It wasn't an "intelligence failure" that left Capitol Police unprepared -- it was racism

[marmar]

It wasn’t an “intelligence failure” that left Capitol Police unprepared — it was racism
Why didn't Capitol Police leaders take the threat seriously? The answer is obvious, but media won't say so

By DAN FROOMKIN
FEBRUARY 24, 2021 12:00AM


(Salon) Steven Sund, the disgraced former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police Department, was explicitly warned in a Jan. 3 memo from his own intelligence unit that thousands of desperate, violence-prone Trump supporters were planning to target Congress on Jan. 6, encouraged by the president himself.

The memo didn't really say much more than was already obvious to anyone paying attention, but it was authoritative, detailed and, of course, prescient.

Sund waved it off. He didn't bother to share it with the rank and file. He didn't equip his frontline officers with tear gas, or other non-lethal crowd-control weapons, or riot gear. Instead, he sent them out in street uniforms to man barricades made of bike racks, and get the shit beaten out of them. One officer died, and many others were injured. He let the Capitol fall to a mob.

But in his first public comments on Tuesday, Sund had the breathtaking gall to blame the breach of the Capitol not on his own poor decision-making, but on a "clear lack of accurate and complete intelligence across several federal agencies."

....(snip)....

Nobody asked Sund to compare and contrast his preparedness for Jan. 6 with his preparedness for Black Lives Matter protests that weren't even near the Capitol. Nobody asked why Sund didn't give front-line officers tear gas. Nobody asked Sund or the two former sergeants at arms if the white privilege they shared with the mob had made it seem unthreatening to them, unlike the "other". .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/23/it-wasnt-an-intelligence-failure-that-left-capitol-police-unprepared--it-was-racism/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Seems to deflect from the real issue.

It was an inside job between the WH and only 1 political minority party in Congress. Endgame is a One Party State. End the filibuster now. Protect voting rights and prosecute organized crime.

[uponit7771]

2. Then Sund lied under oath, he claimed he had no idea about battalian level attacks on

... the capital.

he did claim he knew assholes were coming but he also said they did not know about organized, battalion level, armed attacks that were coordinated.

There's some disconnect here, there no doubt needs to be an investigation

[mountain grammy]

8. Yes, I believe he did lie.

[uponit7771]

3. Correction, someone .. DID .. ask Sund why there was desparate response between BLM

... and Trump terrorist and Trump filibustered the time with he doesn't discriminate not answering the question.

Hmmmm

[Srkdqltr]

4. I heard some of the hearing and all seemed to say they knew that it was to happen.

But did nothing .... except pass the buck. Like they didn't care or were complicit to some extent. They didn't like the comments by General Honere (sp).

[stillcool]

5. It's Collusion...Senate hearings have their revelations...

like about who's lying, and how the white-wash is being applied, but we've seen far more information about the insurrection, than any one in D.C. has. For 5 years they haven't seen a fucking thing. Especially when they are complicit, which is always.

[Hekate]

6. KnR

[Ford_Prefect]

7. It seems we were thinking along similar lines today...

https://democraticunderground.com/100215152902