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Originally Posted by Itse
One thing I find quite disturbing is videos like these:..
Now, what that guard did there, standing alone against the crowd, keeping his cool and having the calm to lead the mob away from the senators was as heroic as it comes.
But where are the other guards, and most specifically, where are all the white guards?
I would assume most guards there are white guys. So why are there only coloured guards on this video?
In fact what I've seen so far, the guards that seemed to be doing their duty seemed to be mostly coloured guys, while the white guys are mostly seen assisting the wannabe lynchmob.
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Yeah there seems to be some contradictory videos floating around.
Im not sure if it was the first line of police only that seemed to be just letting the thugs through the front without letting the guys inside the Capitol know what was happening...though i cant imagine it wasnt common knowledge that the mob was on its way from the speech.
Remember that video of the cop just about getting the life squeezed out of him, was a white dude as was the poor soul who died. Not sure there was a racial line drawn within the police force as to who got posted where within the building that day.
Whatever the explanation, this was the single most bungled security failure ever in US history. At least on 9/11 it was a surprise so hard to prevent. Several law enforcement agencies knew this stuff was likely to occur and informed the CPD of such. Warnings were ignored obviously....why and by who are the pertinent questions.
To me the most astounding part of all this...now....is that there hasnt been a single news conference from metro police, capitol police, the FBI or anyone else that was responsible for security that day. In the past they have held them while events were still on going! Just bizarre and not sure why the Senators and House reps arent screaming from the roof tops about it all.