4 dead, 52 arrested, 14 police officers injured after pro-Trump rioters breach US Capitol; FBI opens

[ucrdem]

Source: USA Today

DC updates: 4 dead, 52 arrested, 14 police officers injured after pro-Trump rioters breach US Capitol; FBI opens investigation
Updated 1:00 am E.T. Jan. 7, 2021

WASHINGTON — The nation's lawmakers took to their electoral duties late Wednesday amid broken glass and smashed doors in the U.S. Capitol following an historic day of havoc wrought by pro-Trump rioters who breached the building in hopes of thwarting President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Thousands of rioters had gathered at the National Mall to protest the election results. At a campaign-style rally about an hour before the mob broke through police lines at the Capitol, Trump had urged them to go to the building.

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said the chaotic day included four fatalities: a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others — two men and one woman — who died in “separate medical emergencies.” Police had made "in excess of 52 arrests," including 26 on U.S. Capitol grounds, he said.

At least 14 Metropolitan Police Department Officers were injured during the demonstrations, Contee said. Two pipe bombs — one from the DNC and one from the RNC — were also recovered by police, he said.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/06/dc-protests-live-updates-trump-supporters-electoral-college-proud-boys/4126018001/

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I didn't find the latest numbers posted but feel free to lock if they have.


A supporter of US President Donald Trump sits inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he protests inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021.

[intrepidity]

1. Seems a zero or two missing from # arrested

should have been at least 10x more, dispicable.

[WestIndianArchie]

2. I agree

Grab the camera footage and lock anyone up that was there.

[ucrdem]

5. Two pipe bombs

Unbelievable. Yeah at least 10x. Plus full accountability up the chain.

[myohmy2]

14. "Two pipe bombs"

...terrorism...

...

[KS Toronado]

29. RADICAL REPUBLICAN TERRORISM

[myohmy2]

33. absolutely...

...we shouldn't pretend it isn't what it is...

...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. And something about a truck with more bombs nearby?

[Lulu KC]

57. Yes--trying to find that

I think there were bombs found near both DNC and RNC HQs, but I can't figure out if those were in the truck, two trucks, etc. SO MUCH to sift through in the information.

[tblue37]

65. A large supply of ready to use Molotov cocktails.

[lapfog_1]

6. the majority of even that paltry number

were arrested for curfew violations, not for the violence and destruction of property... never mind the sedition.

[Jetheels]

44. Maybe as a "oh we better arrest some people", to cover their asses for letting em in

and taking selfie’s with em.

[lapfog_1]

45. the difference between the "open the barricades and take a selfie"

capitol police... and the DC police.

[Jetheels]

43. I dunno what's more criminal,

the attack on the Capitol or the lack of significant law enforcement. Probably the latter.

[TEB]

3. This is what maga has cost us again it keeps growing tragedies

Yes they need to be charged with sedition

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Three not arrested: Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump

for inciting a riot.

[SamKnause]

7. Mo, Brooks, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Rudy Giuliani, and the list continues.

[Jetheels]

50. Ivanka also incited, then deleted tweet.

[quakerboy]

8. 52 arrested by DC police for Curfiew violations

and a few in DC on weapons violations.

How many arrested for insurrection or forcing entry into government property, etc.

As far as i can find so far.. noone has been arrested for forcing their way into the capitol building.

[modrepub]

9. The Arrest Total Better Go Up

You forgive this type of behavior then you're asking for more of it.

While I'd love to see some of the more violent folks serve some time, I'd be happy if the bulk of these idiots were forced to do a couple hundred hours of community service in DC. Since most of them are out of town, I say they should be forced to stay overnight in Trump hotels. I'm sure he'd waive the $300/night charge and provide them with free dinner and breakfast. After all, they were just doing what he told them to do.

[doc03]

10. I hope they don't make arrests until after Jan 20th or Trump will pardon them nt

[Harker]

21. You have something there.

He'll probably still try to pull some magic blanket pardon for anyone who has ever done anything illegal while trumping.

With him, it's necessary to consider the worst imaginable circumstance - then go way beyond it.

[Lonestarblue]

24. Someone in the White House needs to keep Trump tranquilized and out of sight for 13 days.

I also want the House to impeach him immediately and send it to the Senate for trial. Let them go on record for his attempt to bribe election officials to change votes and to incite violence and urge rioters to ransack the Capitol. Had lawmakers and staff not been rushed out, how many of them might have been attacked by that mob?

