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There Was No Plan, an Epic Fail
Apparently Capitol Police rejected offers of assistance of additional law enforcement help. I listened to a press conference Thursday morning involving the mayor of DC. She said there was going to be an investigation of what happened. That tells me that there was no coordinated plan to protect the city, or federal buildings.
WASHINGTON — Three days before the pro-President Donald Trump riot 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 a defense official and two people familiar with the matter.
There should have been a meeting with the metro police, and all federal law enforcement agencies to formulate a coordinated plan to set up a perimeter around the Capitol building, as well as a plan for moving officers around the city to other trouble spots.
Justice officials FBI and other agencies began to monitor Hotels, flights and social media for weeks and were expecting massive crowds. Mayor Muriel Bowser had warned of impending violence for weeks, and businesses had closed in anticipation. She requested National Guard help from the Pentagon on Dec. 31, but the Capitol Police turned down the Jan. 3 offer from the Defense Department, according to Kenneth Rapuano, assistant defense secretary for homeland security.
The Justice Department’s offer for FBI support as the protesters grew violent was rejected by the Capitol Police, according to the two people familiar with the matter. They were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said that as the rioting was underway, it became clear that the Capitol Police were overrun. There was no contingency planning done in advance for what forces could do in case of a problem at the Capitol. “They’ve got to ask us, the request has to come to us,” said McCarthy.
Nothing was learned from the incident on January 3. Watching the January 6 incident, it was obvious that there was no plan to prevent violent entry into the Capitol building. Bike racks are not enough to prevent entry into a building. They can be used as weapons against police, or as seen in one video as a battering ram to break through a door.
Once they’re inside you’ve lost the battle. The Capitol perimeter should have been protected by fences at around seven-feet high. Once the fence is assaulted then impact munitions, and gas should be used to force people away from the fence. If you have to retreat then flash bangs, and grenades containing about 40 rubber balls can can be slid across the pavement into the crowd. The second line of defense should be at all entry points, outside the building.
You have to break the collective mindset of the mob by using pain compliance to instill an individual mindset. The individual mindset is; I better get the hell out here before I get hurt.
Rioters will be injured, as will the media; once the police declare an unlawful assembly then everyone must leave. If you want to run with the bulls don’t whine about being gored.
One final comment. The apparent failure to have a coordinated plan may have led to the shooting death of a woman in the Capitol building. Once the plainclothes protection unit for members of Congress, their staff, and building employees became the second line of defense it reveals the epic fail of no plan.
Published in Policing
I agree because that would entail redistributing the offices of all of the federal government across the states. That in itself will be a stopper. There is a lot more to this issue and the failure to maintain order over the course of this year is a very bad indicator. The federal government should take back administrative control of the District.
The federal government should do a lot of things it doesn’t and shouldn’t do a lot of things it does. More of both coming soon.
And ones with red and white stripes, before they become rainbow stripes.
DC is too small to be a state. Return the land to the states that originally had it.
has anybody asked Puerto Rico if they want to be a state? When I was there last a significant amount of its citizens felt differently. Or does that stuff not matter under the Democrats?
The seven foot fencing is being installed today.
We don’t know much, but it’s hard not to think we’re being naive. Who did it benefit? Who might have planned the incident? Which groups are accustomed to violence and use it most of the time. Did we in fact see a hammer and sickle on an arm of a masked kid who broke into the capital? Do we not know who we’re dealing with. How many inside folks here have experience with marxist operatives?
FYI: That user was “persuaded” by a Twitter employee to “voluntarily” move his political commentary from Twitter to Parler:
https://parler.com/profile/muse
The video which he was retweeting is still on on Twitter, however:
This is simply proof that federal law enforcement is underfunded.
;-)
No we did not.
But Americans been told for years that walls don’t work!
Don’t know who you are referring to as We. I doubt there is much naivety in those participating here. Those I wonder about would be the scheduled objectors in Congress who pulled out, it looks as if they want to be always where they think the power is. They could be wrong.
Here is another view.
https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Police-let-mob-in-Capitol-attack-Trump-riot-15853548.php
Mistakes? Or a setting up for this situation? An organization that effectively deals with protests on a daily basis this time made a series of failures and mistakes? Pull the other one.
I could see the bigger states divided.
And the Biden administration starts.
Now I don’t really have to read the rest of the comments. (But I will, of course.)
How tone deaf are these “elites”?
I have been looking at the video again, and again, and while I thought (and may still think) that her hands were in a decerebrate positioning, her eyes were half-closed and apparently her lids were fixed, and there was lots of blood on the floor. But this video shows all that the blood on the floor turned out to be the flag she had draped herself in, and when she was lifted up, there was no blood on the floor. Also the video at this link shows a concerned protester talking about the incident, but he is reported to be an at least one other anti-fa protest, and he was purportedly released without charges for the rioting.
I thought from the beginning that it was oddly coincidental that she was reported to be a retired 14-year “high level” intelligence officer with the Air Force.
Now I’m not so sure that it was actually a killing. As a member here on Ricochet, whose profession indicates he should know, said, there are such things as false flags.
https://www.brighteon.com/e0f91c48-1728-450a-92be-963ab3c166c4