A report by the US Capitol Police watchdog took aim at law enforcement failures prior to the deadly Capitol insurrection such as expired ammunition and ineffective shields, according to CNN on Thursday.
It is almost like they werenât particularly interested in protecting the Capitol, or at least the Democrats.
I blame this on Hillary and Obama without a doubt. Cruz and Hawley most likely agree and will demand an investigation into the downright outrageous failure of both the Obama and Clinton administrations.
âThe Department of Homeland Security notified the Department of a blog referencing tunnels on U.S. Capitol grounds used by Members of Congress and research of the website identified four âthreads/blog topics containing comments of concern,'â the summary states, according to CNN. âThe report identifies the website as https://thedonald.win and includes several pages of comments posted to the website.â
The Capitol Police inspector general further highlighted the indifference by Capitol Police leadership by noting the departmentâs failure to maintain an accurate roster of officers assigned to the Civil Disturbance Unit. The watchdog also cited the leadershipâs awareness as far back as July 2020 of the departmentâs need for significant changes, yet failing to take action to do so.
This looks an awful lot like Capitol Police leadership was looking the other way.
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Or was being told toâŚ
I think Ron Johnson gave the game away already: they werenât worried because it was a bunch of white people.
s I mean, we all know white people have never carried out any atrocities. /s
Some previously unrolled heads now need to roll. Some of the persons belonging to said heads need to be specifically investigated for ties to white supremacist groups, conspiracy theories about Trump really won and those associated groups, and messages from Trump buddies.
Reporters have mentioned that the CP are known for belligerent treatment of protesters and capital newbies. Perhaps they were so used to being the bully that they got arrogant.
The previous leadership seems also to have leaned hard into the petulant logic of âyou said we went overboard for BLM. Fine. We wont have the riot squad out then. Itâs all your faultâ.
Which served the inciter-in-chief well, but more generally we have seen that kind of refusal in a number of big-city police departments facing widespread protests of their conduct
But how much interaction did the Capitol police have with the BLM protesters? I thought that was Metro DC police and NG?
Fair point. I conflated a few things- the previous CP leadership who didnât respond to the Jan 6 threat for reasons we are all keen to learn about and the other senior leaders of the nationâs security apparatus, who did use the over-response to this summers protest to justify not responding to the risk of violence on Jan 6
I believe the former seargent at arms (forget which one) cited the âopticsâ of a NG presence in the capital as grounds to turn down a request and rules about the deployment of the NG were justified by the Army based on the backlash to this summer protests.
I think you all are overthinking things. Trumpâs people weâre coming and one wanted to author a report saying they were potential threats.
Another example of infrastructure that was neglected.
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I think Iâm remembering correctly that itâs been stated that the Capitol PD hasnât been staffed at full force for awhile. Now Iâm not sure if that was a recent thing, or itâs been going on for more than the last administration. I think this was one of the things retired Lt Gen Honore stated in his report.
Not assigning blame here, but procedurally the IG has to follow up on their recommendations, or there is little point in their investigations.
Some of the Cops seemed to welcome in the protestors while others were battling to protect the property and people there.
In theory, the Capital police are controlled by congress, via each chamberâs sargents at arms, and are completely free of executive branch influence.
We seem to be learning that that wasnât entirely the case. Why a congressional service feared trumpian wrath might be a very interesting question
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What about Carter? Gave the Panama Canal away!!!