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Defund the Capitol Police
American Greatness ^ | 21 Apr, 2022 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

While purporting to defend “Congress, the U.S. Capitol, and our democracy,” Capitol police act as a narrative enforcer for Democrats.

The new intelligence chief of the U.S. Capitol Police is off to a rough start.

Ravi Satkalmi, a former high-ranking NYPD official, took over the Capitol Police’s expanding intelligence unit this month. But his agency suffered a major humiliation Wednesday night after it forced the evacuation of the Capitol and surrounding buildings after spotting “an aircraft that poses a probable threat.” Staff scrambled to exit the buildings in a panic, and news outlets interrupted coverage with “breaking news” bulletins about the suspicious aircraft.

Roughly 15 minutes later, Capitol police backtracked and announced there was no threat; the aircraft, it turned out, was a U.S. Army plane preparing to perform a parachute stunt at the Washington Nationals baseball game. After issuing an “all clear” notice, a USCP senior security official told Fox News, “This is not supposed to happen. It looks bad.”

While the gaffe was heavily mocked on social media, the Capitol Police’s most ardent defender came to the rescue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) quickly released a statement commending Capitol Police’s “heroism” and “exemplary service.”

Blaming the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly failing to notify Capitol Police about the event, Pelosi promised to investigate what happened. “The unnecessary panic caused by this apparent negligence [by the FAA] was particularly harmful for Members, staff, and institutional workers still grappling with the trauma of the attack on their workplace on January 6th,” she said in a written statement.

Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues—who in 2020 readily took a knee in the Capitol building to honor George Floyd—have found the one police department they not only routinely describe as “heroic” but deserving of billions of new dollars courtesy of American taxpayers:

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Accomplices in a hoax stunt that resulted in death.


2 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

They are scared to death of the rest of the country.


3 posted on 04/22/2022 4:41:41 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if there is any agency of the federal government that is not corrupt to the core.
God knows, the anti-federalists have been proven correct, oh so many times.


4 posted on 04/22/2022 4:47:48 AM PDT by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: tom paine 2

Wonder why? Something they did?


5 posted on 04/22/2022 5:17:02 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

The Capitol Police are the only law enforcement agency with virtually no oversight, controlled by the party in power, and not subject to FOIA requests.


6 posted on 04/22/2022 5:57:14 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Defund as disband…rat SS…


7 posted on 04/22/2022 6:40:32 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: MtnClimber

The Capistol Poleese. A bunch of cop wannabes that couldn’t land a gig playing cops on TV.


8 posted on 04/22/2022 7:08:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I may or may not have been near the Capitol on January 6 and watched the hapless Capitol police tossing flash bangs and teargas into the peaceful crowd. Idiots repeatedly threw teargas into the wind.

Color me unimpressed.


9 posted on 04/22/2022 10:44:20 AM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t just want them defunded. I want them charged with entrapment, collusion and for at least ONE of them MURDER....that’s what I want..


10 posted on 04/22/2022 10:45:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I don’t just want them defunded. I want them charged with entrapment, collusion and for at least ONE of them MURDER....that’s what I want..

ME TOO!


11 posted on 04/22/2022 11:18:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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