@beardalaxy @SuperDicq tbf i think it would have been better for everyone if they had just charged people with the normal crimes and not tried to astroturf the whole "worse than 9/11" crap and then try to hide all the evidence.

some people did some sanctionable things and they could have just charged them with those things and it would probably stick (but it would't let them try to game 20 years of prison and a narrative out of it) but they tried to use weird charges, politicized the whole thing, and were caught beating prisoners etc.

the same people who would then run the country afterward had, earlier that year, paid to bail out explicitly violent rioters elsewhere in the country.

it was "mostly peaceful when we did it" but "terrorism when you do it," which i think i saw polling showed its basically entirely tribal how both of those riots are interpreted