Politics January 6th

Unfortunately, one of the ways to do away with All parties is a replication of the horrible sights we witnessed January 6th.
The only was to dilute this mess is to have an equally funded five parties system.

Old codgers like McConnell and blue bloods like Graham should be first on your wish list. Others like the repugnant Cruz, Brooks and Tuberville ought to be in the first tier of citizen dis satisfaction.

The only way to limit terms is to have them counter themselves. That is a good old boys club in DC. They bicker, argue, accuse each other then collect your tax dollars & spend it like a drunken sailors. The system is so foul, they don't want lower class people to have a economic chance like raising minimum wages. Republicanism wants to cut off fair voting elections too!. I could go on and on but it increases our blood pressure and anxiety.

 

Was he the one that didn't even stand. I saw a senator sitting as everyone stood and applauded.

 

The ONLY and I say ONLY good thing he ever did was issue the Festivus report on budget waste. Acting like a spoiled child in public view suits his apparent arrogance. We shall consider him to be another Trumpoid. Another in the cowardly group of 43 Senators. I'll bet @Darkwebs or another mod can make a graphic with these cowards, attach a poll question and set the sports forum on fire.

 

Good

 

Trumpers: If a Blue is Black, your life doesn't matter.



And fuck the dems for not calling her as a witness during the impeachment.

 

'I still have the chemical burns on my face.' Capitol Hill police captain tells of hours-long battle of the Rotunda as MAGA rioters fired 'military-grade' CS gas

• Capitol Police Captain Carneysha Mendoza testified before the Senate Tuesday about her experience in the Capitol Building on January 6
• 'I received chemical burns to my face that still have not healed to this day,' Mendoza said
• She said rioters deployed 'military-grade' CS gas in the Capitol rotunda, exposing officers, while also hitting them with objects
• At one point, as she joined a line of officers, the 19 year veteran of the force nearly had her arm broken
• 'According to my FitBit, I was in the exercise zone for four hours and nine minutes,' she testified

Capitol Police Captain Carneysha Mendoza testified before the Senate Tuesday about her harrowing experience in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, especially what she witnessed in the rotunda.

The 19-year veteran of the force, who served as an active duty soldier in the Army before that - including serving at the Pentagon on 9/11 - described being hit with 'military-grade' CS gas and seeing officers being beaten with objects.

'I received chemical burns to my face that still have not healed to this day,' she told members of the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees.

Tuesday marked the first Capitol Hill hearing on the January 6 insurrection.

Senators in the Homeland Security Committee and the Committee on Rules and Administration want to find out where the breakdowns in planning and response occurred that allowed the violence to unfold in and around the citadel of American democracy, endangering the lives of, among others, former President Donald Trump's vice president, Mike Pence.

Mendoza was the first witness to testify, but she was joined by former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, the former House and Senate sergeants at arms and the head of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

Mendoza said she expected January 6 to similar to what she witnessed on November 14, during the Million MAGA March, when she spent the day separating groups like the Proud Boys from other groups.

'I literally woke up the next day, unable to move, due to the pain,' she said.

Mendoza testified that on January 6, she was planning to go into work at 3 p.m.

'It was approximately 1:30 in the afternoon, I was home eating with my 10-year-old, spending time with him before what I knew would be a long day, when a fellow captain contacted me and told me things were bad and that I needed to respond then,' she said. 'I literally dropped everything to respond to work that day early.'

A dispatcher told the officer that pipe bombs had been left at both the Democratic and Republican National Committees, and overall there were six active scenes.

Mendoza said she headed to the DNC first, due to proximity, but bypassed the office complex when she heard backup was needed at the Capitol Building.

The officer told the Senate that she entered the Capitol through a lower level door and saw a crowd of 200 rioters in front of her. By the time she turned around to find another entry point, a crowd had grown outside.

She found a line of Capitol Police officers and joined them.

'At some point my right arm got wedged between rioters and the railing along a wall, a [Civil Disturbance Unit] sergeant pulled my arm and had he not I'm certain it would have been broken,' she recalled.

From there, Mendoza headed to the rotunda.

'Where I noticed a heavy smoke-like residue and smelled what I believed to be military-grade CS gas, a familiar smell. It was mixed with fire extinguisher spray deployed by rioters,' she recalled. 'The rioters continued to deploy CS into the rotunda. Officers received a lot of gas exposure, which is worse inside the building than outside because there's nowhere for it to go.'

Officers, she said, were being knocked to the ground and hit by various objects by the rioters. 'I was unable to determine exactly what those objects were,' she said.

'After a couple of hours officers cleared the rotunda but had to physically hold the door closed because it had been broken by the rioters,' she said. 'Officers begged me for relief because they were unsure how long they could physically hold the door closed with the crowd continually banging on the outide of the door, attempting to gain reentry.'

She said they found furniture and other objects to eventually keep the doors closed.

'I know some said the battle lasted three hours, but according to my FitBit, I was in the exercise zone for four hours and nine minutes and many officers were in the fight even before I arrived,' she noted.

Mendoza also told the lawmakers that 'into the very early morning hours of my birthday, January 8,' she was with the family members of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died from injuries sustained during the insurrection.

'This was by far the worst of the worst,' Mendoza said. 'We could have had 10 times the amount of people working with us and I still believe the battle would have been just as devastating.'

'As an American, and as an Army veteran, it's sad to see us attack by our fellow citizens. I'm sad to see the unnecessary loss of life. I'm sad to see the impact has had on Capitol Police officers. And I'm sad to see the impact this has had on our agency and our country,' she also testified.

Mendoza's testimony was supplemented by top former officials who had been entrusted with security at the Capitol.

The former chief of the Capitol Police, who Mendoza complimented in her remarks, said the rioters came 'prepared for war.'

'The events on January 6, 2021, constituted the worst attack on law enforcement that I have seen in my entire career,' said former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund. 'This was an attack that we are learning was pre-planned, and involved participants from a number of states who came well equipped, coordinated, and prepared to carry out a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol.'

'I witnessed insurgents beating police officers with fists, pipes, sticks, bats, metal barricades, and flag poles. These criminals came prepared for war,' he said.

Sund also testified that there was nothing in pre-January 6th intelligence that indicated that arrests were likely, and that federal agencies including the FBI did not warn of expected violence.

The officials, who were dismissed in the immediate aftermath of the riot, are taking part in the first public examination of the MAGA mob that overran the Capitol during the counting of the electoral votes.

Sund said the breach was 'not the result of poor planning or failure to contain a demonstration gone wrong.'

He said Capitol Police had an 'effective plan in place to handle the First Amendment demonstrations and possible pockets of violence that were anticipated for January 6, based upon the available intelligence.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ce-officer-says-chemical-burns-face-riot.html

 

‘Zero respect’: Ted Cruz pictured scrolling through phone during harrowing opening testimony into Capitol riot

 

White Fascists Privilege by George Carlin.