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Questions loom over why police were caught off guard by the insurrectionists.
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Disparity in police response: Black Lives Matter protests and Capitol riot
The difference in law enforcement responses has shed light on what some see as a historically Black and white issue of policing.Win McNamee/Getty Images, FILE
While many facts remain to be sorted out about how hundreds of rioters caught police off guard and stormed the nation s Capitol building last month, African American studies professor Mark Anthony Neal said recent history shows that had the multitude of marauders been Black Lives Matter protesters the law enforcement response would have been very different.
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists on Jan. 6 was able to happen because of poor planning by security officials.
Four law enforcement and security officers who were on duty during the Jan. 6 mob attack at the U.S. Capitol testified in Congress Tuesday and revealed a portrait of several failures that allowed the assault to occur.
The officials testifying Tuesday resigned in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said, "None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred."