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Trumpists will keep on saying "but she was just protesting!". That is why, and that is what I've seen on Twitter.
Maybe I should answer the MAGAts with the actions of the other rioters: they, too, were trying to kill the senators and vandalise the Capitol. The MAGAts at the riot also threatened to hang Mike Pence. Babbitt also did the same thing, so the cops had to stop her and them.
As for the "kill the senators" motive, I based it from this image: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/23841589_web1_Tsr_Capitol-standoff.jpg
The senators were trying to defend themselves.
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> Video footage of the shooting shows dozens of rioters on one side of a glass door, having already breached the Capitol building and trying to force their way through into the debating chamber.
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> The agitated rioters chant “break it down, we don’t want to hurt you”.[/bq]