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  • the chief of police responsible for defending the US capital will resign, local media reported on Thursday, a day after his force came under heavy criticism for failing to hold back an angry mob of Trump supporters who stormed the heart of US government on Wednesday and wrecked havoc as lawmakers hidden side Late on Thursday, police said one officer who confronted the mob had died of his injuries, bringing the death toll from the attack 25 The rioters have been trying to disrupt the certification of President elect Joe Biden's victory, but there was a failure.

  • News off Capitol Police chief Stephen Son's decision to resign came just hours after the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, called for him to go.

  • But she didn't stop there.

  • That goes to the FBI.

  • What was what was the shortcoming in their intelligence that they provided it goes to the Department of Defense?

  • How long did it take for them to respond or anticipate the need for the National Guard?

  • Wednesday's events were preceded by weeks of online threats that the protests could descend into violence.

  • Many you traveled to the capital shared plans using websites such as Parlor, a Twitter like service that has attracted right wing extremist groups.

  • Some use is discussed ways to illegally sneak guns into Washington starting from January.

  • The first, there were nearly 1500 posts on Twitter from accounts related to the Cuban on conspiracy theory movement that mentioned the rally and contained references to violence, according to a former intelligence official who monitors extremists on social media.

  • These included posts urging so called patriots to rise up.

  • Despite those rumblings of danger, the Capitol police force did not request advance help from other federal agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security, to secure the building, according Toa, one senior official on National Guard.

  • Reinforcements summoned by the city's mayor were not mobilized until more than an hour after protesters had first breached the barricades.

  • In stark contrast, those agencies were aggressively deployed by the Trump administration during last summer's protests against police brutality in Washington and across the U.

the chief of police responsible for defending the US capital will resign, local media reported on Thursday, a day after his force came under heavy criticism for failing to hold back an angry mob of Trump supporters who stormed the heart of US government on Wednesday and wrecked havoc as lawmakers hidden side Late on Thursday, police said one officer who confronted the mob had died of his injuries, bringing the death toll from the attack 25 The rioters have been trying to disrupt the certification of President elect Joe Biden's victory, but there was a failure.

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