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wnylib

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3. It might be worth caring about if
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 08:20 PM
Jan 2021

she becomes a martyr to the terrorist cause and they rally around her death.

Aside from that, her death is on Trump's hands for inciting this riot and shows how deadly his coup attempt is. Beyond disrupting Congress in progress, threatening them, and causing destruction of federal property, it has now cost someone her life.

If she was part of the mob, then yes, she brought it on herself. But the loss of life is always a risk in a riot and Trump now has yet another death on his hands.

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