Posted on 07/30/2023 11:30:50 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
AUSTIN (The Texas Tribune) — In response to increasing threats against members of Congress, the U.S. Capitol Police plans to open regional field offices across the country, including in Texas.
Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger announced the plans at a joint oversight hearing of the Capitol Police Board, describing a 300% increase in threats to members of Congress over the past seven years. In addition to an office in Texas, the agency plans to open field offices in Milwaukee and Boston, Manger told the committee Wednesday. A Texas location has not yet been determined, a department spokesperson said.
The Capitol Police department, which is responsible for protecting Congress and its members, opened its first field offices in Florida and California after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. The offices have helped his officers respond to threats more quickly and efficiently, Manger said.
“Due to the increased threat environment, our protective responsibilities have increased, requiring additional protection details, increased coverage of CODELs [official travel by members of Congress] and field hearings, as well as other enhancements to our current protective details,” he said in his written testimony to the committee.
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Literally a Praetorian Guard.
This is such an obvious scam and a breach of the Constitution. Abbott should tell these clowns to pound sand.
And McCarthy is approving this.
will they have a license to kill “protesters”?
So Congress has it’s very own National Police Force, nice
The bigger problem is the threats from members of congress to the public.
McCarthy needs to shut this down - NOW!
Seems hard to believe, wouldn’t there be a lack of jurisdiction?
I wonder why they haven’t opened up an office in Kentucky. For example Rand Paul has been attacked.
How about Louisiana, the home of Steve Scalise who took a bullet from a Bernie Sanders supporter?
Stasi..
$$$$$$$
Doesn’t sound right...not even a little bit.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/01/15/five_facts_on_the_us_capitol_police_656544.html
when protecting a member of Congress, its jurisdiction expands to the entire U.S. and its territories.
So a representative of the people can use force anywhere in the world to protect themselves, but the people they work for may or may not have legal self defense.
Let’s see. In the civics lessons I learned and taught for over thirty years, it is the executive branch that enforces the laws, not the legislative branch. Realizing that the Constitution was written by and for slave owners and is therefore completely out of date today(/s) , where and when did Congress get the power to enforce the law?
more and more shock troops from the unelected ruling cabal. USA is in deep doodoo
It didn’t until Nancy Pelosi expanded their power after J6. She launched Capitol Police nationwide as a DNC Stasi.
Exactly. The legislative police...
McCarthy and Abbott better put a quick stop to this CCP style nonsense.
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