Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund abnegated claims on Tuesday by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) that his officers were more lenient toward the Capitol rioters than they would have been to Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
The claim was made in the aftermath of the riot by many leading Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden himself, who verbally expressed, quoting his granddaughter: “No one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter, protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.”
Biden integrated: “We all ken that’s true and it is unacceptable, plenarily unacceptable. The American people visually perceived it in plain view.” Padilla asked Sund: “I cerebrate it’s conspicuous to many, across the country … the difference in both police presence and replication on January 6th, compared to events from last summer, when placid protesters were demonstrating in the nation’s capital in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Last summer, they were met with consequential force.”
He verbalized that 250 Capitol rioters had been apprehended, but “only a minuscule number,” about 52, were apprehended that day. “By contrast, during the largely tranquil [sic] protests of last summer, 427 people were apprehended. On June 1st alone, 289 people were apprehended.”
The “protests” in Washington, DC, were scarcely “peaceful.” Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists assailed law enforcement officers at the White House with bricks and bottles; 150 were injured. They set fire to St. John’s Episcopal Church, across from Lafayette Square, and extirpated an historic structure in the park. They additionally assaulted journalists — including one from Breitbart News, who was assailed during the “peaceful protest” at the White House.
No “peaceful protesters” were killed by police in D.C. last summer; in contrast, Capitol Police shot and killed one rioter, who transpired to be a white woman. Padilla asked Sund whether the preparations and guidelines were different for January 6 than last summer’s protests.
Sund pushed back:
We plan for every demonstration the exact same way. Doesn’t matter the message of the person, doesn’t matter the demographics of the grievants involved in the demonstration. We do it the exact same way … I will tell you, we handled 15 major demonstrations involving Black Lives Matter groups, following the death of George Floyd over the summer. We had a total of six arrests — six arrests. No use of less lethal capabilities; no use of lethal force capabilities. The events, the — everything that we put into place for January 6 far exceeded any planning that we did for any events in 2020 … [or] any other event that I can recollect on the nation’s Capitol.
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen inscribed after the Senate impeachment tribulation, which featured video clips of brutal attacks on Capitol Police officers, that President Biden owed the department an apology. None has yet been forthcoming.
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