Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「On Wednesday, a crowd of white supporters of President Donald Trump livestreamed a fascist insurrection. They filmed themselves storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., tossing aside barricades, smashing windows and ransacking legislative offices. They filmed themselves screaming and chanting, exultant that they’d somehow just occupied the seat of American power. ⁠ ⁠ Even with all the warning and time to prepare, the Capitol Police were overrun. At times, and disturbingly so, some even appeared to be accommodating. Livestreams showed cops shaking hands and posing for selfies with these MAGA insurrectionists. Other videos showed the relative ease with which Trump’s supporters trespassed into the Capitol, charging past police and forcing lawmakers to evacuate.⁠ ⁠ The thing is, the Capitol Police are well-practiced at mass arrests. And they’ve earned a reputation for being unforgiving and cruel enough, for example, to drag disabled demonstrators from the halls of Congress for demanding affordable health care. ⁠ ⁠ So why did cops appear to stand down so easily as a MAGA mob laid siege to the Capitol? Why surrender so quickly to a horde of Red Hats, leaving them to urinate on the floor and loot offices, causing elected officials to flee into hiding? It’s a question numerous investigations will try to answer over the next months and years. ⁠ ⁠ These inquiries will likely conclude that cops were undermanned and that the agencies involved ignored mountains of intelligence showing pro-Trump extremists openly plotting the Jan. 6 insurrection online, in plain sight. (U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resigned on Thursday.) ⁠ ⁠ But what the chaos in the capital on Wednesday has already laid bare is how law enforcement often uses a hands-off approach to white right-wing demonstrations — such as the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — while being well-prepared to violently crush movements for liberation and racial justice.⁠ ⁠ Read HuffPost Senior Reporter Christopher Mathias' full story at our link in bio.」1月9日 8時11分