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EXCLUSIVE: Local Police Departments Are Refusing To Help DC Secure Trump’s Inauguration
DailyCaller.com ^ | January 17, 2025 | Eireann Van Natta

Posted on 01/18/2025 7:19:47 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance

More than half a dozen local D.C.-area police departments will not be assisting Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) with security for the 2025 Presidential Inauguration, the Daily Caller has learned. The MPD has been lambasted by both progressives and conservatives for its methods of policing, and the department refused to answer several questions from the Caller.
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Anne Arundel County, Maryland State Police, and Prince George’s County all said they would be helping Capitol Police — but not MPD — with security. This suggests that these departments have a particular problem working with MPD, not with the inauguration itself. Only two departments of the nine who responded to the Caller stated they would be coordinating with MPD for the inauguration.
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The MPD is bringing in additional resources to allow their officers to serve in locations that require security, a source familiar told the Caller...He noted that the current deployment of officers for the inauguration is in line with past events. The Capitol Police will be taking a more central role with security at the inauguration, as the event has been moved to the Capitol Rotunda, allegedly due to weather concerns, according to a statement from Trump.
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The department has faced scrutiny from both sides of the aisle over its handling of past demonstrations....
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On Monday, US Secret Service (USSS) Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office, Matt McCool, said that this year’s inauguration will be a “higher-threat environment.” “We have a slightly more robust security plan,” he stated. “We’ve been planning for this event for 12 months.” About 25,000 military personnel and law enforcement will be assisting with security for the inauguration Monday…. < snip >

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: inauguration; insurrection; j6; tds
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The public use-of-force framework has four categories of threats: passive resister, active resister, threatening assailant, and active assailant. The only category where “deadly force” is allowed, according to the document, is when the assailant “poses an imminent danger...”

...About 25,000 military personnel and law enforcement will be assisting with security for the inauguration Monday, WTOP News reported....


1 posted on 01/18/2025 7:19:47 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance
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Inauguration Thread Keyword:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=inauguration


2 posted on 01/18/2025 7:21:08 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: All

No need to panic. Trump & Co. have got this. Oh, and God’s still sovereign. Heads on swivels and Pray!


3 posted on 01/18/2025 7:23:12 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Bagshaw who is some kind of commander of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a ruffian and no one wants to work with him.


4 posted on 01/18/2025 7:41:03 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Another reason why DC’s home rule powers need to be adjusted. Sooner rather than later.


5 posted on 01/18/2025 7:44:14 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: cuz1961

wrong thread


7 posted on 01/18/2025 7:49:48 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

That’s no squirrel, that is a stealth Spork Weasel ready to make trouble in D.C.


8 posted on 01/18/2025 8:00:58 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Considering the hazards in policing that are faced by law officers who could transgress the absolute “rights” of protesters to run amuck, vandalize, and cause extreme damage to person and property in this lefty democrat city, I do not blame them for avoiding DC.


9 posted on 01/18/2025 8:19:58 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR; Socon-Econ; yldstrk

The wretched woke Rules Of Engagement imposed on our law enforcement officers and our military have been all part of our planned demise.

We’re about to get our much-needed reset to a Constitutional Rule of Law.


10 posted on 01/18/2025 8:27:58 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Daily caller appears to put out a lot of fake or twisted news.


11 posted on 01/18/2025 8:36:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

My local news just showed a bunch of Cincinnati Police preparing to head to DC to help police the festivities. I’m sure other Cities are sending some Police as well.


12 posted on 01/18/2025 8:44:55 AM PST by chuck allen
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To: chuck allen

Vance is from Ohio so that makes sense.


13 posted on 01/18/2025 8:47:05 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
That’s no squirrel, that is a stealth Spork Weasel ready to make trouble in D.C.

You called?

14 posted on 01/18/2025 9:16:42 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

So their method of policing now is just don’t show up. That makes sense.


15 posted on 01/18/2025 9:20:32 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

MPD Chief (from the MPD site):

“ After a successful career in law enforcement with the US Park Police, Smith joined the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in May 2022 as the Chief Equity Officer, assigned to the Executive Office of the Chief of Police. She led the department’s efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), made an immediate impact at the MPD and ensured that DEI issues remained a priority in the department. She developed an organizational channel for department-wide accountability by providing strategic advice to the Chief of Police, executive leadership, and senior management officials within the department. In addition to her DEI focus, she supervised the Directorates for Employee Well-Being and Support Unit and Equal Employment Opportunity Office.”

She said this a few days ago:
“ This week, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith spoke about how her department is preparing for Monday.
“Violence, destruction and unlawful behavior will not be tolerated,” she said at a public safety hearing. “Offenders will face swift and decisive consequences.”

No one believes her, by the way.


16 posted on 01/18/2025 9:23:50 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Bikers will fill in any gaps, and where Junior Secret Service Agent badges so they don’t get accidentally shot?


17 posted on 01/18/2025 9:26:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

An armed society is a polite society.


18 posted on 01/18/2025 9:33:41 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

“We have a slightly more robust security plan,” he stated. “We’ve been planning for this event for 12 months.” About 25,000 military personnel and law enforcement will be assisting with security for the inauguration Monday...”

Slightly higher?

From yesterday’s “Gateway Pundit” article:

“Now, Biggs has issued an even graver warning: a series of coordinated, catastrophic events planned to coincide with Trump’s inauguration and targeting his iconic properties.

According to the video posted on YouTube by Biggs, these attacks are not isolated acts of terrorism but are instead state-sponsored efforts designed to dismantle symbols of Trump’s influence and leadership.

The pastor described seeing “massive dump trucks” armed with armor plating and packed with fertilizer-based explosives, echoing the devastating Oklahoma City bombing of the 1990s.

The attacks, Biggs warns, aim to cripple Trump’s iconic properties, such as Trump Tower and golf courses, and disrupt national symbols of power, including the Capitol.

He alleges that a network of operatives spread across ten major U.S. cities, with each city hosting 100 attackers—trained and funded by foreign governments, possibly Iran—has infiltrated the United States through underground tunnels along the southern border.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/pastor-who-precisely-prophesied-trump-getting-shot-ear/


19 posted on 01/18/2025 9:38:22 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I yearn for the good old days.

Sure there were a lot of corrupt police officers taking payoffs from organized crime, but they could be depended upon to step up and go to the front lines to protect and serve in public events like an inauguration.

Today, the corrupt police have sold out but not for money.

They have sold the country out best I can tell for some kind of Marxism that follows a globalist agenda.


20 posted on 01/18/2025 9:45:56 AM PST by Biblebelter
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