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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Capitol Police don't move vigorously to clean up this mess...
...more and more, people will begin to see them as complicit.
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If Capitol Police don't move vigorously to clean up this mess... (Original Post)
Girard442
Jan 2021
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They've called for mutual aid. Police are coming in from surrounding cities to help.
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
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msongs
(67,401 posts)1. gee maybe they could just "stand your ground" nt
RockRaven
(14,962 posts)2. Too late.... They're already there.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)3. They don't have enough forces...
This sort of attack demands a National Guard response -- which Trump is refusing.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)4. They've called for mutual aid. Police are coming in from surrounding cities to help.
DC was totally unprepared for this and did not have enough of a police presence to deal with so many lunatics. Why they didn't anticipate the orange maniac inciting riot is beyond me. I'm told National Guard is there but unarmed for some unknown reason.
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)5. It is looking a bit suspicious. nt