#j6-insurrection — Public Fediverse posts

This article is a great read if you want to understand what happened and why adequate preparations weren't made to defend the capitol against the J6 attack, in spite of ample intelligence warnings of the violence that was to come. I've included just a few paragraphs but the entire article is available at the link. I felt disgusted after reading it and with a sense that the capitol's vulnerability that day was purposely set up yet too few are asking questions about this.

How the Capitol Police enabled the Jan. 6 attack: A story no one wants to touch | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/01/28/how-the-capitol-police-enabled-the-jan-6-a-story-no-one-wants-to-touch/

#J6Insurrection

"he news media's continuing failure to explore why the U.S. Capitol was so scantily defended against an angry horde of white Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, has now been compounded by the House select committee's refusal to connect the most obvious dots or ask the most vital questions.

It's true that there were countless law enforcement failures that day — indeed, far too many to be a coincidence.

But the singular point of failure — the one thing that could have prevented all of it from happening — was that Capitol Police leaders brushed off ample warnings that an armed mob was headed their way.

They lied to everyone about their level of preparedness beforehand. Then they sent a less-than-full contingent of hapless, unarmored officers out to defend a perimeter defined by bike racks, without less-than-lethal weaponry and without a semblance of a plan.

Even the insurrectionists who actively intended to stop the vote could never have expected that breaching the Capitol would be so easy.

Exploring why Capitol Police leaders chose not to prepare for combat, despite mounds of intelligence pointing directly toward such a scenario, should have been a key goal of the Jan. 6 committee.

That Capitol Police leaders — like so many others in law enforcement — were unable to imagine white Trump supporters as a clear and present danger remains one of the most tragically under-addressed elements of that day's legacy, leaving crucially important lessons entirely unlearned."

This article is a great read if you want to understand what happened and why adequate preparations weren't made to defend the capitol against the J6 attack, in spite of ample intelligence warnings of the violence that was to come. I've included just a few paragraphs but the entire article is available at the link. I felt disgusted after reading it and with a sense that the capitol's vulnerability that day was purposely set up yet too few are asking questions about this.

How the Capitol Police enabled the Jan. 6 attack: A story no one wants to touch | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/01/28/how-the-capitol-police-enabled-the-jan-6-a-story-no-one-wants-to-touch/

#J6Insurrection

"he news media's continuing failure to explore why the U.S. Capitol was so scantily defended against an angry horde of white Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, has now been compounded by the House select committee's refusal to connect the most obvious dots or ask the most vital questions.

It's true that there were countless law enforcement failures that day — indeed, far too many to be a coincidence.

But the singular point of failure — the one thing that could have prevented all of it from happening — was that Capitol Police leaders brushed off ample warnings that an armed mob was headed their way.

They lied to everyone about their level of preparedness beforehand. Then they sent a less-than-full contingent of hapless, unarmored officers out to defend a perimeter defined by bike racks, without less-than-lethal weaponry and without a semblance of a plan.

Even the insurrectionists who actively intended to stop the vote could never have expected that breaching the Capitol would be so easy.

Exploring why Capitol Police leaders chose not to prepare for combat, despite mounds of intelligence pointing directly toward such a scenario, should have been a key goal of the Jan. 6 committee.

That Capitol Police leaders — like so many others in law enforcement — were unable to imagine white Trump supporters as a clear and present danger remains one of the most tragically under-addressed elements of that day's legacy, leaving crucially important lessons entirely unlearned."