Two US Capitol Police (responsible for Congress) told me that Washington DC @MayorBowser has instructed the DC metropolitan police to "slow walk" any responses to distress calls from Senator Mitch McConnell's house on Capitol Hill.
The US Capitol Police feel overwhelmed at what lays ahead of them, since Antifa/BLM have targeted individual Members of Congress for harassment or worse, and the DC city government is sympathetic to the mobs.
.@realDonaldTrump should federalize the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police and the DC National Guard now - before election day - and bring in reliable National Guard from other states, if we are to believe what the organized rioters are planning for the night of November 3.
The violent extremists are planning to use the "BLM Plaza" area - about the size of three football fields, marked in red - as a "staging area" for a mob "siege" to attack the White House complex. @MayorBowser, who supports BLM, has closed off the area to traffic for months.
DC, as the seat of the US government, is a special case where it's proper to federalize city police and National Guard. The feds should enlarge the security perimeter around the White House along my aquamarine lines 18th St to the west, K St to the north, and 14th St to the east.
A police union poll shows that 71% of Washington DC police are so disgusted with @MayorBowser and the District Council that they want to quit, and 96% believe Bowser's policies will lead to more crime. washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-3-…
Twitter has branded and blocked these two responses as "offensive." Again, I will be on P*rl*r and G*b under my same name when Twitter censors my page.
Of course, less militant groups are planning to use the same staging area, too, sometimes with a festive atmosphere. Here’s one of the schedules: shutdowndc.org/updates/tjwa1u…
The House Sergeant at Arms, the chief law enforcement officer of the US House of Representatives & a board member of the Capitol Police, has offered all 435 congressmen private security in their home districts. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, not even after 9/11. @ChrisPlanteShow
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have yet to call on Antifa/BLM to knock it off. Neither has House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Certainly there's a reason for their silence.
DC Police sources tell me that over the past two years, "several dozen" House Democrats in Congress have applied for, and received, District of Columbia concealed-carry weapons permits.
Feds are putting up a fence now.
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