This is disgraceful and I hope the media hangs this around Republican necks.

[Harker]

27. Fast track articles of impeachment. Yes.

I'm pretty sure the 'innocent' shrugs and finger pointing are well underway, but too many are on record as being complicit for their wreck of a party to escape the stench of this.

Let the de-Trumpification of America begin.

[mdbl]

11. Lock em up!

Stupid morans.

[Ford_Prefect]

12. Where were all the police and federal agents who "protected" the President during his "bible walk"??

Why didn't they have enough police on station to control the crowds to begin with???

I watched this and have been at any number of marches in DC in the past. You were never able to climb the Capitol steps like they did with NO police line and relatively few Capitol Police present. The officials responsible had more than enough warning of the intentions of some of those coming to DC to protest. The level of preparation and the lack of police presence suggest that someone may have called them down so as not to be too threatening to the Trumpian Horde.

There is no excuse for this breach and the mayhem which followed. We will likely see more of it from the same fools and dangerous actors.

Trump has been turning up the flames for months. He told them to take the Capitol and Congress and they came prepared to do that. This outcome was entirely predictable and yet no-one saw fit to gag or arrest the agent-provocateur in chief let alone provide in-depth crowd control??? This is straight out of Putin's Ukraine destabilization playbook almost note for note. Anyone who paid attention to how that went down could not avoid recognizing this.

I'm not kidding or using some tired metaphor here. The FBI and DHS should have been on alert long ago, but someone told them ignore the Russians and worry about the "Chinese threat."

We've had 500,000 and more during Civil Rights and Vietnam protests, and since, and no-one at the Pentagon, Capitol, or White House was put personally under threat, though there were certainly a few who have deserved it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. +1

[onetexan]

30. inside job. Capitol police has 2000 but only 500 were on hand. They deliberately kept police to a

minimum to allow the insurrection to play out. As Colin Powell questioned earlier on Morning Joe, the goons were hanging on the capitol steps & grounds and they did not have enough manpower to clear them. The National Guards & other authorities were not called up till later & it took time for them to mobilize, delaying the clearing of the grounds later into the evening.

The first thing the leaders need to do is remove the Con, expel the sedition caucus from congress then prosecute every insurrectionist goon that came to the capitol. Lots of media footage to comb through but they need to be held accountable or it will occur again.

[Jetheels]

46. I've walked by the capitol building a few times. The one remarkable thing about it was

there always snipers on all the roofs.
In NYC, there’s ak47 police outside trump towers 24/7. With dogs.
And NYC was completely boarded up when there was a hint of maggot violence.

[IronLionZion]

52. DC National Guard reports to the President

Same with federal law enforcement. MPD (DC's police) were not authorized to enter the Capitol grounds. VA and MD national guard units and police were on standby but not authorized to enter Capitol grounds.

https://dc.ng.mil/About-Us/#:~:text=National%20Guard%20has%20been%20delegated,reports%20only%20to%20the%20President.

Toward the end of the day, Pence finally authorized it since Trump refused to do so.

[Ford_Prefect]

55. So Trump along with his White House staff are responsible for arranging ALL of it.

Everyone who died today, everyone who was injured, everyone who was LIED TO and likely still believes THEY were right to attack Congress, every member of the Secret Service, Capitol Police, and the DC Police who worked to quell the riot, Every Member of Congress and the Senate, and every US Citizen, voter and resident has ONE MAN and his Inner Circle to blame for every single ugly bit of it, along with Nunes, McConnell and all the other Putin agents in place.

President Atrocity needs to go, NOW!

[IronLionZion]

58. Trump encouraged it and was willing to sacrifice members of Congress

including members of his own idiotic party and his VP who were at risk. Many of them have said they've never seen Pence so pissed. He had to call the Pentagon to request assistance since Trump refused.

GOP supporters are complicit and should be held accountable. House members can be expelled. The Senate should figure something out when we have the majority.

[orangecrush]

13. 2 Washington Post Journalists

Were arrested while filming.

Something stinks big time.

[onetexan]

31. by whom? the Capitol police or Metro DC police?

Capitol police is corrupted. They need to investigate & remove the rot ASAP.

[Yeehah]

16. Can't wait to see that scumbag trump bumpkin boohoohoo-ing in front of the judge

at his sentencing hearing.

[KS Toronado]

34. Me too, also be fun to watch trumpers reactions in real time...

Some will be ashamed for having liked him, and those who love him will be crying injustice just like their fuhrer

[black-bear]

17. Michigan

Excuse me, but wasn't the takeover of the Michigan Capitol a dress rehearsal for the storming of the US capitol.

