Posted on 03/04/2021 9:37:37 AM PST by rktman
A top FBI counterterrorism official testified on Wednesday that no firearms were recovered during arrests of rioters who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“How many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during that day?” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson asked Jill Sanborn, the FBI official, during a Senate Homeland Security hearing.
“To my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at the scene at this point,” replied Sanborn, who serves as FBI assistant director for counterterrorism.
“I don’t want to speak on behalf of Metro and Capitol police, but, to my knowledge, none,” she added.
Sanborn also said that no shots were fired at the Capitol, save for the one fired by a police officer that killed Ashli Babbit, an Air Force veteran from California.
“I believe that the only shots that were fired were the ones that resulted in the death of the lady,” Sanborn testified, referring to Babbit.
Babbit was shot while attempting to enter a restricted area of the Capitol.
Johnson noted that more than 300 people have been charged in connection with the riots, 40 of which have been charged with assault.
Sanborn said that nobody at the Capitol has faced weapons charges, though a firearm was recovered from a van containing Molotov cocktails that was found near the Capitol.
Though no firearms were recovered, dozens of police officers were injured during the Capitol attack. Videos posted online show rioters using a variety of other weapons during confrontations with police officers.
One Capitol police officer, Brian Sicknick, died during the melee, though the cause of death has not been officially released.
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oh noes.
how in the hell do you have an insurrection without any firearms?!
The left will spin this to ordinary items were the weapons. Antifa is known for using flag poles as weapons and it could be said the helmet was used as a weapon. Stoopid Murahcans are conditioned to think if someone is armed then they have a gun.
Somebody in the FBI really dropped the ball here. I would have guessed they would have planted at least a couple of machine guns. And maybe even a bazooka.
But maybe they’ll “find” those weapons later.
I listened to Wray testify and I SWEAR! I wanted to puke at his blatant lies.
No antifa or BLM involvement? Is he stupid? There are, at least, 3 pics of these jerks in the building and CNN INTERVIEWED one of them.
Exactly.
And the Air Force vet was shot for.....trespassing???
Well, the Nancy and Schumer and democrats were still correct.
It was an armed insurrection.
IOW, the protesters had arms.
They didn't bring any guns and nobody has shown me where any of them even hurt anyone. They certainly didn't kill anyone - as per the false accusation.
Some ‘insurrection’.
But it was a “siege”.
They must have had cannons and rockets and bombers!
Unless that “siege” talk was all BS.
I think that's a great tribute to President Trump's followers...with of course...the few nut cases doing their thing.
Couldn't even say her f**king name! Yeah, she was only an Air Force veteran murdered for sticking her little head through a window, after an ANTIFA worm broke the glass. Scumbag jackbooted thug.
Obviously the crazed Nazi insurrectionist rioters intended to murder the entire Congress with their teeth. Savages. < /WaPo >
Pretty poor planning for an “insurrection”.
Were any Antifa or other anti-Trumpers demonstrating anywhere near there? I’ve never heard of a Trump gathering with no opposition showing up at all.
Maybe they were otherwise occupied that fateful day.
So, they didn’t confiscate the gun of that murderous Capitol Cop?
The insurrectionists have left Washington, D.C.!
I saw them at a college game!
They were running around in uniforms with their AR15 flags!
The crowd was screaming!
Oh
Wait
They were just cheerleaders.
sticks, bottles and some mean words,, yep, they were armed to the teeths ..
Officer Sicknick DID NOT DIE DURING THE MELEE!!!
He was TEXTING FROM HOME LATER THAT EVENING!!!!
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