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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Yeah, but there was one Q-Tard loon armed with a Viking hat wearing caveman fur pelts.
Those furries can rub against your skin like a bullet when wielded.
This is rubbish. President Swalwell said it was an armed insurrection. And he is never wrong.
An insurrection without guns, without a leader, without a spokesman, without hostages, without a manifesto, and without a list of demands. A bunch of idiots wandering around taking selfies. And they didn’t wreck nearly as much stuff as at 100 BLM riots last year.
Not to hear the idiots claims. Looked like that attack in Olympus has Fallen.
Yet the news media and Dem politicians make it sound as if it were the storming of the Bastille or The Storming of the Tuileries in 1792.
More like a field trip of tourists that got rowdy.
Yep. The whole thing with the NG, fences, concertina razor wire, people claiming their feared for their lives, etc etc, was little more than theater, propaganda and embellished bull s***.
Only one unarmed person was shot to death, and that was at the hands of THEIR hired guns.
Of course they were armed! I didn’t see tentacles!?
Well, duuuuh.
Well, howdy do, folks! What a surprise!
And whose van was that?
the guns are still out there. be afraid. be very afraid.
fetchy la boosh...
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Occam's Razor would indicate "dishonest" and "corrupt".
How can that be? Guess the bimbos were only reading talking points written out for them - - and the pretentious MSNBC 'men' were flat out lying.
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