[onetexan]

32. good point!

[lark]

18. Lock that fucker up!

If he has a job - fire him
If he works for himself - no one use him ever again and shut his company down.

[godfree2]

19. behold the new C C C P

CCCP Coup Clutz Clan Publicans

[keithbvadu2]

20. Terrorist got maced

Terrorist got maced

Revolution was supposed to be easy

https://imgur.com/gallery/RBNKPmM

[Paladin]

22. Did they arrest that tatoo'd asshole with the horns on his head?

You know the one: face-painted, big fur hat, and a potentially lethal, sharp-pointed spear in his hand? They all need to be busted and thrown in jail, but THAT motherfucker ought to be easy to I.D., easy to apprehend, and easy to put in prison until he's an old man.

trump's probably just signed a pardon for the guy. Gotta love the ongoing white privilege.....

[Bengus81]

39. Already identified and named on a CNN story...Those fucks can't hide anywhere

He's a big time Qanon asshat. Me thinks Bubba is going to have FUN with him in a Federal lockup.

[Paladin]

40. Delighted to hear it. Thanks.

I'm still apprehensive about trump giving him a pardon---and maybe a Medal Of Freedom to go with it.

[twodogsbarking]

25. If they had cell phones

they can be found.

[thesquanderer]

26. I wonder who took that photograph.

If there's any justice, that will be a photo of one of that man's last actions as a free man, for quite some time.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Didn't Trump say in June that rioters destroying Federal property should be shot?

Why didn't police defend the barricades? Rubber bullets, tear gas, crowd dispersal measures. Zilch.

[IronLionZion]

35. If GOP won't expell members for inciting terrorism,

their party needs to be disbanded. I hope Nancy expels some House members for this. The Senate should punish Hawley and Cruz somehow.

[Marthe48]

36. There are terrorists among us

We can't go anywhere because of Covid-19, and if we do go anywhere, we have a chance of terrorists overrunning the place.

[Scalded Nun]

37. Somewhat Side Note - Listening to Senators and Reps talking about the siege and

how frightened/terrified they were having to hide/shelter/fear for their lives, I could not help but note the irony of their inaction over the years when it comes to our schools.

Well Senator, Representative, etc. ... Just how the fuck do you think a child in school feels when going through those drills or, heaven forbid, when there is an actual active shooter roaming the school? They live with that possibility every school day. You have now experienced that once in your elected life.

[TryLogic]

60. Excellent point

[Blue_Roses]

64. Good point and unfortunately

it usually takes experiencing a horrific act for one to understand and have empathy. Sometimes that's the only way things change. Sad.

[Bengus81]

38. Those POS THUGS are already being identified by name on a story on CNN

They can't hide.........

[AllaN01Bear]

41. how many of you remember the ted bundy episode where they took over a wildlife refuge?

that was a dress rehersal. bundey go pardend for it . and the cops were cosey with them too.

[generalbetrayus]

53. You're thinking of Ammon Bundy.

Ted Bundy was a serial killer executed in Florida over 30 years ago.

[beachbumbob]

42. absolute failure at all levels in not a coincidence

[TryLogic]

61. And, a reported said they started breaking in all at the same time. Not random violence.

[beachbumbob]

62. coordinate attack and coordinated with certain Capital Police personnel as well

[The Mouth]

47. They should have just shot everyone and anyone forcing their way in

[Lars39]

56. That is sure what would happen on a military base

[llashram]

48. 52 arrested??

should have been busloads behind razor. wire this morning! Oh, wait...dumb me they weren't black or brown. They mainly got THE pass and most know it.

[The Mouth]

49. asking .... (quote from a friend)

Asking “where are the police“ as Nazis and Klansmen attack
the capital is like asking “where’s Miley” when Hanna Montana is on stage.

[NCjack]

51. It's over. I think Trump and his friends have learned their lesson.

[generalbetrayus]

54. Susan Collins is concerned, I'm sure.

[malthaussen]

59. "A supporter...sits inside the office of... Nancy Pelosi as he protests..."

Can they softball that caption any more? How about "An insurrectionist violates the chambers of the US Speaker of the House..."
Full-facial recognition, though. I wonder what array of legal charges the gentleman might be facing in the near future.

-- Mal

[AntiFascist]

63. Ghouliani wanted "trial by combat"...

he should be careful what he wishes for.