Capitol Police riot unit suffered before attack on Congress: watchdog POLITICO 1 hr ago By Kyle Cheney © Brent Stirton/Getty Images Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
The Capitol Police unit tasked with containing violent protests is so disorganized and outdated that officers “actively find ways to circumvent getting assigned there,” according to an internal review of the department’s failures ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.
And little has been done since the insurrection to reform the so-called Civil Disturbance Unit, Inspector General Michael Bolton found. The unit’s procedures deemed outdated by internal audits as far back as July 2020 remained unchanged as of March. A planned training for the unit alongside the Secret Service “has not materialized,” according to a congressional memo describing Bolton s findings.
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Capitol riot cases strain court system POLITICO 3/10/2021 By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney © Brent Stirton/Getty Images Pro-Trump rioters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
When a top federal judge in Washington, D.C., convened court on a recent morning in one of the hundreds of cases stemming from the storming of the Capitol, it was pitch black outside of prosecutor Adam Alexander’s windows.
“What time is it in Alaska?” Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell asked.
“It is 5:03 a.m. in the morning,” the Anchorage-based assistant U.S. attorney replied cheerfully via Zoom.
I, Too, Was Once a Soldier of the Apocalypse: Why White Evangelicals Must Choose Between Reform and American Extremism Time 3/1/2021 Charles King © Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation s capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. A pro-Trump mob later stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Five people died as a result.
In my small Pentecostal church, we all expected the guillotine to be set up in the parking lot, probably by the One World Government. It was Arkansas in the early 1980s, and to our youth group, certain truths were known because they had been repeated by friends and adults, long before Twitter or Gab.