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The police force that was supposed to defend Congress in Washington DC was in no way prepared for the violent attacks on January 6.
The reports, which warned of a coordinated violent attack, never reached the Capitol police.
It emerged Tuesday at a hearing on the attacks in the Senate. This was the first time that Steven Sund, who resigned after the attack, explained about the dramatic day.
Sund described the rebels as ready for war.
– They came prepared for war. They came with weapons, radio equipment and climbing equipment.
Scars testify to a bad day
Police officer Carneysha Mendoza still has scars on her face after some of the rebels threw chemicals in her face.
– We could have been ten times more at work, and I still think the fights would have been just as devastating, he said at the Senate hearing.
He said it was by far the worst day he had had at work in his 19 years as a police officer.
Four people lost their lives when thousands of violent Trump supporters besieged parts of Congress, the day US elected officials validated Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
LOST: Police had to surrender when they tried to defend the congress building against angry protesters.
Photo: Joseph Prezioso / AFP
Like a “military attack”
Just before the violent protesters stormed, former President Donald Trump delivered a speech calling for resistance and claiming the election result was wrong.
TALKING: Donald Trump called for resistance on January 6.
Photo: Jim Bourg / Reuters
That’s one of the reasons Trump was tried. He was not convicted in the Senate, but he is the only president in US history to have been tried twice.
STEVEN SUND
Photo: PISCINA / Reuters
The police have received harsh criticism for not responding more strongly to the rebels. But at the Senate hearing, former police chief Steven Sund said they had not received enough information about what to expect.
Sund said his people were prepared for a protest, but not for “a coordinated military-type attack.”
An FBI report warning of a war situation never reached the then police chief.
According to Sund, it was only several weeks after the uprising that he saw the FBI warnings about what could be happening.
DEATH THREATS: Protesters had installed a gallows outside Congress. Several of America’s elected officials feared for their lives.
Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / NTB
I received no help
Washington Police Chief Robert Contee says they almost begged for the National Guard to be deployed as the uprising grew increasingly violent.
“The police officers were literally fighting for their lives,” Contee said.
A police officer lost his life during the attacks.
Contee blamed the United States Department of Defense, which he said were the ones that would not send the National Guard or the Army.
