Capitol Police observed 200 Proud Boys well before the Capitol was breached, lawmaker says [View all]
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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