The US police union on Friday condemned ‘wrong’ stories and ‘biased news reports’ about the actions of officers amid the riot at the American Capitol on Wednesday.
Trade union officials claim that politicians from both parties used the police as political pawns.
“It is, to say the least, discouraging when our officials return home to see inaccurate and biased news reports featuring members of Congress from both political parties, who continue to use law enforcers as pawns in the political process,” said Kenneth. Spencer, chairman of the U.S. Park Police Fraternal Order of Police, according to the Washington Examiner in a statement.
Many Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden, have claimed that some of the officers protecting the Capitol during the riots treated Trump supporters much better than Black Lives Matter rioters were handled by officials in recent months.
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“No one can tell me that if it were a group of protesters from Black Lives Matter yesterday that they would not be treated completely differently from the mob that stormed the Capitol,” Biden wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “We all know it’s true – and it’s unacceptable.”
Liberal MSNBC host Joy Reid said Wednesday that, “White Americans are never afraid of the police, even if they are committing an uprising.”
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“Even if they’re occupying our Capitol to steal the votes of people who look like me, because in their minds they own the land, they own the Capitol,” she said. “They own the police. The police work for them and people like me have no right to try to elect a president because we can not elect the president. They choose the president. They own the president. They have the president “The White House owns them. They own this land.”
Police Chief Steven Sund also defends the reaction of his officers and takes the blame for the failure of security.
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“Once the breach of the Capitol building was inevitable, we prioritized lives over property and led people to safety,” he said in a statement. “Not a single member of Congress or their staff has been injured. Our officers have done their job. Our leadership has not.”
Police are awaiting a day of unrest at the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Associated Press)
Sund resigned from his post on Thursday, with effect from 16 January.
ABC News ‘anchors did not back down when a guest claimed that Black Live Matter protests were largely’ peaceful ‘, and the HuffPost declared in a headline:’ For the police, MAGA Insurrectionists were a threat. Black Lives Matter was. ‘
Members of both parties have questioned why the Capitol was so vulnerable to transgressions, but many are wary of blaming erroneous planning, not the response officials themselves.
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“It’s going to be very difficult for me not to embrace every Capitol police officer I drive through security or in the hallways,” Bailee Beshires, press assistant to Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Wrote Thursday. “Those men and women are heroes who deserve more than what happened to them yesterday.”
Sean Hannity said Thursday the offense exposes a “massive vulnerability” in security at the Capitol.
“We need to determine what went wrong at the U.S. Capitol, that’s our top priority,” the Hannity host said. “Americans rightly demand answers. What we all saw yesterday in the Capitol building can never happen again in this country. The building belongs to us the people. It’s our house and it’s broken, and it’s is within a few minutes are relatively easily violated … it’s inexplicable. ‘
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FOP leader Spencer, who said US Park Police supported the Capitol Police tactics, criticized the “reckless planning” by the Capitol Police management.
“It was clear that the management of the U.S. Capitol Police underestimated the risk of violence during the protest,” he said when the Park police officers arrived there, according to the examiner. “Despite the reckless planning by their management, and at great risk to their own personal safety, the Capitol police officers continued to serve with dignity and professionalism amid the overwhelming chaos and hostility.”
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In the disappointment of Wednesday, one riot was shot dead and Brian Sicknick, Capitol police officer, died from injuries sustained during the riot. Three others died during or before the riot of medical emergencies.
Brian Flood of Fox News contributed to this report.