Capitol Police observed 200 Proud Boys well before the Capitol was breached, lawmaker says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

US Capitol Police observed roughly 200 members of the extremist Proud Boys group moving toward the Senate around 11 a.m. on January 6, hours before the building was breached by a pro-Trump mob, a House committee chairman said Monday.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, revealed new details about the January 6 insurrection and failures to focus on threats emerging that morning. The new details emerged Monday during a House Administration Committee examining the Capitol Police Inspector General's most recent report into the department's counter-surveillance and threat assessment deficiencies.

Lofgren said the Proud Boys were only mentioned once in a Capitol Police timeline of the day, but instead, Capitol Police seemed to monitor three to four counter-demonstrators that showed up around 11:30 a.m. that day.

Asked why Capitol Police didn't focus on the Proud Boys, inspector general Michael Bolton said a later report would likely address that.

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[Frustratedlady]

1. It sticks in my brain that shortly before the insurrection, Trump named a new head of the Capitol

Police. It was the guy who resigned shortly after, but I can't remember his name to run a search.

Am I loony or correct?

[teach1st]

2. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sund

In 2017, Sund joined the United States Capitol Police as the Assistant Chief of Police and Chief of Operations. In June 2019, Sund was sworn in as the tenth Chief of the United States Capitol Police.

If I recall correctly, Trump did appoint people to the Pentagon shortly before the insurrection.

[Frustratedlady]

10. Thank you for the info. Maybe it was the Pentagon I was thinking of. n/t

[SeattleVet]

3. tRump has nothing to do with the Capitol Police.

They are under the jurisdiction of the Legislative branch, and their appointments are made by the Capitol Police Board.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Unprepared my ass. Everyone knew this was being planned and encouraged for weeks. nt

[FakeNoose]

5. "Counter-demonstrators" is a code word for Anti-Fa

That's all they were worried about that day.

Until suddenly they were overrun by ChumpHumpers and they were all saying "Oh shit!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Capitol Police must make major cultural shift to confront rising threats, inspector general says

Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton told House lawmakers Monday that the agency must begin to think of itself as a “protective agency” if it is to prevent future attacks on Congress like the one pro-Trump rioters carried out Jan. 6.

Under questioning from Democrats on the House Administration Committee, Bolton recalled how the Capitol Police presence was suddenly depleted during the insurrection when officers scrambled to respond to reports of pipe bombs near the offices of the Democratic and Republican National Committees, just off the U.S. Capitol campus.

“Invariably, when there’s an incident, police officers swarm. When you’re in protective mode, you have an area of responsibility,” Bolton explained, noting that a better approach for the Capitol Police would have been to establish a perimeter without diverting forces, instead allowing FBI agents or D.C. police to handle the investigative work off campus. Doing so, he estimated, would have doubled the number of units available to protect the Capitol as the crowd of thousands amassed outside.

“If those pipe bombs were intended to be a diversion, it worked,” Bolton said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-police-inspector-general/2021/05/10/9316a13e-b1aa-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html

[Pepsidog]

7. Imagine a young Bin Ladin or RW religious zealot with ambitions watching 1/6 and seeing how exposed

our seats of power have become. Just like the
ransomeware attack on the gas pipeline has exposed our cyber flaws in critical infrastructure held in the hands of private companies. As a country we are being picked apart by the RW media conspiracies of lies and foreign actors who see us as a paper tiger.

[rpannier]

8. ...a later report would likely address that.

What a BS answer

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[FSogol]

11. Asked why Capitol Police didn't focus on the Proud Boys,

inspector general Michael Bolton said a later report would likely address that when he thinks up a good reason.

Fixed it.