just thinking about that "half of Capital invaders may go free because they were allowed to leave"

[bullimiami]

really WTF kind of sense does that make?

how does allowing them to leave have any bearing whatsoever on the crimes they committed and being prosecuted for them?

I mean. OK I robbed the bank but I left so now its too late to charge me?
In what alternate universe has that ever been anything?

[dawg day]

1. My little cousin (I mean, 5 feet tall, 90 pounds) was arrested at a demonstration

along with hundreds of others, and it was mostly peaceful, and her offense was yelling at an officer and standing there while he knocked her down.

I guess it's just so much easier to arrest PEACEFUL demonstrators?

[riversedge]

2. They are looking for lots more Trump himself told them to go home in his message at the end of the

day--or late afternoon.
Not too late to charge them.

[brush]

3. Of course they shouldn't have been allowed to leave but that's white privilege...

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for you. And the Capitol police were so unprepared they were busy trying to save their own lives and had no way to arrest the thousands of insurectionists.

Now the FBI has to try to ID the criminals through tips, videos and stills online...not the easiest thing to do.

All they can do is keep plugging away at the mountains of online info they have.

[Dan]

4. The military (if allowed) could have surrounded the Capital

And arrested the whole lot of them.

But they didn’t do that.

They were allowed to go home.

And now,

The poor fools, at home, have to sit there, and wonder - when the doorbells rings....

[FreepFryer]

5. As opposed to, say, locking them in and besieging them? This is a straw man top to bottom imho.

[WHITT]

6. I Watched

as they formed the circle and then kept expanding outward. Talk about ass backwards and too late, they should have encircled the Capitol grounds and shrank the circle, zip-tied everybody and sorted out later who was outside and who was inside. But then I remembered that National Guard was under operating orders from the Pentagon, which was under operating orders from the White House.

Yet another reason DC should be a state with its own National Guard.

[brooklynite]

7. Who is saying "half the Capital invaders may go free"?

[WarGamer]

13. no one.

[bullimiami]

15. this was an article headline a couple days back. it was posted. maybe someone can find and relink it

i believe it was an actual article and not an opinion piece.

[PortTack]

8. I'm not buying that!! The FBI has everyone's cell phone data that was near or around the capital

On 1/6. It takes time to build a case and then go after these idiots.

I’ve seen more than one press conference by FBI agents that say they will be bringing ALL of them to justice.

[dsc]

9. I don't think anyone means they aren't legally culpable because they were permitted to leave

they mean that they are uncatchable because of that.

[bdamomma]

10. no sense

they are worried about children at the border but not about domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol.

[JHB]

11. I'm not quite sure what you're quoting there...

...as I just got off work (something at a hearing?), but the first thing that comes to my mind is simply not enough evidence to place some percentage of the participants there. If they didn't have an electronic device that places them there, if they didn't show up clearly enough on any photos or videos, if they didn't advertise their participation on social media, what's the evidence they performed criminal acts?

It would have been a different story if they'd been detained and either were arrested or at least had to be identified before leaving.

[WarGamer]

12. that's not accurate.

What you're referring to is... the FBI has said as many as HALF the Capitol invaders may never be apprehended.

That doesn't mean HALF of those arrested will walk.

It means that HALF may never be ID'd

[lagomorph777]

17. +1 Exactly.

[uponit7771]

18. I don't see how "may never be apprehended" is better. Either way, it looks like these people wont

... be held responsible in part because they're white

[Demsrule86]

14. Trump said the troops could not arrest anyone...that is why they were allowed to leave...it was

orders.

[lagomorph777]

16. Not too late to charge them, but much more tedious to round them up.

They were allowed to leave because Trump blocked the National Guard from being there. It's frankly a miracle that the badly outnumbered Capitol Police were able to get them to leave at all.