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NationofChange Insurrectionists made no effort to hide their intentions, but law enforcement protecting Congress was caught flat-footed. This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary. The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result. “We came up with the idea to occupy ...

REVEALED: Capitol Police REJECTED offers of National Guard help days before MAGA riot 'because they didn't want images of military troops on the Hill' U.S Capitol Police rejected National Guard and FBI assistance in the days and hours leading up the attack Officials feared the bad optics of uniformed troops facing off with Americans on Capitol Hill They also ignored warnings of an insurrection and prepared only for a free speech event  Disaster led to resignations of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and House Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving  They were both followed out the door by Michael ...

“This Political Climate Got My Brother Killed”: Officer Brian Sicknick Died Defending the Capitol. His Family Waits for Answers. ProPublica 1/8/2021 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The grieving family of a slain Capitol Police officer says he was a private man whose death shouldn’t be politicized. But now, it is forced to make sense of the reality that he is a victim of political violence, his legacy forever linked to an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. “He spent his life tr...

to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result. “We came up with the idea to occupy just outside the CAPITOL on Jan 6th,” leaders of the Stop the Steal movement wrote on Dec. 23. They called their Wednesday demonstration the Wild Protest, a name taken from a tweet by Trump that encouraged his supporters...

Insurrectionists made no effort to hide their intentions, but law enforcement protecting Congress was caught flat-footed.