It's Going Down on Nostr: Useful reflections from the streets of DC about how indifference to far-Right ...
Useful reflections from the streets of DC about how indifference to far-Right violence in the lead up to J6 helped create conditions for the attempted coup.
"For local DC activists, N14 and D12 had the opposite effect. We understood, on a visceral level, the violence that Trump supporters were capable of. After all, they had already committed that violence on us and our neighbors. When his supporters talked about bringing guns to DC, we took that threat seriously too. During both N14 and D12, a number of Proud Boys had walked around with handguns on their hips. They would lift up their shirts and show them off to counter-protesters while police nearby did nothing. We didn’t have to imagine Trump supporters smuggling guns into DC for J6, we knew they had done it before."
https://dcmediagroup.us/2024/10/12/reflections-on-january-6-planned-in-the-open-yet-made-invisible-what-it-means-for-the-2024-election/
"For local DC activists, N14 and D12 had the opposite effect. We understood, on a visceral level, the violence that Trump supporters were capable of. After all, they had already committed that violence on us and our neighbors. When his supporters talked about bringing guns to DC, we took that threat seriously too. During both N14 and D12, a number of Proud Boys had walked around with handguns on their hips. They would lift up their shirts and show them off to counter-protesters while police nearby did nothing. We didn’t have to imagine Trump supporters smuggling guns into DC for J6, we knew they had done it before."
https://dcmediagroup.us/2024/10/12/reflections-on-january-6-planned-in-the-open-yet-made-invisible-what-it-means-for-the-2024-election/