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Pro Trump rioters defecated in the hallways and smeared feces on the walls

Capitol Police Rejected Federal Help Days Ahead Of Insurrection Attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police turned them down both times, according to senior defense officials and two people familiar with the matter.

Wilso wrote:

I can’t today. I’m busy watching the final season of The United States

I heard they’re renewing the series with a new producer and director.

Yesterday after reading about the security situation on Wednesday, I found myself leaping into a conspiracy mode. So I am trying to hold back.

I am prefacing my comment with that sort of caveat is that I find it curious leaders in the capitol police and the way they managed the whole day. I am just wondering if some of them weren't part of or at least in connection with some proud boys or other white supremist groups and deliberately held back and perhaps helped in some ways with pre planning ahead of the event? I mean I think it should be part of the investigation to look into that possibility.

Rex ChapmanHorse racing
@RexChapman
· 10h
Ted Cruz actually just had the nerve to say, “I have disagreed with the president’s language and rhetoric the last four years.”

Jonathan Chait
@jonathanchait
4m
The most nefariously effective attack line on Hawley would be "Hawley caused the Great Depression, google it."

Everyone — millions of people — saw this coming.

President Trump invited his followers to D.C. a month ago, promising them it’s “gonna be wild.”

They planned the riots openly on social media for weeks, bragging about how many guns they’d bring and the mayhem they’d set off.

They came by the thousands, and outside the White House, Trump rallied them to march on the Capitol on Wednesday, reassuring them that “after this, we’re going to walk down there, and I’ll be there with you.” (He wasn’t.)

“ ’Scuse me, ma’am,” the Trumpers said to me and everyone else they jostled as they rammed ahead, an army of Carhartt and camo, to storm the Capitol on their hero’s orders.

“They have the House. They have the Senate. They have the presidency,” a guy in body armor and a barn coat told the man marching with him. “This is the only thing left to do.”

Heck, you can say we’ve seen it coming for all four years that Trump’s been in office — the incitement, the rallying, the lies. Y’all know his words and actions just about lit every one of those torches of hate in Charlottesville.

And still, even though we all saw it coming, the headquarters of our government was literally invaded by loud, vaping fools in flannel, surplus-store body armor, animal pelts and face paint. Police seemed powerless to stop it.

After 21 years of covering protests in this town, I have never seen such a flaccid and disinterested preparation by law enforcement as what happened Wednesday.

Trump’s unhinged commands to the people who call themselves “Donald’s Army” led to this riot — and to the death of 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, a California native and Air Force veteran who jumped into the Capitol through a broken window, Trump flag tied around her waist, and was fatally shot by a law enforcement officer, according to a Washington Post article citing her family and law enforcement.

Were the people in charge of stopping this blinded by the White, perhaps?

Imagine if all those people were Black. Oh, wait, we don’t need to imagine. When thousands of demonstrators, largely African Americans, came to the nation’s capital in the summer to protest the killing of unarmed Black people, D.C. looked like Kandahar under occupation.

For a few thrown water bottles, a blaze that was about the size of my high school’s homecoming bonfire, and some stores looted by folks who came in cars and appeared to have little to do with the demonstrations for racial justice, the entire city was encircled by armored Humvees, and columns of soldiers were positioned on city streets around the White House, which became a fortress wreathed in several walls all summer long.

In one span of four days, D.C. police arrested more than 400 protesters.

So what happened this time? Did someone in charge just figure, “Oh, they’re patriots. They’re harmless.”?

Or: “These are good people; give all the officers the day off.”

Or: “Hey, let’s show America what White privilege looks like.”

Because that’s how it felt.

Trump lit those torches of White supremacy in Charlottesville

This is the same police force that swarmed me and my sons when we kicked a yellow and green bouncy ball around near the Capitol Visitor Center years ago. The same police who stared at me steely eyed when they found goldfish crackers in my son’s backpack. The same officers who kicked my husband out of the building when he went into the speaker’s lobby without a tie.

“The keys are in there!” someone in the crowd yelled.

And a young man in a hoodie and ridiculous body armor jumped into an articulating jib lift — a cherry picker — parked by the inauguration construction on the west side of the Capitol, turned it on and took people with Trump flags on rides 60 feet in the sky.

I watched a man in an orange hunting hoodie simply take a barricade apart, letting more of the mob pour onto the grounds. No police around.

The rioters climbed the inaugural scaffolding and waved Confederate battle flags. They swarmed steps and terraces that have been closed to the public for years.

Right in front of the Capitol steps, the place where my kids were kicked out years ago for sledding, someone set off a flare that flew in an arc, burning bright red, toward the dome.

“The Civil War is starting tonight!” a woman with salt-and-pepper hair and a lavender parka declared, waving her mittened hands in the air, giddy.

“Oh, it already started,” her partner said.

It was pure chaos and emotion with no plan, no mission and no reason.

A man with a megaphone verified that.

“People keep asking us, ‘What’s your plan?” he said. “I don’t have a plan, but I have a reason.”

After the stun grenades went off, after the phones all buzzed with the alert that D.C.’s mayor had set a curfew, they simply walked back to their cars and hotel rooms, regaling each other with stories of their glorious day trying to take down democracy.

That’s right. While a few dozen arrests were made, most just got to go back. I was surprised the police also didn’t hand them burgers on their way home.

This is the two Americas we need to be talking about.

White House's Kudlow not resigning, but taking vacation this month -CNBC

Mo Brooks
@RepMoBrooks
· 1h
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick murdered in illegal assault on Capitol interior. Officer Sicknick was a hero defending America.

I hope all Americans agree that Officer Sicknick’s murderer deserves the death penalty and should be so prosecuted.

https://cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/capitol-police-officer-killed/index.html