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2024-10-30 05:55:00 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 761C02A5AFD19DE935405E4CA4809FCD47348748BD586EABA0E9454CBFD97F52
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Many protesters were armed and 140 police officers were attacked on January 6th. “We know of about 20 cases involving guns at the Capitol [that day]”. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5159868/a-fact-check-about-what-trump-and-harris-are-saying-about-jan-6 Many more were armed with pepper spray, knives, bats, riot shields, flag poles, etc: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/man-who-attacked-police-with-poles-in-jan-6-capitol-riot-gets-20-year-prison-sentence https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-jan-6-testimony-6aed3489f86af1b3ed0c4b8e876768c4 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/us/politics/brian-sicknick-julian-khater-george-tanios-jan-6.html
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