Posted on 02/18/2021 9:06:29 AM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Capitol Police officials told congressional leaders the razor-wire topped fencing around the Capitol should remain in place for several more months as law enforcement continues to track threats against lawmakers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The police officials suggested that the fence remain in place until September, in part because investigators are tracking continuing threats against lawmakers and the Capitol complex, the person said. The threats range in specificity and credibility, but they include online chatter about extremist groups potentially returning to Washington and to the Capitol in the coming weeks, the person told AP.
The police officials said the fence is needed as a physical barrier to prevent a potential repeat of the Jan. 6 insurrection when thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win, the person said. Five people, including a Capitol police officer, died as a result of the melee.
The person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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The fence and guards are needed because those in power know what their policies will do and how EVERYONE is likely to be pissed.
Capital police?
That’s a police force LARGER than Atlanta’s police force - that only has ONE JOB. To protect Congress. And who controls that police force? Yep. Congress.
Little details left out.
Dictators need to protect themselves from the peeons.
Mask are never going away.
The Capitol Police want to have that fence surrounding the Capitol for another few months.I don’t think so. I think they’re getting their talking points from Pelosi and McConnell.
There is NO reason to have that fence surrounding the Capitol Building unless the Rats are planning to do something that they know may piss off the American People so much that the People have No choice except to throw those bums out of the Capitol Building.
The Capitol Building is the property of the American People.Not a bunch of criminal politicians.
Jack should have asked the soldiers that approached him about their mission, ROI. Someone should have to answer why the fences and the soldiers are there and what’s the threat. Americans deserve answers.
Got asked for Identification while walking by the Capitol Building Fence?
I hope he didn’t show it.He’s walking on Public Property where he had a right to be.
I wouldn’t give them the time of day never mind my personal Info.
Need 10,000 more NG troops there with orders to shoot anything that tries to get out or in.
I hope the tourists boycott DC this summer.
Just don’t go.
Let Muriel Bowser feel the economic effects.
BULLSHIT
CHIEF WAS ORDERED BY PELOSI TO PUT THAT OUT AS STATEMENT FROM THE POLICE, WHEN WE KNOW IT IS ALL PELOSI’S DOING.
Gee, they could use some of that fencing around the Portland Federal Building for the past eight months.
They know how to ruin cities and tourist locations. What is the mission? Must be to hurt D.C.
They nee a solid fence. Really need to keep the sewerage of that house from leaking into the street.
Where is Mitch McConnell hiding. He does not fight back but rather go along to be accepted.
The only reason the Dems are creating this phony atmosphere of being under siege is to excuse emergency measures they're contemplating but couldn't get away with otherwise. The notion of mobs of white supremacist extremists panting to tear the place up is so ridiculous the media are even failing to sell it. What comes next? Declaring political opponents to be members of terrorist organizations comes next, and using the emergency powers of government to suppress, imprison, or eliminate them. Every two-bit dictatorship that's ever been spawned does this and we've managed to spawn one.
Next step: Enemy of the State..........................
By law the Speaker of the House is responsible for Capital security. So you are correct. Also note the Capital “riot” was all her responsibility too. She was in on this ambush which resulted in a murder of an unarmed civilian. The most that could be leveled against most of them is trespassing yet some are still in jail rotting away with no bail. For trespassing!
Why stop at razor wire? I say we add some guard towers with machines guns, and maybe a nice “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign over the gate.
Are the “lawmakers” intending to stay inside the barbed wire and fences through March? I think these UniParty creeps should be more worried about their safety when back in the districts facing the voters who elected them.
There’s some crazy rumor they have started that there is going to be some kind of disturbance on March 3rd, the old transition day for new Administrations. They created it so they’ll have an excuse for more draconian laws............................
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