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In reply to the discussion: THE OPPORTUNITY COSTS OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT MERRICK GARLAND [View all]MineralMan
(150,482 posts)at that time. Not in those numbers. The insurrectionists simply walked away. Maybe you don't remember the situation very well. I do.
There were not enough law enforcement people on the scene to arrest all of those people. They had to be identified and tracked down later. And that was done - quite well, in fact.
Many of the things you are saying are simply not accurate. Now, I don't know why that is, but they aren't. Once it was clear that forces were showing up to put an end to the insurrection, people simply left the area right away. I watched that happen. They were there, and suddenly they weren't. Donald J. Trump was largely responsible for there being too few law enforcement people on scene. That was deliberate. However, proving that is not as simple as saying it.
So, if you're going to say things that aren't so, I'm going to point those things out. Yes, I am.