Capitol Police leadership 'betrayed' officers on Jan. 6, union official says
By Mychael Schnell - 02/08/22 04:48 PM EST
A top officers' union official says U.S. Capitol Police leadership “betrayed” its force on Jan. 6, 2021, when they defended the building from a mob of Trump supporters seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
Jim Pasco — the executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, a union that includes U.S. Capitol Police officers — told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast that officers dispatched to defend the Capitol that day were not prepared when it came to equipment or information needed manage the “overwhelming and totally hostile force” they were met with.
“Those officers out there were betrayed on a number of levels,” Pasco said.
“They were betrayed by their leadership on that day, because they were sent out ... unprepared and unknowing of the level of force and weren’t prepared in terms of the equipment that they went out with and the strategies that they employed to deal with the overwhelming and totally hostile force that addressed them,” he added, Yahoo reported Tuesday.
The Hill has reached out to the Capitol Police for comment.
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