一名士兵守在他的M60机枪旁,机枪被架设在美国国会大厦的台阶上,旨在马丁·路德·金遇刺引发的华盛顿特区骚乱期间,阻止暴徒进入大楼。(1968年4月)[800 x 1157]
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[已删除]2,551 赞2021/1/8
It's almost as if they were ordered to protect the capitol maybe? IDK. Kind of a risky assumption.
搞不好他们就是奉命来保护国会大厦的呢?谁知道呢。这推测也有点太冒险了吧。
[已删除]703 赞2021/1/8
I think he just wanted to show off his cool machinegun
我觉得他纯粹就是想秀一下他那把酷毙了的机枪。
adanishplz348 赞2021/1/8
He's actually there on his own time, flaunting his sweet gun.
他其实是私人时间跑那儿去的,纯属在那儿炫耀他那杆帅枪。
aiden22304102 赞2021/1/8
Can’t blame him. The M60 is the Chaddest machine gun out there.
这真怪不得他。M60 绝对是市面上最硬核的机枪了。
fish_slap_republic57 赞2021/1/9
In the Vietnam war the special forces loved them, though the front line units did not. This is was because they were pretty high maintenance. The spec ops guys missions were short and it was routine for them to clean and fix all their equipment between missions. The front line units often had no such luxury so the M60 would start to fail in the field.
You ever read about the Battle of Ia Drang? It was Hal Moore's unit, Nov. 1965 I think (been a while since I read his book). One of the M60 gunners was still at his post after the battle and they counted several hundred dead around him. I'll look it up and update
你读过关于德浪河谷战役(Battle of Ia Drang)的记载吗?好像是 1965 年 11 月哈尔·摩尔(Hal Moore)的那支部队(我已经好一阵子没翻他的书了)。其中一名 M60 机枪手在战斗结束后依然坚守岗位,人们发现他周围堆了几百具敌军尸体。我再去查证一下,回头补上。
lizard_chested33 赞2021/1/9
It's like having 2 dicks, but one can kill people.
这感觉就像长了两根鸡巴,但其中一根能杀人。
outlawa30 赞2021/1/9
One kills people, the other can make people. It's the perfect balance...
一根能杀人,另一根能造人。这平衡感简直绝了……
formulaone8846 赞2021/1/9
Someone I know who is in a position to know told me that during Vietnam there were machine gun nests within the pentagon in case protesters breached.
我认识个消息灵通的人告诉我,越战期间五角大楼里设有机枪阵地,就是为了防着抗议者万一冲进来。
its_a_me_garri_oh22 赞2021/1/9
I wonder if they are still there? Better get a mob of my white friends together, stroll on over and find out.
不知道他们还在不在那儿?
最好叫上一帮白人哥们儿,大摇大摆地过去一探究竟。
JackC11261,267 赞2021/1/8
Whenever I see pictures from the 60s-70s civil rights protests I’m shocked. They literally were rolling entire regiments down the streets of DC. If the gov tried that today...
It is shocking, no denying it. It is also shocking that there were *thousands* of domestic bombings from 1970 to 1972. And yet the upheaval we're going through right now still seems worse. I think back then most people believed the Government would prevail and do the right thing and end the war and things could go back to normal. Now, not so much.
> And yet the upheaval we're going through right now still seems worse. Probably because you're looking at the 1970s as past historical events and you know everything that happened *after* those events. Since you cannot predict the future, you don't know what will actually happen in the 2020s so you can't be comforted by the fact that you know that "it didn't result in anything drastic".
It seems worse, but it isn’t worse. That impression is a result the amplifying effect of personal cameras in phones, social media, increasingly polarised mainstream media and a scattershot political discourse. Things are bad, but they scarcely come close to some of the roughest decades in the 20th century.
I don't think anyone expected a sitting president to orchestrate a riot on capital hill. And what if the president did march with them? You think they're going to fire a fucking m2 into a crowd that includes the Commander in Chief?
They would have if the people protesting had been black.
