Guard waited more than three hours for approval to respond to Capitol riots, official says March 3 Members of the National Guard gather near the U.S. Capitol before the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) National Guard troops faced unusual restrictions and deployment delays from senior Pentagon leaders amid the attempted insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, including a more than three-hour wait for deployment approval even as rioters overran the halls of Congress, a senior Guard official told senators on Wednesday. “I was frustrated,” said Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard. “We had guardsmen on buses … just waiting to get the approval. I believe that number could have made a difference [earlier], we could have helped extend the perimeter and helped push back the crowd.”
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“Are you okay?” asked a friend and military spouse in the voicemail she left for me on the afternoon the mob of Trump supporters breached the Capitol so violently. At home with a new baby, and with her Navy reservist husband stationed in Germany, the thoughts running through her head that day would prove remarkably similar to mine. As she said when we spoke, “It’s as if the US has become a war zone.”
FBI Identifies Person of Interest in a Federal Case Regarding Death of Brian Sicknick By Pablo Luna / Saturday, 27 Feb 2021 07:52PM
The FBI has narrowed their search over the persons responsible for the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick death to only one individual. The unnamed suspect reportedly used bear spray on Sicknick and other Capitol police officers when almost a thousand mob supporting former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on January 6 to disrupt the Congress’ plan to accept the votes of the Electoral College.
Forty-two-year-old Sicknick physically engaged the protesters who stormed the Capitol on a fateful day and later went back to his office where he slumped. He was rushed to the hospital but died on January 7. A lying in state was done for him at the Capitol’s Rotunda which was attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden and wife Jill, and several other top government officials. His body
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America goes to war
Believe this at least: if we can’t stop fighting those wars across significant parts of the planet, this country won’t remain immune to them either.
Are you okay?” asked a friend and military spouse in the voicemail
she left me on the afternoon the mob of Trump supporters breached the
Capitol so violently. At home with a new baby, her Navy reservist
husband stationed in Germany, the thoughts running through her head that day would prove remarkably similar to mine. As she said when we spoke,
“It’s as if the U.S. has become a war zone.”
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