Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a new member of the progressive ‘group’, is introducing legislation to investigate the alleged White nationalism in the US Capitol police in the deadly riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Bowman, DN.Y., is the author of the Congressional Oversight of Unjust Policing Act, or COUP Act, to set up a commission to investigate the attack and possible ties between White supremacists and Capitol police.
“We must face white nationalism,” Bowman told a news conference in New York on Saturday to discuss the consequences of the violent attempt to stop Congress from confirming the election vote.
“We need to address this directly, not just through law enforcement, but by recognizing that white nationalism resides in every American institution.”
Bowman said his proposed commission would investigate how white nationalism could exist in the Capitol police and whether police helped rioters enter the Capitol on January 6, which had to force lawmakers to evacuate.
“While we were experiencing Wednesday’s horrific events, my first question was, ‘How could they break into the Capitol? Why were the Capitol police so quickly undermined and overwhelmed?’ Bowman said.
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In one video on social media, it appears that police are taking selfies with rioters storming the Capitol. Other videos show police moving pro-Trump rioters past barriers.
“There are so many questions that have not been answered and that is why we need to investigate thoroughly,” Bowman said Saturday. “And as we saw in the media, some of the Capitol police let the rioters into the Capitol.”
Elected Congressman Jamaal Bowman presents himself on June 30 in Yonkers, NY for a portrait in the 16th Congress District. (Michael Noble Jr. for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Bowman’s legislation is the latest attempt by the ‘group’ to hold people accountable for the violence at the Capitol that has led to five deaths, including a Capitol police officer.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Was quickly spreading new articles of accusation against President Trump due to the incitement of the riot. Democrats are now moving next week with a swift accusation of another version of the article.
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And Representative Cori Bush, D-Mo., Wrote a separate resolution to expel GOP members of Congress who incited violence at the Capitol.
Civil rights groups and lawmakers were furious at the vastly different approach taken by law enforcers to Wednesday’s break in the U.S. Capitol compared to last summer’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.
Biden addressed the inequality at a news conference on Thursday.
‘No one can tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they would not be treated very differently from the crowd of thugs who stormed the Capitol. We all know this is true, and it is unacceptable, ”said Biden. “Completely unacceptable.”
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Bush, a BLM activist, told MSNBC on Wednesday: “We would have been shot if we had tried to do all this.”
In the wake of the riot, US police chief Steven Sund praised the law enforcement’s response, saying officers ‘react bravely when confronted with thousands of individuals involved in violent riots’.
Sund said in a statement that rioters attacked the police with metal pipes, dissolved chemical irritants and used other weapons against the officers in their attempts to enter the Capitol and inflict major damage.
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“The violent attack on the U.S. Capitol was different from what I experienced in my thirty years in law enforcement here in Washington, DC,” Sund said.
Police had a strong plan to deal with protests against the first amendment, Sund said, but ‘these mass riots were not activities of the first amendment; it was criminal riotous behavior. ‘
Under pressure, Sund will resign from his post on 16 January.
“The actions of the USCP officers were heroic given the situation in which they found themselves,” Sund said.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.