如果当时抗议的人是黑人的话,他们肯定就这么做了。
Killfile1,146 赞2021/1/8
As we consider images like these, remember: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Yes, it is _possible_ that the Cap Hill Police were "in on it" and deliberately under-staffed, under-prepared, and then allowed the rioters access to the building. But it's also just as possible, and frankly more likely, that they fell victim to some bad assumptions: namely that a bunch of Blue Lives Matter folks wouldn't *dare* try to cross a police barrier. So they only prepared for a peaceful protest despite warnings to the contrary. Now, that's not seditious, but it is dumb as hell. And once their positions were over-run, they basically had two choices right? Deploy lethal force in small pockets, get over-run, and turn the entire thing into a bloody insurrection or fall back and try to make nice with Y'all Queda in the hopes that they'd go away quietly. That doesn't excuse their failure and foolishness and it's totally appropirate that the chief of the Cap Hill Police as well as the Senate and House Sgt at Arms have been asked to resign. But it's important that we not jump at shadows right now. It's way more likely that these people just screwed up than it is that they were part of a seditious conspiracy to hold Congress hostage or something.
Anyone monitoring Parler and other right wing social networks - including the folks at - has seen the rhetoric over the past week that "cops are now on the enemy's side". If state intelligence genuinely didn't see this coming, they're not doing their jobs right.
But after 9/11, the government gave all intelligence agencies WAY more power to basicly do whatever they want. It's almost as if all those invasions of everyone's privacy doesn't actually accomplish anything...
There's also a huge difference between the open planning of a riot on social media and the covert operations of Al Qaeda.
在社交媒体上公开策划暴乱和基地组织那种隐秘行动之间,有着巨大的差别。
jsting62 赞2021/1/8
In the absence of evidence. There is now a lot of reports showing the USCP was deliberately held back. DC Police was not requested to help and the DC National Guard was ordered to not enter by the DoD and the President himself which is why they came from VA National Guard.
I was with that train of thought - until i saw a video of after people broke through barriers, and a cop runs back towards the crowd (not towards the building) and waves them in, encouraging more and more people to storm the video. EDIT regarding above paragraph: >That video is edited and purposely does not show the context. That cop is waving to other cops to follow him. It is fake. It is misinformation, its no different than the videos that show "proof" of voter fraud.
>
>[Here is a link to further context, including an unedited version.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ksolcp/Capital_Police_waving_people_in_past_the_gates_%3F/gih954i/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) >
>This is how misinformation spreads. Note the original post in my link had over 100k+ upvotes, all people who now believe something wildly wrong. Or the fact that the woman who got shot, had multiple armed police standing right behind her. Instead of trying to protect the door, they are seen on video just walking away down the stairs, leaving the other cops on their own, until she tried to climb through the window and a shot was fired, the suddenly theyre acting (and pointing their gun at capitol police at first?) This is more than the cops being unprepared or overwhelmed. Many of the cops acted maliciously and were complicit. Edit: https://v.redd.it/3sw6crwmh5a61 more complicit cops standing by casually as mob walks past them. Pretty sure one of the dudes walking by in this video looks like the dude caught in pictures with ziptie handcuffs? Yeah let him right in, he has no violent motives... More edit: Everyone saying the cops heading down the stairs were protecting some exit or something... https://v.redd.it/lamt2s8cu5a61 Looks like they were protecting the door and just gave up - ya know how i said the cops on the stairs looked like they were giving up as they started to walk down?
It took me a while before i realized they were actually cops... theyre just standing there casually... Atleast one has an ar15... how did the crowd push past them to that door without any shots being fired?
The cops don't want to shoot anyone, particularly not close up and when surrounded by lots of other people. Really, once you take account of the fact that they were criminally underprepared, everything else slots into place. The cops couldn't open fire on massive crowds because they risked not only murdering loads of people but also people firing back (given that many in the crowd were armed). They couldn't block the rioters because there were just too many of them, and they didn't have necessary equipment (LTL weapons, batons, shields and helmets). They also didn't have the numbers to arrest people, not anywhere to hold arrested people even if they did manage to get them in cuffs. By the time you see the video of the shooting, the ~~secret service~~ police had successfully done the only thing they really could do in the situation: keep the politicians safe and set up a barricade in front of the door to stop people from coming in. This sets up a "line in the sand", where nuisance actions on one side of the line are ignored by law enforcement (since there's no practical way to keep everyone under control) but stepping over the line gets you a warning shot into the neck (since you're presenting a direct threat to politicians in a way which the secret service do not find acceptable). And it worked, too. The ~~secret service~~ police defended the politicians successfully; the crowd in the stairwell where the woman was shot got very concerned with their personal safety and dispersed (up until that point they had the herd mentality which allowed them to act as a crowd); and the police on the far side of the barricade were not involved with the shooting, so were not turned into targets by the crowd. Really, it was a surprising demonstration of good judgement to avoid bloodshed by the security forces as a collective. It's certainly shameful that traitors were allowed into the building to parade around, but importantly: 1. The security of politicians and hence the democratic process was not compromised at any point 2. No cops had to open fire on crowds (which history tells us tends not to be a good thing). Now if only police could start using that same judgement and restraint when dealing with an autistic man playing with a toy truck. Edit: changed secret service to police.
