If you gaze around....almost no one has a timeline of the events for that afternoon.
If you try to build your own timeline? It comes out to about 2.5 hours (roughly).....about as long as a double-overtime soccer game, with the shoot-off at the end.
If you bring up this with Africans or South Americans.....they kinda start laughing because their typical insurrection usually turns into rebellions (meaning days and weeks....not minutes and hours).
An African will use the word 'rebel', 'uprising', and 'revolt'.
If you start to engage on the topic....they will go down the list. Typically, some village gets shot up.....some police get killed, and food shortage/electrical outages become the norm for a couple of weeks.
'Clashes'? These usually end up with some rebel group who does a quick attack....maybe forty dead, and the government promises some quick reaction.....which turns into three days waiting for the government force to arrive. You tend to notice that these are mostly 16 to 20 year old guys....who got their uniform yesterday, and was issued some gun with one clip (five rounds) and a pair of tennis shoes (usually stolen).
'Revolutions'? These come and go....usually where some junta-government is forced into a fight, and some communist/non-communist group arrive to declare itself supporting the general public. Most Africans will claim neither group is openly something you'd want to run your daily life.
TV-chatter importing during a typical insurrection? Usually, most networks get turned off, and you end up with one single government-run network. Luckily for us from the 6 Jan.....everything ran correctly....even the METRO subway system in DC, and the regional airport. In fact, other than the Congressional 'chow' facility and the gift shop were probably the only things that shutdown around the capital building.
My view now? Well...just about anything that the BLM riot business triggered in 2019? I look back and see them as insurrections.
It just seems to me that we are opening up a new period.....for 'real' insurrections, and it won't be pleasant.
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