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Former Capitol police chief shares thoughts on why officers appeared to let rioters in
NBC News ^ | 01/07/2011 | Minyvonne Burke

Posted on 01/07/2021 3:37:28 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said he wants to give police "the benefit of the doubt" and hopes they were attempting to de-escalate Wednesday's event when they appeared to let pro-Trump rioters inside the legislative building.

"Sometimes when you don't have enough personnel, you can't stand and fight a large crowd like that," he said on NBC's "Today" show Thursday, noting that there were not enough law enforcement personnel on scene.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitolpolice; capitolriot; capitolriotaccount; jan6; jointsession
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The Mayor of DC says she will now establish a perimeter around the capitol. I'm no expert, but I think you're supposed to do that BEFORE the march. Who taught this dunce how to be a mayor, Bill De Blasio
- Twitter acount of Mark Simone
https://twitter.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1346937342569771008
1 posted on 01/07/2021 3:37:28 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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THEY LITERALLY JUST LET THEM THROUGH
2 posted on 01/07/2021 3:42:41 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

They did not simply leave the barriers, they were waving people inside. Trust NBC to give us cutting edge truth, yea?


3 posted on 01/07/2021 3:43:12 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Kid Shelleen

it was deliberate

they were asked multiple times by federal authroities if they needed more law enforcement

they turned them all down

so they wanted this to occur


4 posted on 01/07/2021 3:47:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Viral video appears to show a US Capitol Police Officer waving protesters past barricade at complex Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1347320039490387968


5 posted on 01/07/2021 3:47:54 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Kid Shelleen

“they appeared to let pro-Trump rioters inside the legislative building.”

pro Trump rioters, no bias there /s


6 posted on 01/07/2021 3:49:44 PM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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D5-DBBD69-F15-A-4-A1-D-8470-36-C176611-D2-F

Now, come the Prosecutions!

7 posted on 01/07/2021 3:51:04 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Kid Shelleen
They thought Trumpers would not riot or cause damage,
But the Trump crowd was used as a Trojan horse by Antifa, BLM and other Marxist provocateurs.

8 posted on 01/07/2021 3:53:57 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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What did he say about unarmed Air Force Vet being shot dead?


9 posted on 01/07/2021 3:55:17 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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SO no doors to lock?

No armed police blocking the doors with guns drawn?

I doubt those few dozen creepy antifa-looking ones that got in (climbed the wall/portico/whatever) didn’t look like they would face down guns to push through.

The 250000 Protesters (outside) was there ANY sign they were armed ?

There were heavily armed/armored police out side with teh milling quarter million REAL Trump Supporters.

A MAJOR FusterCluck - if not a dem planned thing to discredit that 250000 outside.


Media liars yesterday label it ‘Insurrection’ (but called all the blm/antifa arson looting rioting ‘protesting’)

First “INSURRECTION” in history where the unarmed ‘mob’ of 250000 stayed for a few hours standing around and then went home.

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TRUTH and these demlefy scoundrels DOES NOT INTERSECT.

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10 posted on 01/07/2021 3:56:15 PM PST by elbook
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To: AnthonySoprano

Now, come the Prosecutions!

Can’t you even spell persecution ?


11 posted on 01/07/2021 3:56:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I saw video of the police actively fighting with the protesters, the exact opposite of what many are saying. If the police “let” the protesters in, it was not out of kindness or part of a conspiracy to invite the occupation, but that they were outnumbered and overwhelmed, and their only alternatives would be to fill the area with so much tear gas that they themselves would also be disabled, or start shooting.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 4:03:51 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kid Shelleen

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409999-scores-of-kavanaugh-protesters-arrested-after-descending-on-senate-building


13 posted on 01/07/2021 4:04:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Charge those officials waving them in.


14 posted on 01/07/2021 4:05:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: elbook

My local newspaper also used the expression “mob” (specifically, “pro-Trump mob”) in it’s giant headline. I doubt they’ve used the word “mob” to describe a left-wing protest in the last 20 years.


15 posted on 01/07/2021 4:07:08 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Capitol Police was taking SELFIES with the protestors that came inside..this was all a set up there was NO fear from those officers they were not afraid of these protestors


16 posted on 01/07/2021 4:09:46 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Secret Agent Man

> they were asked multiple times by federal authorities if they needed more law enforcement

IMHO they were deluded by their own defund the police fantasies. They’re used to Trump supporters being noisy but peaceful. They were more worried about avoiding police confrontations with Antifa and BLM counter-protesters.

All these factors contributed to the weak police presence.

It also appears that the Capitol has surprisingly weak physical barriers.


17 posted on 01/07/2021 4:11:10 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Kid Shelleen

Letting them in was all part of the plan (by Obama?). It certainly appears to be working.


18 posted on 01/07/2021 4:14:47 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: tennmountainman

What did he say about unarmed Air Force Vet being shot dead?

++++++++

(Crickets)


19 posted on 01/07/2021 4:16:56 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: elbook

Why was the “policeman” firing the gun dressed in a suit? Was he a plant, put there to do just what he did? That would discredit the protest very quickly. I think it was planned.


20 posted on 01/07/2021 4:24:17 PM PST by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine I don’t think we need one,)
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