{"id":4211,"date":"2021-01-12T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:49:24","slug":"the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4211","title":{"rendered":"The Police\u2019s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn\u2019t An Aberration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Instead of National Guard troops being\u00a0posted en masse around landmarks<\/a>\u00a0before a protest even began, we saw\u00a0the Defense Department initially deny a request to send in troops<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and that was\u00a0after\u00a0<\/em>the Capitol had been breached. Instead of\u00a0peaceful protesters being doused in tear gas<\/a>, we saw\u00a0a mob posing for selfies with police and being allowed to wander the corridors of power<\/a>\u00a0like they couldn\u2019t decide whether they were invading the Capitol or touring it. Instead of President Trump\u00a0calling these violent supporters \u201cthugs<\/a>,\u201d as he called racial justice protesters, and advocating for more violent police crackdowns, we saw\u00a0him remind his followers that they were loved<\/a>\u00a0before asking them nicely to go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0\u201cIt feels really unbelievable,\u201d said Roudabeh Kishi, director of research and innovation with the nonprofit\u00a0Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project<\/a>. But, she said, it\u2019s also totally unsurprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because the discrepancies we saw Wednesday are just another example of a trend Kishi\u2019s team has been tracking for months as they collect data on protester and law enforcement interactions across America. \u201cWe see a different response to the right wing<\/a>,\u201d she said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“in 2020, Kishi\u2019s ACLED \u2014 a data-reporting project that began documenting armed conflicts and protests in African nations \u2014 extended its work into the United States. Using information<\/a> gathered from local media, NGOs, individual journalists and partner organizations, ACLED researchers have catalogued months of detailed information about protests, including when clashes with law enforcement have happened and the type of force used by police. \u201cWe don\u2019t necessarily have information on the number of Black vs. white protesters \u2026 but we do have a larger view,\u201d Kishi said. \u201cHow is law enforcement responding to demonstrations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement versus demonstrations by the right wing \u2026 in support of [a] president that may or may not involve organized armed illegal groups?\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Between May 1 and November 28, 2020, authorities were more than twice as likely to attempt to break up and disperse a left-wing protest1<\/sup><\/a> than a right-wing2<\/sup><\/a> one. And in those situations when law enforcement chose to intervene, they were more likely to use force \u2014 34 percent of the time with right-wing protests compared with 51 percent of the time for the left. Given when this data was collected, it predominantly reflects a difference in how police respond to Black Lives Matter, compared with how they respond to anti-mask demonstrations, pro-Trump extremists, QAnon rallies, and militia groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The differences in intervention weren\u2019t because BLM protests were particularly violent<\/a>. ACLED found that 93 percent of the protests associated with BLM were entirely peaceful. \u201cEven if we were to put those [7] percent of demonstrations aside and look purely at peaceful [BLM protests], we are seeing a more heavy handed response [compared with right-wing protests],\u201d Kishi said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Instead of National Guard troops being posted en masse around landmarks before a protest even began, we saw the Defense Department initially deny a request to send in troops \u2014 and that was after the Capitol had been breached. Instead of peaceful protesters being doused in tear gas, we saw a mob posing for selfies with police and being allowed to wander the corridors of power like they couldn\u2019t decide whether they were invading the Capitol or touring it. Instead of President Trump calling these violent supporters \u201cthugs,\u201d as he called racial justice protesters, and advocating for more violent police crackdowns, we saw him remind his followers that they were loved before asking them nicely to go home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels really unbelievable,\u201d said Roudabeh Kishi, director of research and innovation with the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. But, she said, it\u2019s also totally unsurprising.
\nThat\u2019s because the discrepancies we saw Wednesday are just another example of a trend Kishi\u2019s team has been tracking for months as they collect data on protester and law enforcement interactions across America. \u201cWe see a different response to the right wing,\u201d she said.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“in 2020, Kishi\u2019s ACLED \u2014 a data-reporting project that began documenting armed conflicts and protests in African nations \u2014 extended its work into the United States. Using information gathered from local media, NGOs, individual journalists and partner organizations, ACLED researchers have catalogued months of detailed information about protests, including when clashes with law enforcement have happened and the type of force used by police. \u201cWe don\u2019t necessarily have information on the number of Black vs. white protesters \u2026 but we do have a larger view,\u201d Kishi said. \u201cHow is law enforcement responding to demonstrations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement versus demonstrations by the right wing \u2026 in support of [a] president that may or may not involve organized armed illegal groups?\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Between May 1 and November 28, 2020, authorities were more than twice as likely to attempt to break up and disperse a left-wing protest1 than a right-wing2 one. And in those situations when law enforcement chose to intervene, they were more likely to use force \u2014 34 percent of the time with right-wing protests compared with 51 percent of the time for the left. Given when this data was collected, it predominantly reflects a difference in how police respond to Black Lives Matter, compared with how they respond to anti-mask demonstrations, pro-Trump extremists, QAnon rallies, and militia groups.<\/p>\n

The differences in intervention weren\u2019t because BLM protests were particularly violent. ACLED found that 93 percent of the protests associated with BLM were entirely peaceful. \u201cEven if we were to put those [7] percent of demonstrations aside and look purely at peaceful [BLM protests], we are seeing a more heavy handed response [compared with right-wing protests],\u201d Kishi said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,305,1138,1145,1133,285,1134],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-bias","tag-capitol-building","tag-capitol-police","tag-mob","tag-police","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}