Posted on 01/07/2021 11:28:37 AM PST by USA Conservative
Observers of the chaotic scene at the US Capitol on Wednesday are asking questions about law enforcement management of the protest, after video emerged revealing that police had moved at least one fence barrier containing the protestors.
“The breach today at the US Capitol raises grave security concerns,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California said in a statement.
“I intend to have the Committee on House Administration work with the bipartisan House and Senate leadership to address these concerns and review the response in the coming days,” she said.
In one video, police are seen stepping out of the way when a barricade is moved outside the US Capitol building and a crowd of supporters of President Trump flow through.
The clip, posted on Twitter, shows a handful of Capitol Police officers possibly even moving the metal barricade themselves.
One man was seen inside the barricade then urges the crowd, carrying Trump and US flags, forward, the video shows.
Video below:
(video uploaded on the site)
It’s unclear if the barriers that were moved by police cordoned off a restricted area of the Capitol grounds themselves, which was intended to be inaccessible to protestors.
Four people died as protestor occupied the U.S. Capitol.
Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.”
Police said both law enforcement and supporters of President Donald Trump deployed chemical irritants during the hours-long occupation of the Capitol building before it was cleared Wednesday evening by law enforcement.
The woman was shot earlier Wednesday as thousands tried to break through a barricaded door in the Capitol where police were armed on the other side. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and later died.
D.C. police officials also say two pipe bombs were recovered, one outside the Democratic National Committee and one outside the Republican National Committee.
Police found a cooler from a vehicle that had a long gun and Molotov cocktail on Capitol grounds.
Timothy Dimoff, a former SWAT force member who now runs a security company, said police were simply unprepared.
“They knew this group was coming, they knew it was going to be enormous but they didn’t do any preparation to control the crowd such as fencing, barricades, and cement structures to prevent traffic and people flow,” Dimoff told Bloomberg News.
The protest came as Congress was preparing to vote to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump continues to contest.
The breach forced a halt to the proceedings and forced lawmakers to flee to safety.
A. They were able to pin “VIOLENT HATERS” onto Trump supporters once and for all.
B. THEY (politicians) knew they were never in danger; funny how THEY have secret “safe” places to go...
C. They have ALREADY provided MILLIONS of our tax dollars toward “cleaning and renovating” those buildings in that so-called “coronavirus aid” bill, remember?
In his official statement. Called protestors terrorists.
If I have a sketchy neighbor who I know is a scum who does B&E....
And I take out a HUGE insurance policy on my house...
Then one day in passing said neighbor, I mention all of the loot I own and... oh, I’m going to be gone all day Wednesday...
I wait til Wednesday, let him do his thing, collect on my insurance policy and then call the cops on him and he goes to prison..
Same principle here folks.
“Even on the floor of the Senate many of them commented that they were relieved that nobody was hurt.”
THEY are their whole world. None of THEM were hurt. To them, that meant - NOBODY was hurt.
“Set up to disrupt exposing proof of the steal.“
Anybody else notice that they aren’t talking about THAT anymore?...
Yet ANOTHER reason that our politicians wanted yesterday to happen as it did..
so obvious
the left has played this perfectly
using our virtues, humility, patriotism, and goodness against us every step of the way
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