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Feb 25, 2021
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tells Congress ‘No Intelligence’ Suggested A Mob Would Violently Storm The Capitol
“To stop a mob of tens of thousands requires more than a police force,” Yogananda Pittman said Thursday. “It requires [a] regiment of soldiers.”
Patrick Edward McCaughey III allegedly used a police shield to trap D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges in a narrow hallway leading into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
President Trump told his supporters to “fight like hell” before chaos engulfed the U.S. Capitol, and one D.C. lawmakers says that could well be considering inciting a riot under city law.
Civil libertarians say that D.C.’s riot law is vaguely written and harsh, allowing police to arrest large numbers of people for little more than being near the scene of a riot.