True, bad wording on my part. However, it wasn't permanently disrupted, i.e. the building did not have to be evacuated and no politicians were killed, injured or prevented from voting that same night.
I don't buy this. Look at video of the riot police in all the cities with the George Floyd riots. Rubber bullets, year gas, MRAPs, armies of riot cops. I don't support this kind of militaristic policing, but for fucks sake if it doesn't show some sort of favoritism when one movement gets the active national security threat treatment when vandalizing their local Walmart and the other is allowed to walk into the capitol? And if your answer to this is "well the cops at the Capitol were unprepared and we're denied backup", this just furthers the point. These events were similarly planned. There was ample evidence on socials that this could be an extremely volatile and violent situation, maybe even more evidence than the George Floyd riots.
> the other is allowed to walk into the capitol? They got pretty fucking far too. They didn't just get into the Rotunda. They got on the floor of both chambers and into the offices of elected officials and even the speak of the house's office, second in line to the presidency. I'm no fan of police, but democracy must be defended
>Really, once you take account of the fact that they were criminally underprepared, everything else slots into place. Thats not an excuse when they are actively waving people in, taking selfies with the mob, standing by when a mob attempts to violently break through the secret service's barrier... Thats criminally something, but not underprepared.
If yoy look at the cops faces, the one with the AR, he is panicked. He doesn't know what to do or where to go. He's in the thick of it. He's leaderless. The plainclothes officer is somewhat keeping his cool, and is trying to tell the uniformed one something, and they fall back. Theres no way they would've willing been where they were if they were in communication with the officer on the other side of that door. That officer fired at a woman with police behind her. It was chaos. It was a failure of leadership, planning, coordination, and communication. Could some have been in on it? Possibly...but not likely the majority. The majority were simply left out in the wind.
I'm more surprised by the lack of more security at the Capitol knowing that the storm would take place beforehand. I mean, it's the Capitol, so it's safe to assume security would/should be tight. If it's so easy for the crowd to break in like that, imagine what is going through other terrorists' mind right now.
That video has some unexplained digital zooming on it as he waves. We don't know who the cop was really waving in. There is a possibility he was signaling to other officers to fall back. We don't know all the facts yet.
From what I have seen or read, the police were moving up to where the woman was shot. They arrived there just as she got shot. It does seem like some police officers were making life for the rioters easier, but in that one instance it didn’t seem like the cops let the woman try to get through the door, they just didn’t get to the door in time to stop it. But overall it’s baffling how unprepared capital police were.
There is video, of the crowd trying to push through the barricade moments before the shot. The cops are standing to the side doing nothing. Then they start heading down the stairs. No idea why. They only turn around when the shot is fired, at which point they come back up the stairs, one of them momentarily points his ar15 towards where the shot was fired from, before probably realizing who fired the shot and that it wasnt one of the mob. Its very clear on video
Except last week we saw several state houses overrun by the very same people who crossed police lines and broke into them all while ignoring police orders. So while that’s possible that they didn’t feel like these people wouldn’t cross police lines because blue lives “whatever”, that’s not a very good argument to make as there was literal proof these idiots were going to do the same thing to the US capital.
The level of negligence needed for this to not have been actively supported is so staggering it easily overcomes the base assumption of negligence. The exact same situation happened in the last 6 months, with a vastly different response. It was a obvious event, known to be taking place well in advance. The only possible level of negligence is that sympathy with the protestors led to not increasing man power. Now replace protestors with a foreign power and sympathy means your a traitor.
