Though Americans of all political stripes were united in outrage over the Capitol riots, the aftermath of what happened on January 6th has seen fierce political divisions further inflamed over what some conservatives view as grotesque and ridiculous comparisons by liberals of the Capitol riots to last month’s deadly suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan as well as to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
On the flip side, liberals and their allies in the mainstream press have worked overtime to downplay more apropos contrasts conservatives have made between the Capitol riots and last year’s Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots, the latter of which took place over a period of several months in Democrat-run cities across America after the May 25th, 2020 officer-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
While they refrained from drawing any hard conclusions, RealClearInvestigations did an in-depth analysis of the data from not just the Capitol riots and last year’s Antifa/BLM-led riots, but also the January 2017 riots that took place during then-President Trump’s inauguration.
Here were some of their findings:
-The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. George Floyd rioters were found to have used more sophisticated and dangerous tactics than did the Capitol rioters, and in some cases weapons of greater lethality.-Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases. Many accused Capitol rioters, unlike accused participants in the other riots, have been held in pretrial detention for months – with one defendant serving more time than the maximum sentence for the charge to which he pleaded guilty. Some allegedly endured solitary confinement and other mistreatment.-With authorities applying lenient prosecutorial standards in many major cities torn by the summer riots, the vast majority of charges last year were dismissed, as were charges in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Charges have to date been dropped in only a single Capitol riot case.
Another key point to note about last summer’s riots were the targets in some of the riots. It’s not uncommon to see liberals try to argue that the Capitol riots were “symbolically” worse because the Capitol building was targeted during what was supposed to be part of the peaceful transfer of power process.
What they conveniently forget, however, is that in some cities, left-wing rioters deliberately targeted government buildings including a federal courthouse, as this Twitter user reminded people as the left was busy minimizing the summer 2020 riots in the immediate aftermath of what took place at the Capitol building in January:
The full RealClearInvestigations database with the side-by-side information is here. It appears they’ll be updating it with new information periodically, so make sure to bookmark it and check the link from time to time.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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