The Latest: Capitol Police chief
resigning after mob attack
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: IowaDad,
1/7/2021 6:51:08 PM
WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Capitol Police will resign effective Jan. 16 following the breach of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Chief Steven Sund said Thursday that police had planned for a free speech demonstration and did not expect the violent attack. He said it was unlike anything he’d experienced in his 30 years in law enforcement. He resigned Thursday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on him to step down. His resignation was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. CORRECTION*
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
greyseal 1/7/2021 6:59:36 PM (No. 652276)
And yet during the Bush years, every Code Pink whacko made it into the gallery (and the media) with signs and placards. And it was only a few short years ago that the pink pussy-hat brigade was getting their moment of glory storming the Capitol during the Women's March.
Yesterday was a "riot", but this whole past year was just the "summer of love" with peaceful protestors. Nothing to see and completely different...
greyseal
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 1/7/2021 8:29:02 PM (No. 652360)
We are being lied to, but that's nothing new.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/7/2021 8:53:32 PM (No. 652384)
This is the result of living in and getting your news in the DC bubble. You learn to late that half the country is furious and no longer content to just take it without complaint.
Frankly, I expected violence. However, I expected Antifa to start picking fights.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/7/2021 9:27:03 PM (No. 652432)
Did he resign with a hefty severance package including retirement in the Bahamas?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/7/2021 10:15:37 PM (No. 652493)
If Nancy says resign, the guy didn't have much choice.
Nancy is running the Capitol.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
And Nancy is running wild, calling for impeachment calling for prison, firing Police Chiefs.
It's gonna be a tough 4 years folks.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/8/2021 1:43:32 AM (No. 652635)
By now the FBI should have infiltrated the violent leftist extremist groups like Antifa and the violent right wing extremist groups like the Proud Boys by now, and should have had all sorts of intelligence that those groups planned to converge on the US Capitol, to create havoc after they infiltrated the huge numbers of law abiding Trump supporters who had gathered to hear a speech delivered by Trump and then walked to the US Capitol to lawfully demonstrate. That no such intelligence was passed on to the US Capitol Police should tell you something right there.
You have to figure that the Capitol Police themselves, if they paid any attention at all to the Antifa/BLM riots that occurred during 2020 in the Democrat run cities, should have recognized that the tactic used by those extremist groups was to covertly infiltrate themselves into constitutionally protected large demonstrations and then without warning to perpetrate violent rioting. It appears that the Capitol Police really had no awareness of that same tactic could be used by infiltrating extremist groups during the massive Trump demonstrations that were planned to take place outside the Capitol building. There was a reason for the Capitol Police to not be ready for the unlawful havoc that occurred and that is that they had interacted with the law abiding people who had made up the big past peaceful Trump demonstrations without any rioting or unrest occurring.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
judy 1/8/2021 3:24:04 AM (No. 652680)
What did DC call the March against Trump on Inauguration Day? I recall many sessions of congress being interrupted with screams & protests , one thing for sure there is a double standard in this country ...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 1/8/2021 6:26:56 AM (No. 652748)
How about all of the protests that went on during the Scott Walker years. Oh, that was okay. Just like Russian collusion, impeachment, Ukraine etc., everything is the conservative or Republican's fault. Michelle and Barack Obama are running around stating that Donald Trump incited this. No, he didn't. He was giving the Trump voters a chance to express their frustration. After all, the state legislators, courts, and Congress were doing absolutely nothing.
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Criminally negligent policing! There were plenty of Antifa mingling in this crowd, just delighted to be able to stir up some trouble. Why wasn't everybody who entered the Capitol arrested? We will never know, of course. For an eternity we will be told by every media that this was all cooked up personally by Trump.