> never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I dunno, I've seen this peddled so often over the years and I'm beginning to feel like it lets so many malicious people off the hook when people dismiss their malevolence as mere stupidity.
Well the capitol police were taking selfies with protestors so that’s a thing
噢,国会大厦的警察当时还在跟抗议者自拍呢,所以这事儿……你懂的。
PiousHeathen51 赞2021/1/8
The argument that the police outside the capitol were somehow duped or overwhelmed by the insurrectionists is undercut by footage such as [this](https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1347320039490387968) which shows officers not only opening the barriers but also waving groups onto the Capitol grounds beyond the barricades. Footage from the shooting of the woman inside the building shows 3 officers standing around talking (coordinating) with people assaulting the barricaded doors, and they do not choose to do anything to control the situation until AFTER the woman is shot. There were clearly members of the Capitol Police who CHOSE to assist or at least act complicit in the assault on the Capitol building. The narrative they were somehow too scared to resist or execute their duty and their oaths is at best an excuse for craven, cowardly behaviour from people that are given the trust and means to defend, physically, the insitutions of America. At worst, it is revisionist attempt to whitewash support of a violent coup.
Can't speak to the shooting but one of the problems with cell footage like this is that the videographer tends to focus on the action (the waving cop) and not the context. So - random aside - I spent a number of years doing photography back in the day. Ran a darkroom, did some freelance for local papers, that kind of thing. News photographers LOVE their 35mm lenses and the reason they do is that at 35mm shapes aren't that distorted but you get a really good view of what's going on in context. 200mm highlights a detail. 85mm shows a subject. 35mm tells a story. I can't tell who or what this cop is waving at and so I'm hesitant to condemn him for a half second arm motion, without context. Now... it does look pretty shitty. But, and I really can't stress this enough, **we can't afford to be wrong about this stuff**. Every false accusation that's made undermines the very real crimes and very real attack upon the foundations of our democracy. We have to be sure.
I had hoped I could have this discussion without posting a link to video of this woman's death, but apparently that is impossible. Here is a link to a [synced, multiple view of the incident.](https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ksgvin/hes_got_a_gun_synced_videos_showing_woman_not/) ***NSFL IMAGES OF SOMEONE BEING SHOT AND KILLED*** Note that officers in face masks are WALKING AWAY from people trying to smash their way through the barricades and are choosing to allow this to continue. Officers in tac gear see and hear what is going on and CHOOSE to do nothing. This is not some "the lens creates a narrative" mitigation, this is evidence of indifference.
Im sorry, but you are wrong, it was active sedition, full stop. I appreciate Hanlon’s razor with the best of them, but to allow them this concession allows them to re-galvanize in a few weeks or a few years. This absolutely cannot stand, and to give them the cop-out of Hanlon’s razor “oh they were just well-intentioned idiots”, allows them the opportunity of plausible deniability “we had no idea they would do this!” Yes they knew, and yes they did nothing. Please stop trying to appeal to their better side. These people are American-born terrorists, plain and simple. To not prosecute and punish them to the fullest extent of the law allows them to ebb back into the shadows while they grow their forces and try again.
I really wonder how people would’ve felt if they just unloaded on them though...like that would look fucking terrible imo. Just a lose lose situation.
说实话,我真好奇要是当时直接开火了大家会怎么想……我觉得那画面绝对会烂透了。简直就是个双输的局面。
probly_right395 赞2021/1/8
Definitely. International horror scene that you can't talk around as it was the center of the nation's capital.
确实。这会是一场没法圆过去的国际丑闻,毕竟这可是发生在国家首都的心脏地带。
Potter3769455 赞2021/1/8
*laughs in Tiananmen Square*
*在天安门广场大笑*
probly_right303 赞2021/1/8
*cries in Tiananmen Square*
*在天安门广场痛哭*
StoreManagerKaren178 赞2021/1/8
>cries in Tiananmen Square Cries in ------------------
>在天安门广场痛哭
在------------------中痛哭
houlmyhead38 赞2021/1/9
Guffaws in Kent State
在肯特州立大学笑出声(注:此处为反讽,借用肯特州立大学枪击事件影射“暴力镇压”)。
ManfredsJuicedBalls50 赞2021/1/9
China: What? Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Absolutely nothing!
