Why was there not even a single Capitol policeman with a bullhorn telling people to get off the balconies? No one would’ve entered the Capitol if the police had kept them away from the balconies in the first place. I don’t know if the Capitol police actually colluded with the people who planned to break into the Capitol but they certainly did not help the situation.
I’m wondering if they weren’t told ahead of time to ‘stand down’, like the police in Portland had been told to do?