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Fact check Fail by the librul media. As always.

https://www.newsweek.com/senate-passes-bill-allowi...

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill that would allow U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) in Washington, D.C., to request assistance without prior approval during an emergency.

Why'd they need to pass a bill for that? Oh, right. Because they had to ask before.

"Capitol Police officers and their law enforcement partners were left alone to defend the Capitol and our democracy itself from violent insurrectionists, while the Chief of the Capitol Police was delayed in obtaining approval to request help from the National Guard," the bill's other co-author, Democratic Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, said.

Klobuchar's probably lying because according to your "factcheckers", there was no delay at all!

On January 4, then-USPC Chief Steven Sund requested the Capitol Police Board to declare a state of emergency and authorize a request for additional troops from the National Guard, according to The New York Times. However, the board denied Sund's request.

And this is from freaking Newsweek of all places.

When the riots started, Sund asked the board for backup from the National Guard. But it took over an hour for the board to fulfill the request. This was because the commander of the D.C. National Guard, Major General William J. Walker, required additional approval from the Pentagon before he could dispatch such forces.

Uh, huh.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-26...
U.S. Capitol police were denied pre-authorization for National Guard support two days before the violent insurrection that overwhelmed their defenses and threatened lawmakers, according to written testimony in a House briefing on security failures in the deadly Jan. 6 riot.

Almost like...hmm.

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