Internal documents from the Capitol Police force have been revealed, and they show that the day before the Capitol Riot, police were far more concerned about counter-protestors than they were about the "Stop The Steal" lunatics. This is in spite of the fact that plenty of credible threats from the soon-to-be rioters had already been revealed, with some arrests even taking place prior to the riot. This helps explain the poor response from the police force, as Farron Cousins explains.
Link - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/capitol-police-documents-unprepared-jan-6-riots-517478
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Politico has published internal documents from the Capitol police force from the day before the capital riots. So these documents were from January 5th, where the Capitol police actually laid out their strategy on how to, you know, deal with what was supposed to happen on January 6th. And these documents show us that the Capitol police are for lack of a better phrase, completely incompetent, because it turns out that the Capitol police force, at least the higher ups, the ones who wrote the 17 page memo, they didn't think the people who ended up being the Capitol rioters, you know, the stop, the steel folks. They didn't think they were going to be the bad ones. No, no, no. They wanted to focus on the counter protesters. You know, the liberals, those were the ones these documents revealed. The police thought were going to storm the Capitol, hiding and shrubbery.
It says at one point trying to weave their way inside. Let me read a little bit of this. This is from Politico. One of the five mission objectives. The document list was to quote, establish and maintain a fixed March route while excluding access to counter protesters, to minimize potential for violent interactions that objective quickly dissolved as protestors, overran, police, barricades, and storm. The Capitol later, the document details further plans for dealing with anti-Trump protestors directly from the document. Quote, counter protesters will be expected to attempt to gain access by entering shrubbery and other knacks natural fixtures. It is anticipated that a March will likely progress into the Capitol grounds and that Washington's metropolitan police department would escort the marchers.
So let me get this straight Capitol police. You were worried that liberal counter protestors were going to storm the Capitol and you arrange for a police escort to take the stop, the steal people from the rally to the Capitol, and then, oh no, everything's going haywire. They're attacking us. So what do we do? You know, I had a lot of sympathy for the Capitol police officers, especially the ones who came and testified in front of the January 6th committee. I watched those testimonies that were heartbreaking, but a kind of loses something, right? When you find out what was really going on behind the scenes, and I'll tell you this though, I I'll give you this much. It, it wasn't necessarily the police on the ground. Okay. They were not the ones who made this D these decisions. They were not the ones who drafted this memo. This comes from the higher ups in that police department and every single one of them, any of them who either drafted this memo, worked on it or approved it. Every one of them should be fired for gross competence. It is literally the job of the police officers to assess threats and assess violence. In addition to keeping people safe. And in all three of those areas, they failed on that day and they didn't just fail. They failed spectacularly in a way that left multiple people dead.
So again, sympathy for the officers on the ground, right? Sympathy for the ones who came and testified in front of the January six committee. But for the higher ups, there needs to be answers. Okay. This is the kind of thing that the select committee needs to be calling the superiors up to testify about how did you get it so wrong? There's even one part. I got to read this, this, this is absolutely saying direct quote from their memo. At this time, there are no specific known threats related to the joint session of Congress, electoral college votes, certification, swing, and a miss right Capitol police. There's no threats, nothing, except those counter protesters. Don't those darn liberals are going to be horrible for us. You blew it every step of the way. Everything you predicted in this memo was frigging wrong.
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