OP: They were "unarmed tourists".
Me: They weren't tourists and some of them were armed with weapons... including guns.
Of these^ 2 claims I don't see how you can sit there complaining about mine being the misleading one. 🤔
These aren't accusations, or heresay, or charges.. this has been proven in a court of law. At least one of them tased a cop. There is video of them beating a cop with a flagpole. Many policemen were injured. "Seditious conspiracy" vs "Insurrection" potato potáto..
Did ALL or even MOST of them go there and beat up policemen and try to Stop the 'Steal' aka pressure / convince Mike Pence to "do what he should have done" aka not certify the electoral votes... ? Idk. Probably not. Most of em were a bunch of disorganized idiots.
But some of them were more organized... and some had caches of guns stashed around the Capitol. Prior to that people here were talking about it referencing "1776" ( the insurrection against the British).
Try to see it from a different pov.
Imagine if BLM stood for "Burn and Loot Macy's"... because someone famous said Macy's was racist. A thousand people who supported the movement protested outside surrounding Macy's... a few hundred of the thousand people who showed up ended up going inside through windows that other people in the group broke, some of them beat up security guards, and some of them were found guilty of assault, assault with a weapon, conspiracy to commit arson, and attempted theft. Maybe 2 people were caught there with matches and gasoline. In a hotel not too far away they found a stash of more gas cans and matches. One of the supporter's truck was found nearby with molotov cocktails.
Then later they turned around and were like...... nah... nah bro.... BLM wasn't there to burn and loot Macy's. They were just there to go shopping. Only 2 people there were caught with matches and gasoline.
If these were democrats supporting Biden, illegal immigrants, ISIS, BLM, or anyone other than trump supporters, I think you and many other people here's rhetoric would be completely different.