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I suspect the police weren't shooting because they realized how overwhelmed they were. I've seen a couple of videos where they had drawn their guns and prepared to fire but they were simply surrounded.



The interaction I saw between the rioters and those defending the Capitol just after the woman was shot seem more enlightening than this theory.


Crowds would have dispersed pretty quickly if the cops started shooting


Probably not. Even when actually shot, people don’t always run. It would be pretty hard for them to stop the crowd with a few cops and a few handguns.


Or they would have stormed the cops in a blind rage, killed them, and taken their weapons.




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