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‘Badly understaffed’ Park Police assaulted by ‘mob of thousands,’ pelted with poop at pro-Hamas riot in DC: union chief
NY Post ^ | 07/25/2024 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 07/26/2024 1:41:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

It was a s–tshow.

US Park Police were “alone” and “understaffed” while being “assaulted by a mob of thousands” of pro-Hamas rioters in Washington, DC, on Wednesday — some of whom even pelted officers with poop, according to the force’s union chief.

Park Police Fraternal Order of Police chairman Kenneth Spencer told The Post in an interview a day after the unhinged riot that just 29 of his officers had faced down the terrorist-sympathizing mob outside Union Station — which is just blocks from the Capitol.

“We were primarily alone,” said Spencer, a 15-year veteran who revealed that years of “empty promises” to beef up the agency’s shoestring budget have gone unfulfilled by Congress and the Interior Department, which primarily deals with the nation’s rural national parks rather than civil unrest in big cities.

“Especially in the DC area, everybody’s so understaffed just like we are,” he explained. “We have a huge mission. We’re the agency that protects First Amendment rights when people come to visit DC.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; assaulted; bidenjunta; dc; districtofcolumbia; domesticenemies; gaza; hamas; insurrection; israel; parkpolice; police; prohamas; prohamasagitators; riotersnotprotesters; soshootthem; waronterror
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To: rktman

Yeah, thinking the same thing.

They had enough LE for the insurrection that almost toppled democracy and the government. This should have been a cake walk, seeing as these “protestors” were all peaceful Jew hating leftists.


41 posted on 07/26/2024 3:18:45 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: grobdriver

“I don’t guess the FIB will be examining cell phone tracks on this...”

What? You don’t think they tracked all those people across the country, are knocking on doors, and arresting people as we type? I’m sure they are. (jk)


42 posted on 07/26/2024 3:32:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Rdct29

If the Park Police want us to stand up for them they need to stand up for the J6 political prisoners.


43 posted on 07/26/2024 3:39:26 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Did the park police have anything to do with the harassment and arrests (and continuing imprisonment) of Jan 6th? If so...F them.


44 posted on 07/26/2024 3:41:53 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would like to know if these rioters had a permit to assemble on any public property (or private—not sure where they were). The organizers of J6 at the Capitol had permits which are required. Congress/Mayor, etc. knew at least a week in advance these people were goign to assemble at a “First Amendment Event”.


45 posted on 07/26/2024 3:43:54 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: hal ogen

“Did the park police have anything to do with the harassment and arrests (and continuing imprisonment) of Jan 6th? If so...F them.”

It was them.


46 posted on 07/26/2024 3:44:03 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: hal ogen

Not sure if Park Police has jurisdiction over the Capitol grounds. I believe that is the jurisdiction of Capitol Police and possibly also DC Metro police.


47 posted on 07/26/2024 3:45:33 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden armed the Taliban better than the Park Police.


48 posted on 07/26/2024 3:51:19 PM PDT by donozark (Presbyterians wear elbow patches and drive on recapped tires.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Monkeys throwing poo? Who woulda thunk it?


49 posted on 07/26/2024 4:04:24 PM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: null and void

It is past time to move Departments out of Washington D.C. Anyone who has ever lived there or spent time there knows that it is time wasted to try to do anything to benefit that Hellhole.


50 posted on 07/26/2024 4:08:41 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, that’s too bad.


51 posted on 07/26/2024 4:34:51 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: vivenne

The Park Police does have jurisdiction over the Capitol grounds and they were heavily involved in J6.

I am hesitant to give links because they seem to be left wing propaganda on J6.

Here is a neutral one on the duties of the Park Police:

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/jurisdiction-and-authority.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Park_Police

“In 1925, Congress placed the Park Police in the newly created Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital.”


52 posted on 07/26/2024 4:42:25 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Bonemaker

Anarcho-tyranny, violent attacks by left on police; charges dismissed, protestors who questioned election results and may have non-violently trespassed; rotting in prison.


53 posted on 07/26/2024 5:34:30 PM PDT by ozarker
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To: 5Madman2

I prefer flamethrowers.


54 posted on 07/26/2024 6:02:26 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Demonrats aren’t Americans. )
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To: 5Madman2

What are they going to do in Chicago during the DNC Convention?


55 posted on 07/26/2024 6:30:34 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: cgbg

Just can’t imagine HOW many have been arrested. Wonder if we will get any mug shots of people put in prison for 3 years..like the J6 uprising.


56 posted on 07/26/2024 6:39:38 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: cgbg

That is probably true. My experience is the police departments are very segregated in DC. Park police cover things like Layfette Park across from the WH but that DC police have no jurisdiction there. Park police may Jace had jurisdiction on the outside grounds but Capitol Police likely had jurisdiction over the actual building.


57 posted on 07/26/2024 7:54:56 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: vivenne

“Park police may have had jurisdiction on the outside grounds but Capitol Police likely had jurisdiction over the actual building.”

That sounds correct.

The Park Police were witnesses to what happened on J6 and they could have stood up and defended the J6 political prisoners but they were intimidated by the fascists who control DC.


58 posted on 07/26/2024 7:58:36 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Years ago a DC Park policeman told me that they and DC police never arrest people because they are too lazy to do the paperwork. Nothing has changed


59 posted on 07/26/2024 8:02:10 PM PDT by vivenne
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