{"id":6340,"date":"2021-01-08T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=147881"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:44:28","slug":"dorothee-benz-on-january-6-insurrection-mara-verheyden-hilliard-on-police-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/08\/dorothee-benz-on-january-6-insurrection-mara-verheyden-hilliard-on-police-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Police Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Military Times<\/strong>\u2018 photo<\/a> of a gallows erected on Capitol Hill by pro-Trump militants. (photo: Sarah Sicard)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This week on CounterSpin<\/strong>: As we recorded on January 7, the Washington Post<\/strong> was calling<\/a> for Donald Trump\u2019s removal from office. To which one might respond: Ya think? Media who egged on Trump\u2019s candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party\u2019s every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would. Headlines suggesting the insurrection at the Capitol was the Trump era\u2019s \u201clast gasp\u201d suggest a continued refusal to acknowledge the multiple factors that drove and abetted it, that go well beyond Trump and are going nowhere with Trump\u2019s deposal, today or in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

Some say the deferential police treatment of rampaging white nationalists who brought their own gallows, as opposed to the abuse that routinely meets nonviolent Black and brown protestors, betrays a double standard; our guest says no, it reflects the single standard of white supremacy. We talk about coverage of the January 6 attack on the Capitol with political scientist Dorothee Benz.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/strong> image<\/a> of police barricades at the Capitol. assaulting the Capitol.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And speaking of law enforcement: We\u2019ll also hear briefly from activist\/attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund<\/a>. They\u2019re demanding an investigation of federal and local police planning and response to yesterday\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at media coverage of Julian Assange\u2019s extradition denial and Trump\u2019s Blackwater pardons.<\/p>\n

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