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mackdaddy

(1,527 posts)
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:30 AM Jan 2021

Off duty cops and military in the mob tried to get in by "flashing their IDs"!!

Meanwhile, a current Metro D.C. police officer on the scene yesterday said in a public Facebook post that off-duty police officers and members of the military, who were among the rioters, flashed their badges and I.D. cards as they attempted to overrun the Capitol.
6:40 PM · Jan 7, 2021·






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Off duty cops and military in the mob tried to get in by "flashing their IDs"!! (Original Post) mackdaddy Jan 2021 OP
Using "fake" (expired) ID to enter a restricted lapfog_1 Jan 2021 #1
I give up. What are "National security equities?" dchill Jan 2021 #2
They'll be on camera. C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #3
there were also Capitol police BainsBane Jan 2021 #4
Roh Roh 4Q2u2 Jan 2021 #5

C_U_L8R

(45,001 posts)
3. They'll be on camera.
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:34 AM
Jan 2021

It's only a matter of time for their careers to evaporate like a Capitol Police line.

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)
4. there were also Capitol police
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:35 AM
Jan 2021

who welcomed the terrorists and took selfies with them. This was according to a terrorist who spoke on CNN.

 

4Q2u2

(1,406 posts)
5. Roh Roh
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:42 AM
Jan 2021

Sedition for military members is serious shit.
Bad for civilians, no joke firing squad for Military.
Article 94 of the UCMJ.
Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1)with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2)with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3)fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b)A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial directs

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