Here is some related information that might be of interest to you.
Judicial Watch has acquired dozens of Jan 6 documents from the Washington D.C. Police Department. By law, the D.C. police must respond to FOIA requests, unlike the U.S. Congress.
Judicial Watch has been focused on the killing of Ashli Babbitt.
The man who shot Babbitt was a Capitol Police Lieutenant and the senior shift officer.
Per the D.C. Police, the Lieutenant stated that the number of Capitol Police present was just half the number usually on duty for a joint session of Congress.
I looked for the link at Judicial Watch, but cannot find it.
The information was published some time in June.
Re: “Per the D.C. Police, the Lieutenant stated that the number of Capitol Police present was just half the number usually on duty for a joint session of Congress. I looked for the link at Judicial Watch, but cannot find it.”
Things that make you go “hmm.”. I could not find the link either, but this Forbes article is quite damning:
“Despite employing 1,879 sworn officers as of September 2020, a congressional inquiry forced USCP to admit that on January 6th, only 195 officers were deployed to interior or exterior posts at the U.S. Capitol and 276 more were assigned to the Department’s seven civil disturbance unit platoons.”
More at link (it only gets worse):
I know this will not be a popular opinion on FR, but prior to Jan 6, I thought the rally was a bad idea. Trump was used to holding rallies where crowds could be vetted before entry, and both inner and outer perimeter security were robust. He was accustomed to having control over security and crowd management.
Not so for this Jan 6 rally where control was in the hands of his enemies. Opportunity for bad actors to infiltrate was wide open. Sorry, but it seemed to me at the time poor judgment on his part, and still does. Whether it was Fatal Error is debatable.
Re Ashli Babbit:
There was a very loud and persistent bunch on FR who insisted she was not dead at all. She was a “crisis actor”, the “blood was fake” and the EMT crew were “crisis actors” as well. And, oh yeah, the window she was climbing through was a movie set type window that conspirators had installed the night before. And on and on, each assertion more bizarre than the last.
They refused to believe she was dead even after her family confirmed her death. Pictures of her memorial service were not sufficient proof for them. They were hostile and quite nasty to any who tried to reason with them. I don’t know whether they ever came to their senses, but there was no convincing them she was really, truly, most sincerely dead back then.