中国:什么?1989年在天安门广场什么都没发生。绝对什么都没发生!
xombae32 赞2021/1/9
Those people self-flattened and you know it!
那些人是自己把自己压扁的,你心里清楚!
real_joke_is_always36 赞2021/1/9
*You have been permanently banned from
*你已被永久禁止进入 社区*
[已删除]20 赞2021/1/9
Jesus Christ even just the first few posts are a shitshow
天哪,光是看看头几篇帖子就已经乱成一锅粥了。
Potter376924 赞2021/1/8
Yea definitely more accurate
没错,确实更准了。
CallTheOptimist15 赞2021/1/9
*tin soldiers and Nixon comin. We're finally on our own*
*锡兵和尼克松要来了。我们终究还是得靠自己了。*
ZMAC69867 赞2021/1/9
That’s what I am thinking. I hear all these people saying we should’ve just gunned them down, but that would look fucking terrible. Gunning down your own citizens? Yeah they were doing something stupid, but it would reflect poorly having hundreds of dead bodies at our capital.
They didn’t need to gun them down but they seem to be able to shut down other protests, even peaceful ones, so there is absolutely a way to prevent what happened the other day.
I agree up to the point where the Congress people’s lives were in danger. For example, if they had stormed faster and they were banging on the doors or getting closer with speed as Pence and everyone else was inside before they could evacuate, I’d have no issue with firing past a certain “no return point” or something because that would be such an issue. Imagine if they took some of them hostage or something.
That's exactly what happened. That's why the 35 y/o woman was shot, because she tried to scale the last barricade between the protesters and the people working in the Capitol.
That's exactly what happened to the terrorist that was shot and killed. She was attempting to breach the last hallway between Capitol police/Secret Service and where Pence and the senators were being held.
Worst part is that at the time most Americans approved of the shooting. Should be something about it on the wiki.
最糟糕的部分是,当时大多数美国人还支持那次枪击。维基百科上应该有相关内容。
1questions69 赞2021/1/9
That was a different situation. The other day people were literally climbing the walls of the capitol building, which goes beyond protest and goes onto takeover. What they did was not ok. There are points between do nothing and shoot everyone. We have more security at an airport than we do at our nations capitol.
and maybe different barricades than the ones used for the line for a ride at the fair.
而且路障或许该换种设法,而不是用那种游乐场排队用的护栏。
RangerDedra176 赞2021/1/8
When you look at photos like this & photos of disabled protesters being forcefully removed, makes you think about how easily the cops let those terrorists in to trash the place. What a disgrace.
This picture is fascinating to me. It's not just the context of a soldier on the steps of the Capital, but I wonder what the man was thinking about as he stood there. I suspect a lot of soldiers in that position would be asking themselves if they would be capable of using that machine gun on citizens.
Allowing them all to leave is worse than letting them in. But, again, this *is* the same country that allowed armed militia to take over a Federal building and occupy it for thirty days. Brought them cigarettes and luxury items as they lounged around playing fucking video games. They killed Fred Hampton **in his bedroom**, he had an *actual*, legitimate gripe, and purpose.
I watched an interview with a veteran officer from the Vietnam War, who said one of his men killed an estimated 200 vietnamese soldiers charging them with one of those machine guns. The carnage it would cause in a bunched up mob is unthinkable.
I remember a bit from Ken Burns Vietnam where veteran Dr. Roger Harris was mentioning how when he got back from Vietnam, his unit was told to get ready to go out and protect areas from the rioting after the assasination of Martin Luther King and at first he was ready to go as he thought they were going to give them billy clubs and stand infront of buildings and protect businesses, until they started handing out flak jackets, helmets and M14's and M16's with live rounds, the same kind of stuff they were using in Vietnam to fight the Vietcong rather than their own people. He refused to go and he said that's why he thinks he never made Sergeant.
Hmm gee I wonder why this was posted all of a sudden hmmmm
嗯哼,嘿,我还真是好奇,这玩意儿怎么突然就被发出来了呢,嗯哼。
AliceHart78 赞2021/1/8
If black ppl might riot, they get all the law enforcement and guns and etc. If white ppl might riot, they move the gates and let them inside and take selfies with them.
Well yeah, because none of his friends were in THAT riot
那倒也是,毕竟他那些朋友当时又没去参加那场暴乱。
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