(01-25-2024, 08:57 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(01-24-2024, 07:35 PM)mikesez Wrote: The Speaker of the House is in charge of the Capitol police.
Then there is the DC metro police who answer to the mayor of DC.
Then there is the DC national guard that answers to the Secretary of Defense.
Each of them had overlapping responsibility to prevent people from forming a mob and entering the building.  
The Capitol police were the first line of security but not the only one.

Exactly. Pelosi failed at her job by not getting the Capitol police more involved and by not coordinating with other law enforcement to neutralize the situation. 

She failed the people of this country just as much as Trump did.

Pelosi and her team had a plan to get all members to the tunnels in case of a breach.  That part worked, at least.  But yes, they only had 1/10th of their sworn and deputized headcount deployed at that time and she certainly could have had more than that.

That said, it's victim blaming, to blame her.  She didn't bring in the bad guys.  Trump did.

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