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The officers who spoke to the AP said they were given next to no warning by leadership on the morning of Jan. 6 about what would become a growing force of thousands of rioters, many better armed than the officers themselves were. And once the riot began, they were given no instructions by the department’s leaders on how to stop the mob or rescue lawmakers who had barricaded themselves inside. There were only enough officers for a routine day.
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They rejected offers of support from the Pentagon three days before the siege, according to senior defense officials and two people familiar with the matter. And during the riot, they turned down an offer by the Justice Department to have FBI agents come in as reinforcements. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the decision-making process.
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Police command structure crumbled fast during Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, many of the police officers had to decide on their own how to fight them off. There was no direction. No plan. And no top leadership. One cop ran from one side of the building to another, fighting hand-to-hand against rioters. Another...
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No one accused any of these people of being smart:

A self-confessed white supremacist who openly discussed plotting a school shooting and killing people in a church has been charged with being involved in the attack on the Capitol after his GPS monitor placed him at the scene.

Bryan Betancur, of Silver Spring, is facing charges including unlawful activities on Capitol grounds and disorderly conduct after he was arrested in Maryland on Sunday, authorities have said.

According to an affidavit signed by FBI Special Agent Alexis Brown, Betancur admitted to law enforcement officers that he is a white supremacist and that he is a member of several white supremacy organizations.
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White Supremacist Arrested after Ankle Monitor Places Him at Capitol Riots (newsweek.com)

I should add that the reason he had a GPS monitor was because he was caught planning a mass school shooting.
 
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tim said:
He's about as Fascist as Mussolini, and as about consistent too.
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I always thought the best analogy for Trump was Napoleon III (not the famous Napoleon, his nephew).

"When a man of my name is in power, he must do great things" - that was N3, but it could just as easily been DJT. AJP Taylor called this the first example of the label on the bottle being more important than the wine inside.
 
Propublica have made a great interactive tool for looking at a load of videos scraped from Parler, which were conveniently timestamped and geolocated.

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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
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This article tries to give an impression of what's there - the amount of material is pretty overwhelming so..

Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal

www.propublica.org
 
brogdale said:
And yet, after tomorrow's event...as you were...crack on with those connections to far-right militia groups... :facepalm:

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If that's it, AND tomorrow isn't mental. That's not bad and quite a useful bit of sampling. These 'far right militia' could be just as much Biden's bogeyman as Antifa was Trump's....If you took a dig around in the UK territorial army (which is in total about the size of this deployment of US military reservists) you'd probably more than a couple with far right connections but not hundreds
 
I see the beeb has him down as likely to pardon Sheldon Silver, the dodgy af Speaker of the NY Assembly. Currently serving seven years for various acts of corruption, backhanders and failure to investigate rape charges. Which would make him sound like an ideal candidate for the corrupt rapist in chief to pardon. Except he is a Democrat and a major democrat player, so it seems odd. Unless, maybe, he is hoping that if he 'gives the dems one' they might return the favour.
 
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