<story><title>FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-college-certification-congress/card/rghQKMAF2ju2wkrUlcj1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>Let’s be blunt... because white people.&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.&lt;p&gt;The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.&lt;p&gt;What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisburbansky</author><text>Worse than that, the FBI has known for a decade and a half that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement was and would continue to be a huge problem. [1]&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oversight.house.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;democrats.oversight.house.gov&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;White_Supremacist_Infiltration_of_Law_Enforcement.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;oversight.house.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;democrats.oversight.house....&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-college-certification-congress/card/rghQKMAF2ju2wkrUlcj1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>Let’s be blunt... because white people.&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.&lt;p&gt;The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.&lt;p&gt;What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leppr</author><text>&amp;quot;White&amp;quot; US activists have been labeled terrorists and dealt with swiftly for decades[1]. Shifting the focus to pure racism is a trendy oversimplification, but misses the more complex political aspects to this story.&lt;p&gt;If a random group of white Americans decided to invade the Capitol, do you have any doubt that they&amp;#x27;d have been stopped dead in their tracks before being able to put a foot inside?&lt;p&gt;As comforting a viewpoint as that may be, allies and enemies of the US state aren&amp;#x27;t decided based on their skin color.&lt;p&gt;[1] e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sovereign_citizen_movement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sovereign_citizen_movement&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>