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The Festival of Fetch: The Encouraging Fizzle of The “Justice For J6” Rally
It was inevitable that attendance-wise the Justice for J6 rally was going to be more bomb scare than breaking news. And that is a good thing.
Frankly, I find it encouraging that almost nobody showed up to participate in the “Justice For J6” Rally, and unseemly how much media showed up to cover it. It was apparent for weeks that the rally was not going to be all it was cracked up to be, but that didn’t stop some folks in media and social media from trying to make fetch happen on this day anyway.
From our friend Eric Garcia at The Independent:
At the opening of the Justice for J6 Rally, organiser Matt Braynard was quick to say that people who partook in violence against police officers during the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol should be held accountable.
But moments later, he invoked the name of Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot and killed while trying to breach the House and who threatened the lives…
