From the GAO report:

   Over the course of about 7 hours, more than 2,000 protesters entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, disrupting the peaceful transfer of power and threatening the safety of the Vice President and

members of Congress.

  The attack resulted in assaults on at least 174 police officers, including 114 Capitol Police and 60 D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers.

  These events led to at least seven deaths and caused about $2.7 billion in estimated costs.

The footnote on the cost estimate reads:

  This amount reflects, among other things, damage to the Capitol building and grounds, estimated costs borne by the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and estimated costs to address security needs and investigations as described in budget and funding requests, appropriations, agency estimates, and other publicly available information.

~ https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23106625.pdf

▲ throwacct 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> These events led to at least seven deaths

Context is everything:

$2.7 billion, where a big part went to:

U.S. Capitol Police (USCP)

Costs: Over $620 million (as reported by GAO).

- Overtime pay for officers during and after the attack. - Mental health services and trauma support for affected personnel. - Recruitment and training of new officers to address staffing shortages. - Enhanced security infrastructure (e.g., fencing, surveillance, communication systems).

Judicial and Prosecution Costs

- Total DOJ Expenditures: Estimated at $100–150 million. - Salaries and overtime for prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff. - Court operations, including hearings, trials, and detention. - Legal representation for defendants unable to afford counsel.

And if you keep digging, the amount of money spent was basically on human labor and overtime pay.

Now, tell me again how this compares to $2 billion in actual damages to businesses (arson, looting, and vandalism, etc.), with this event being considered the costliest insured civil disorder event in U.S. history?

	▲	Smeevy 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I thought it was 1-2 billion dollars.... Are we just sticking with 2 billion now? Do I hear 3? Anybody?
	▲	defrost 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm unable to tell you again given I've not yet made any comparison between the two, merely quoted the relevant passages from the GAO report. I do note that the damages number you cite has risen from between 1 & 2 to definitely 2 and these damages are associated with a multitude of legitimate peaceful protests that became a magnet for others to stir trouble, loot and riot on a pretext, start gunfights, etc. It's a clear false equivalence to compare the single Jan 6th event of faction aligned protesters who invaded and damaged a building disrupting a democratic transition to a multitude of other events and locations across a lengthier time frame that involved many factions across the political spectrum including apolitical criminals of opportunity.