Acting US Capitol Police chief acknowledges failures of January 6 but can't say what increased budget would do to solve them

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The acting chief of the US Capitol Police department acknowledged command and intelligence failures the day of the insurrection, but dodged questions from lawmakers trying to understand how the request for an increased budget would address those failures

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The acting chief of the US Capitol Police department acknowledged command and intelligence failures the day insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, but dodged questions from lawmakers trying to understand how the request for an increased budget would address those failures.

Leaders of the department responsible for protecting Capitol Hill and federal legislators reevaluated their funding needs in the wake of the insurrection and asked for a 21% increase over last year's funding, from $512 million to $619 million. Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman, who took over the department after her predecessor resigned, testified before one of the US House of Representatives committees that oversees the police force on Wednesday morning.

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When a pancake eating blimp is in charge of anything-Expect a disaster 2 occur.

Capitol Police are not grateful to Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department for protecting the Capitol.

Everybody knows that these acting chief has to watch what she says, she needs her job to survive! I don’t think that the acting chief should be on trial. We need the real chief that job when the riots where going on!

How did American intelligence not know that the capitol was going to be breached? I live in QLD Australia and I knew. It is clear to anyone with half a brain why this occurred and you have the reality tv star to thank for that. Americans are an embarrassment to human kind.

I did a quick Google search but is it possible the woman “acting” as the capitol chief now was not actually the chief when the riot occurred?

Defund the Capitol police too

Jan 6 attempted coup: Arrest and prosecute the domestic terrorists, funders, organizers, ringleaders, aiders, abettors and kingpins as soon as possible. TimothyDSnyder & maddow re need for a commission to document the facts of the Jan 6 attempted coup.

Defunding Police Doesn't Work

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