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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 02:34 PM Jan 2021

New Warnings of Violence as Security Tightens for Inauguration

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials are vetting hundreds of potential airplane passengers and beefing up airport security as officials amplify warnings of violence before the presidential inauguration from extremists emboldened by the Capitol attack last week.

The Transportation Security Administration is increasing the number of federal marshals on flights and explosive-detection dogs at airports. Screening officers will be deployed to assist a militarized “green zone” in downtown Washington.

Federal officials say the security perimeter, which includes an increasing number of armed members of the National Guard, is necessary to prevent an attack from domestic extremists. Such groups “pose the most likely threat” to the inauguration, according to a joint threat assessment from the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security, which warned that attackers could target federal buildings and public officials in the days leading to the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president.

The extremists “remain a concern due to their ability to act with little to no warning, willingness to attack civilians and soft targets, and ability to inflict significant casualties with weapons that do not require specialized knowledge,” federal officials wrote in the bulletin obtained by The New York Times.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-warnings-of-violence-as-security-tightens-for-inauguration/ar-BB1cNrAr?li=BBnb7Kz

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New Warnings of Violence as Security Tightens for Inauguration (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 OP
Who could have ever imagined that the US Flag would be a weapon? Arne Jan 2021 #1
. dalton99a Jan 2021 #2
The original Proud Boy. Arne Jan 2021 #4
The "revolution" Pantagruel Jan 2021 #3
 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
3. The "revolution"
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 02:43 PM
Jan 2021

has reached the sound and fury stage. I expect it to exit with just whimpers by scattered crazies.
They're crawling back under their rocks as we clutch our pearls.

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