https://archive.vn/fDZE2 John Robb @johnrobb Jan 11, 2021
Why the Army was slow to send the NG to help the Capitol Police: “I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background” The entire event hinged on this? A bad photo from last year's protests?
This photo from last year is why the Capitol event turned into a fiasco? “I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background”
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Media, Jan 2021: Bitch about lack of National Guard and tear gas.
Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard
By Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Peter Hermann and Karoun Demirjian
Jan. 11, 2021 at 4:38 a.m. UTC
The D.C. contingent was flabbergasted to hear Piatt say that he could not recommend that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request.
“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background,” Piatt said, according to Sund and others on the call.
Pentagon officials have emphasized that the Capitol Police did not ask for D.C. Guard backup ahead of the event or request to put a riot contingency plan in place with guardsmen at the ready, and then made an urgent request as rioters were about to breach the building, even though the Guard isn’t set up to be a quick-reaction force like the police.
https://archive.vn/PjUHG buzzfeed
People Are Contrasting Photos From The Attempted Capitol Coup With Those From Black Lives Matter Protests
In particular, people are noting how different the police presence looks.
Ikran Dahir, Lauren Strapagiel
Posted on January 6, 2021, at 5:22 p.m. ET
Media, June 2020: Bitch about National Guard and tear gas.
The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us?
On June 2, members of the D.C. National Guard stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during ongoing protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images)
By Philip Kennicott Art and architecture critic
June 3, 2020 at 7:06 p.m. UTC
Who in the Pentagon, or the leadership of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, thought this was a good look? Who thought what America needs now is a viral image of the American military in camouflage and body armor occupying a memorial that symbolizes the hope of reconciliation, that has drawn to its steps Marian Anderson to sing for a mixed-race crowd during a time of segregation and Martin Luther King to proclaim “I have a dream,” and millions of nameless souls, of all races, who believe there is some meaning in words like “the better angels of our nature”?
A photograph of members of the District’s National Guard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial began racing around Twitter and other social media Tuesday, as the country was still digesting a violent assault by Secret Service, police and guard troops on peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday. The photo showed troops standing resolutely, perhaps provocatively, on the memorial’s wide and inviting steps, as if they owned it. To many, it symbolized the militarization of Washington, of our government and country, and the terrifying dissolution of old boundaries between partisan politics and the independent, professional military.
https://archive.vn/0bJGB huffpo 06/03/2020 12:29 am ET | Updated Jun 03, 2020
Chilling Image Of Masked Soldiers Blocking Lincoln Memorial Draws Outcry Online
Dozens of National Guard troops were seen on the memorial’s steps as peaceful protesters gathered below.
By Josephine Harvey
I can't believe 9/11 Pearl Harbor White Insurrection Terrorism happened because media bitched so hard about the National Guard last year, they weren't deployed this year!
https://archive.vn/XFs7C https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11Rhcx2ug4/ Greenwald: "Liberals' 9/11". Chuck Schumer (D-NY): "day that will live in infamy" - Pearl Harbor
https://archive.vn/wdRvB sfgate
The Latest: Pelosi ties rioters' actions to 'whiteness'
Jan. 9, 2021|Updated: Jan. 10, 2021 8:46 p.m.
https://archive.vn/oPi5n https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11RhOuCwzh/ wsj: 'Biden: Capitol rioters were insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. Law against domestic terror, urged to make WH post against ideologically inspired violent extremists, federal crime'