The AP Interview: Capitol Police chief sees rising threats
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) The newly installed chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says the force, still struggling six months after an insurrection that left its officers battled, bloodied and bruised, cannot afford to be complacent. The risk to lawmakers is higher than ever. And the threat from lone-wolf attackers is only growing.
In an interview with The Associated Press, J. Thomas Manger said his force is seeing a historically high number of threats against lawmakers, thousands more than just a few years ago. He predicts authorities will respond to close to 9,000 threats against members of Congress in 2021 more than 4,100 had been reported from January to March.
We have never had the level of threats against members of Congress that were seeing today, Manger said. Clearly, weve got a bigger job in terms of the protection aspect of our responsibilities, weve got a bigger job than we used to.
Manger touted changes that have been made in intelligence gathering after the department was widely criticized for being woefully underprepared to fend off a mob of insurrectionists in January. Officials had compiled intelligence showing white supremacists and other extremists were likely to assemble in Washington on Jan. 6 and that violent disruptions were possible. Police officers were brutally beaten in the insurrection. Five people died.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,996 posts)They don't care about anybody or anything, except maybe family members. But their ideology trumps reason even there and they don't mask or vax.
Terrorists don't care who gets in the way. They want them all dead.
sarchasm
(1,012 posts)what do these assassinations have in common?
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Jesus Christ on a pop cycle stick, you had a woman threaten to Shoot the Speaker of the House on tape after breaking into the building through a window and nothing is being done about it. Stop wasting your time and tax dollars looking into these threats. Nothing will be done about them.