So you are talking about Sicknick. I'd like to see your evidence that he was "beat over the head with a fire extinguisher".
I don't think that Sicknick was hit on the head with a fire extinguisher. The police only said that he was injured, and someone claimed it was a fire extinguisher that was repeated in several media outlets at the time. However, there were several other officers who were hit on the head with a fire extinguisher during the riots. Robert Palmer and Robert Sanford were both convicted of separate incidents of throwing a fire extinguisher at policeman's heads. Here's video of one of the incidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip2z2w8BrQ
So I think Mistwell is incorrect specifically regarding Sicknick, but there were multiple officers hit on the head with a fire extinguisher by rioters, so this doesn't show the rioters as peaceful. Posters have claimed that the rioters were only guilty of trespass and vandalism at most, and that they didn't hurt anyone - which is demonstrably false. I don't think they murdered anyone, but they certainly hurt people.
I agree that people got hurt, but Mistwell explicitly and repeatedly claimed that "an officer" was beat (hit repeatedly) over the head with a fire extinguisher. A claim made popular by the media at the time, that was and has been repeated by gullible people who have a rhetorical interest in making the Jan 6 riots sound as terrible as they can, at the expense of accuracy and truth.
While we can disagree about WHICH officer was hit over the head with a fire extinguisher and how many times, it's fact that an officer was in fact hit in the head by at least one fire extinguisher, and that a second officer was in fact hit by a second fire extinguisher. It's a claim "made popular" because it's TRUE and substantiated by video evidence, and that evidence is dramatic and therefore something the news would cover.
The only gullible people involved with that conversation are those in denial over the facts that did happen and who either refuse to examine the evidence for themselves or who engage in torturous logic to try and escape cognitive dissonance over the fact that did happen.
There is video evidence of at least two fire extinguishers being thrown and hitting police. One definitely hit a police officer in the head, and the other was thrown down from a balcony onto police. The first was thrown by Robert Sanford, who has been arrested and is awaiting trial. The later was done by Robert Palmer who was convicted to a 63 month sentence.
Devlyn Thompson was convicted of assaulting a police officer with a metal baton, sentenced to 46 months in prison.
Lonnie Leroy Coffman was convicted for 46 months in prison for possession of unregistered weapons. In the truck he brought to the capital on Jan 6 were molotov cocktails, a 9mm handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage and gas-filled Mason jars used to make napalm.
Nicholas Languerand was sentenced to 44 months in prison for assault on police officers. He had tried to spear officers, and at the time texted “Violence isn’t always the answer but in the face of tyranny violence may be the only answer,” and “Next time we come back with rifles.”
There are a lot more still waiting on trial. But don't fucking tell me this was all just peaceful trespassers who were invited in and wandered the halls.
Again, IF ANTIFA DID ANY OF THESE THINGS NONE OF YOU GUYS WOULD BE DISMISSING IT LIKE YOU'VE TRIED TO DISMISS WHAT HAPPENED ON JAN 6. My point remains valid - extremists regardless of political affiliation can and have been violent assholes.