TVAP,
Bail after being arrested is not a get out of “responsibility for your actions” free card.
Over 10,000 people were arrested in just the first 10 days after Floyd’s death on May 25. The arrests are permanently on the person’s record, they face jail time or a fine and losing employment. (Trump supporters are now learning this the hard way.)
Between 15 to 26 million people attended a demonstration over the death of George Floyd and others. (Now you know why Trump lost. 81,000,000 people are disgusted with him. ) Most of them were peaceful.
Democratic leaders did not cheer on violence and destruction. They were advocating for protests and they encouraged continue protests.
The protesters at the Trump rally were protesting a lie that was fed to them by Trump that the election was stolen. If you listen to his long speech at the protest, he repeats this many times.
What did Trump want to happen after his speech? Saying walk over peacefully does not exonerate him for the other times that he intimated that it needs to be more forceful.
“We’re gathered together in the heart of our nation’s Capitol for one very, very basic and simple reason, to save our democracy.”
“We will not let them silence your voices. We’re not going to let it happen. Not going to let it happen.”
“Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.”
“That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing. We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved.”
“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.” (THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST DAMNING STATEMENTS HE SAID.)
“Let them get out. Let the weak ones get out. This is a time for strength….It’s all part of the comprehensive assault on our democracy and the American people to finally standing up and saying, ‘No.’ This crowd is again a testament to it.”
“You will have an illegitimate president, that’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen.” (THIS IS ALSO A DAMNING STATEMENT.)
“We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we’ve been forced to believe over the past several weeks. We’ve amassed overwhelming evidence about a fake election.”
“We’re going to see whether or not we have great and courageous leaders or whether or not we have leaders that should be ashamed of themselves throughout history, throughout eternity, they’ll be ashamed. And you know what? If they do the wrong thing, we should never ever forget that they did. Never forget. We should never ever forget.”
I reject violence, looting and rioting. I also reject stealing, murder and assault. I reject racism also.