peaceful".

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, called the breach of the U.S. Capitol by Pro-Trump protesters "a coup attempt."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if u look closely, the gun is at the head of the father instead of the child but it's still horrifying

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trumpers keep trying to say the Horned guy is Antifa when everyone knows hes jake Angeli and is Qanon. Half the Trumpers are proud of this and the other half are trying to get people to think it was Antifa and BLM using a false flag

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Louloubelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would like to say, I live in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I WATCHED the BLM protests from my front porch. I have video of them behaving respectfully and peacefully. The violence that happened later at night was not the BLM protesters. Were there riots? Yes. But it was not the BLM people. Oh, and guess what Youtubeistrash? There were trump supporters there stirring up trouble. I WATCHED as they came out of the crowd, and jumped in their pickup with their trump bumper stickers, after changing the license plates. So just shut up already.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me cry. I can't belive our country still can't see that the color of you skin is something that makes you beautiful and different.

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Louloubelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can someone tell me how to go about reporting Youtube Istrash? All they do is spout hatred, lies, and profanity. They add nothing to a intelligent conversation.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Louloubelle, I wish I knew a way as well. Bored Panda appears to have started to use a "language filter" that blocks out foul language, but they still have a huge problem with trolls on this website; language filters don't fully resolve the problem of hate speech. In the past, I believe that they used to moderate the comments section more. However, they really need a way to contact site moderators as I personally don't feel safe or good coming to a site where there are racist, homophobic comments. I value free speech, but when people are openly attacking others and blatantly using hate-speech like Youtube Istrash is, then there needs to be a way to "block" users or "flag" comments with hate speech.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Ginger with the pedestal looks like JP SEARS, how many other red heads are right wing? he comes off as a hippy while making funny videos about vegans and new age medicine; now hes gone crazy with being a Trump Supporter

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Mark Karol-Chik
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BLM did not raid the Capital screaming for deaths of elected officials. Unlike these so called "peaceful" insurrectionists.

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Zoe Hoesley
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m crying, this is so awful why can’t we live in peace! Everyone’s beautiful and perfect skin color shouldn’t matter! LOVE EACH OTHER PLEAES!

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Sasha Kuleshov
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, is almost as if there's something related to the colour of their skin...

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ughh... here it is August 11, 2023 and I'm just now seeing/looking at these photos (on this site) and got chills up and down... eyes started filling up. Feels like it was just yesterday. The look on the faces of the people on the ground and that long gun being pointed at a little girl. UGHHH

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Following the Trump Riot, Rep. CONOR LAMB proclaimed: "Democrats want government to work more than Republicans want it to fail." Conor Lamb, who is White, said, "We know why BLM protesters were treated differently: because of how they look." Thank you Rep. Lamb for your honesty.

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Ella Blackwood
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such an outrage! The difference in the treatment of these two groups by LE is glaringly obvious.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No it isn’t. The agenda is truth so of course things will reflect that. Don’t be ugly trash.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

are they really scared of a father with his child .. this is the type of pictures that others from different countrys see

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Requiem
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THATS JP SEARS WITH THE PEDESTAL! he looks like a hippy but makes parodies of vegans and new age crap but also is supporting Trump now.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Make sure you only post pictures that support your claim here. No sense in posting reality. It isn't one side or the other, it is a nation filled with morons that think there are consequences for their actions. We have immature ads hats running around acting like two year olds who aren't getting their way.

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The first photo is arranged, an "illustration", if you will - a woman using invisible force field to push the seemingly scared cops away. 😂

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He's actually not pointing the gun at the child, it's been made to look like that because of the angle. However, why, oh why would ANYONE bring a small child to a demonstration and put him or he on his shoulders? What happened to putting our children first and protecting them from danger. This person actually took his child right into the line of fire to make a political statement. Wake up folks, none of this is right.

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Darren Lewis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why should a legal and Constitutionally protected right to a demonstration be dangerous? Because they are black? How about bringing your child is educating them on standing up for what you believe and what is right?

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Part of society's problems is social media. Hell the media in general. That photo is not what it seems. You're taking it at face value when there are other photos out there of the same scene but from different angles.

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Pieces of s**t cant defend their hypocricy or the fact they were s**t human beings for 5 years or thenfact this entire collection is laughable bias bullshit from the uneducated. That's why you have downvotes. Because you're.worthless violent, racist, hypocritical garbage people who can only censor and lie.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go and be bitter, salty and BIG MAD somewhere else, troll. Read the room, you are not wanted and no one agrees with the nonsensical mess you are spewing. Shoo MAGAt, shoo....

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Again show all the looting and arson commited by BLM.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Again” would imply that you said this here before. Get ahold of yourself. Why would we show looting an arson from BLM when we just had a terrorist attack? Do you hate America or something? Should we call the FBI?

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Ok, I have an update for this terrible behavior: Hack into the government's whatchamacallit, launch all them explosives, kill everyone in the whole world except me, my friends, and my family, and once we die, the world will prosper without our pollution and overpopulation and whatnot. The end. :>

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I can selectively edit and pick photos of rioting garbage being arrested too!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The other day I had a comment ending with "The older I get, the more I hate the USA" and people went nuts in the comments saying if I'm in the US, I should leave and if I'm not, I should never come... a day later, vindication. I'm pretty sure If I wait another 2 weeks, there will be more deaths

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the women in the scarves did what the terrorists did, imagine how conservatives would react.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the BLM protests did not become super-spreader events, unlike many Trump rallies.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The police forces need to be federal, not run by individual states. And that's just the start.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump has NEVER cared for anyone or anything but himself and whatever benefits him personally... I'm sure I am not the only person to have sussed this out a long, long time ago?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It breaks my heart that it is the twenty first century and some people are still having to defend their rights while others are using their white privilege to get away with horrific crimes

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the white supremacists last cries before dying a quiet death. This shît is on the way out because we are pushing it out. Keep pushing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fighting for the right to live without fear of being shot by the police because the cop had a bad day is obviously more threatening to the democracy than storming, looting and damaging the center and symbol of democracy.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spork420 the Trump supporters brought zipties and GUNS & RIFLES and got f****n selfies. zipties are for arresting or kidnapping people....

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That guy in the suit in the MAGA rioters pic looks like security services... not securing much of anything.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason why is because our douchebag president didn't want to stop them because they were his supporters, it shows he only does good to the people who supports him. There was this show I watched on Netflix called "When They See Us", About 4 boys going to jail (1 did actually go to jail, the others went to a juvenile center) for a crime they did not commit. They were convicted of rape and murder. Donald Trump said that they should be put on the death penalty. SMH, really you are putting teenagers on the death penalty for a crime they did not commit. I can go on and on about what Trump caused in the U.S. But Trump Americans are showing their true colors. If it was black or other heritage protesters, there would have been a deadly shooting.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This states the obvious that quite a few police sided with the Trump “protesters”. Secret Service had to be rearranged so that President Elect Biden had the same Secret Service men he had when he was Vice President because the alliances of the ones protecting Trump were questionable.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't try that at a museum... seems the art works at Capitol Hill aren't worthy of protection.

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