• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One thousand people where charged out of twenty-five thousand, that’s only 4% of the people.

    That means 96% were being peaceful and that’s damn near 100%

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      6 months ago

      Sorry… you think that the only people who were violent were the ones who got charged?

      That’s weird, because that’s not how it usually works.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      6 months ago

      sorry but that’s not a fair analysis of the data put forward by ACLED here. they are counting demonstrations not demonstrators. and they are most certainly not couning charges so no clue where you got that.

      here are some similar, though admittedly not directly parallel, statistics (published jan 2022):

      • 6.8% of pro-Trump demonstrations (112 of 1,646) between January 2020 and November 2021 were armed compared to 1.5% of all other demonstrations (501 of 33,298).
      • The percentage of armed pro-Trump demonstrations increased last year. In 2021, 8.8% of pro-Trump demonstrations were armed (32 of 364) compared to 6.2% in 2020 (80 of 1,282).