Mike Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: 'We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces'
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Mike Johnson claimed he will release the rest of the Jan. 6 footage in the interest of transparency, as soon as staffers blur the faces of the participants.

Yes. You read that right. Johnson is saying that he is intentionally hiding insurrectionists from prosecution in the release of tapes that Republicans claim will vindicate them on January 6th.

  • chowder@lemmy.one
    115·
    11 months ago

    Someone was peacefully trampled to death, Ashley Babbitt was peacefully shot breaking into the capitol, and those were gallows of peace.

    • HerrBeter@lemmy.world
      572·
      11 months ago

      They literally dragged a security guard out of the door and beat him to death. Because of all the preconditions that the seditionists set up, there were few guards and they didn’t escalate. It saved their lives at least, but it was corrupt to the core

      • Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world
        32·
        11 months ago

        I think you’re confusing Michael Fanone (dragged out, tased and beaten, had a heart attack but survived) with Brian Sicknick (had a stroke late that night and died the next day). To my knowledge, Sicknick wasn’t involved in any assault that is believed to have caused his death.

        (Before anyone jumps down my throat, I think all the Jan 6th rioters are traitors. I just think it’s important to be accurate.)

      • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
        82·
        11 months ago

        Wait, I thought they backed tracked that claim of beating to death. Instead it was determined it was something else that was a result of that day. Heart attack or something along the lines.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          362·
          11 months ago

          Natural causes…that resulted from being beaten to half an inch of his life and left to die, yeah?

          They record the final cause (heart attack, aneurism,) as being the cause… but no one who reads the autopsy report with even half a brain really thinks he would be alive today if the beating never happened

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          121·
          11 months ago

          “Officially” it was “natural causes” and a total “coincidence” that a Trump-supporting cop was beaten to near-death by other Trump supporters and died within hours. Naturally. As one does.

          • Froyn@kbin.social
            1·
            11 months ago

            Bullets are expensive. Just rebuild the gallows they assembled.

            Public hangings go a long way to deter treason.
            I draw that conclusion from the lack of hangings and correlative increase in treason.

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              11 months ago

              Just rebuild the gallows they assembled.

              They were never going to hang someone from those gallows. They were shoddy work, would have collapsed if they tried. They would have had to execute people some other way if they’d won.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          16·
          11 months ago

          They really did. One of my neighbors is a cop and always talks about “don’t break the law and you won’t have a problem”, “just comply”, “fuck around and find out”, etc.

          Then when she got shot, he was outraged. He was showing me the video expecting me to be equally mad. I was like “damn, I can’t believe that law enforcement gave her that many chances to back down.” My neighbor still thinks she was some kind of hero.