The US Capitol protest certainly wasn't any worse than the "mostly peaceful" demonstrations we've seen in several US cities this past year, and was on par with recent political protests in France, Hong Kong, Belarus, Serbia, and Venezuela. Occupying government buildings is a standard political tactic, going back to storming the Bastille. It is of course tragic that an unarmed woman was shot, and that she's now being slandered as a "domestic terrorist."
The real danger now is that the government and the media will use this incident to justify even further censorship. Alas, they already are:
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