r/news • u/N3ws_h0und • 19d ago

Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: 'I saved countless lives'

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-during-capitol-riot-breaks-silence-n1277736
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u/Cormano_Wild_219 19d ago

You don’t think tanks would show up to disperse protest?

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u/Monkyd1 19d ago

Different country. Different situation. Try again.

The U.S can't do that. Dangerous people would be disappeared by other means.

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u/Charon2393 19d ago

They have before,

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/

"On July 28, 1932 the U.S. government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of textbook heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The WWI vets were part of a Bonus Army who came to Washington, D.C. to make a demand for their promised wartime bonuses. "

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u/caballero_jetable 19d ago

no, we just drop literal bombs on philadelphia housing projects

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u/Cormano_Wild_219 19d ago

I’m aware that it’s a different country, different situation. The point is that a government can and will deploy the military to be used as law enforcement. And even if it’s not the military there are thousands upon thousands of federal, state, county, and even municipal law enforcement agencies that have “tanks” for some reason. So, the US can do that.