1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: This episode contains a violent language, swearing, and strong racial slurs. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: If you're not ready to hear that, or if you 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: have kids with you, maybe tune in another time. Wednesday, 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: January six started as just another day for me, any 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: other day. Meet Carlin Younger. She's the investment lead at 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: an obscure government agency called the First Responder Network Authority. 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: On January six, she was back in her Capitol Hill 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: apartment after the Christmas break, getting back to work and 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: sorting out life stuff. I had spilled wine on a 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: sweater during Christmas, even thought it was about time to 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: take care of that, and that's why during my lunch break, 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: I just went down to do laundry. I enter the 13 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: laundry room with a thousand other things on my mind. 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: And then as I exit the laundry room, there's a 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: back gate that I put my key in the gate. 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: It's an old building, so I have to lean against 17 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: it and turn that key to make sure that the 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: law engages. And as I turn away, something catches my eye. 19 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: It's a small device. It looks metallic, and I'm looking 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: at this and I'm seeing that there's some plastic bits too. 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: It's a pipe. It looks like six inches long, with 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: caps on both ends, with red and black wires all 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: tangled and clipped to the ends, and to what looks 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: like a kitchen timer. What Carlin is describing is almost 25 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: a cartoonish picture of a bomb. She rushes out to 26 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: the street and brings back a guard. And I was 27 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: afraid that maybe I was mistaken right, that this was 28 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: a joke, and I'm going to look silly. And the 29 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: guard he leans over and he takes a look at 30 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: the device, and he recoils immediately and says, holy sh it, 31 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: it's a bomb. Minutes later, the area is swarming with 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: police officers. The block is being cleared, Pedestrians are being 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: moved away. Many of the officers making the area safe 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: are from the Capitol Police, the police department charged with 35 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: keeping the US capital safe. They're being called out to 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: the bomb threat because Carlin's apartment and laundry room are 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: next to the r n C, or Republican National Committee, 38 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: which is just half a mile from the capital. As 39 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: officers descend on the RNC to clear the area in 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: case of a possible blast, the depleted forces on the 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: front line of the riot begin to falter. The line 42 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: is too thin. It just won't hold. The device that 43 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: Carlin Younger found near her apartment was disarmed before it 44 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: could wreak havoc on her apartment bill as was a 45 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: second device found near the headquarters of the Democratic National 46 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: Committee the r n C s opposite number. The authorities 47 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: haven't arrested anyone for planning the bombs. What they do 48 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: know is the devices distracted an appreciable amount of police 49 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: attention from the Capitol Building at a crucial time. A 50 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: time in the Capitol Police where all that stood between 51 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: democracy and disaster. This episode, I want to understand what 52 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,119 Speaker 1: happened at the Capitol through the eyes of the officers 53 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: tasked with protecting it. They've borne the trauma of the 54 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: big Lie, not only in the violence they experienced on 55 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: January six itself, but also and how they've been treated afterwards. 56 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: For all the cop worship the right wing media ecosystem 57 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: spouts every time there's a conversation about police brutality, after 58 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: the insurrection, the rights tune changed dramatically. We've followed how 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: the Stop the Steel narrative made its insidious way into 60 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: the political mainstream. Now its proponents have closed ranks to 61 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: discredit the officers who have spoken out about their experiences 62 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: that day. Then there's the question of the Capitol's top grass. 63 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: Many officers suffered and sacrificed on the ground that day, 64 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: but the Capitol Police has a budget of almost half 65 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: a billion dollars to protect just two square miles. How 66 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: could their initial efforts to contain the mob have failed 67 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: so bad. From the teams at Coop's own media, I 68 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and novel, This is The Assault on America 69 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: Episode six, Hugs and Kisses have reported for duty at 70 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: the Capitol as usual, early on the morn of January six. 71 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: This is Officer Harry Dunn speaking at a congressional investigation 72 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: into the Capital riot. Officer Done is a towering figure 73 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: six ft seven and broad shoulder, the sort of guy 74 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: you might want on your side and a riot, but 75 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: his strength couldn't protect him from the mob headed his 76 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: way on January six, and as his testimony makes clear, 77 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: he had no idea what was coming. We understood that 78 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,559 Speaker 1: the vote to certified President Biden's election will be taking 79 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,239 Speaker 1: place that day and protests might occur outside the Capitol, 80 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: but we expected any demonstrations to be peaceful expressions of 81 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: first amended freedoms, just like the scores of demonstrations we 82 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: had observed for many years. When Donald Trump's election win 83 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: was certified in two thousand seventeen, three protesters were arrested 84 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: after a peaceful demonstration, but nothing more than that. Officer 85 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: Don's thirteen years of experience led him to expect a 86 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: long day, but a routine one, a couple of rest, 87 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: name calling, you know, unfriendly people, but nowhere near the 88 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: level of violence or even close to it like that 89 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,559 Speaker 1: we experienced. He took up his position on the east 90 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: front of the Capitol, on the steps up to the 91 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: Senate Chamber. As the morning progressed, I did not see 92 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: or hear anything that gave me calls for alarm. But 93 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: around ten fifty six am, I received a text message 94 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 1: from a friend forwarding a screenshot of what appeared to 95 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: be the potential plan of action. The screenshot board the 96 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: caption January six rally point Lincoln Park and said the 97 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: objective was the Capitol for officers done. This was the 98 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: first warning sign that something was wrong. It was just 99 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: one text message, but it was unusually precise. It's said, 100 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: amongst other things, that Trump has given us marching orders 101 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: and to keep your guns hidden. It urged people to 102 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: bring your trauma kits and gas masks to link up 103 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: early in the day in six to twelve man teams. 104 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: It indicated there would be time to arm up. Officer 105 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: Dunne says that he had not been informed of any 106 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: such planning by his superiors in the Capitol Police. He 107 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: didn't know, for instance, that the FBI had circulated a 108 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: memo on the fifth of January warning of possible violence 109 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: planned for that day. He didn't know that the FBI 110 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: Washington Field office had received a tip off from a 111 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: local historian who runs a website dedicated to the network 112 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: of tunnels underneath the Capitol. The website had been flooded 113 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: with visitors from across the country in recent weeks, most 114 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: of them reaching it from anonymous message boards and forums, 115 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: the kind of places filled with far right hate and 116 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. All officers done new, he says, was what 117 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: his phone was telling him. Whenever see the text messages, 118 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: it made the hairs on my neck rise. Since our 119 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: chain of command had not told us to prepare for 120 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: any of these levels of violence, I was just like, okay, 121 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: whatever they've been here. But as the day wore on 122 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: officer dones, concerns only grew. From his vantage point on 123 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: the east front, he could see a crowd growing in 124 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: size and is more people flooded towards the Capitol. The 125 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: voices crackling through on his radio confirmed what his eyes 126 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: were telling him were not fifty hill on the west. 127 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: The situation was getting out of control. All now warned 128 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: what this well perfect play riots, declaring it a riot, 129 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: give that we're gonna have the red doctor at least 130 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: this alf we go what we have? Oh hard, hold hard, 131 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: It ain't back back up back in the agree and 132 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: all need to be good. You're gonna change you n 133 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: now it was obvious that there was a direct threat 134 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: to the Capitol, and quickly put on a steel chest 135 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: plate which weighs proximately twenty pounds, and carrying my M 136 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: four rifles, sprinting around the north side of the Capitol 137 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: to the west terrace and the railing of the inaugural stage, 138 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: where I had a broad view of what was going on. 139 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: I was stunned by what I saw and what seemed 140 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: like a sea of people. Capitol police officers in Metropolitan 141 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: Police Officers mp D were engaged in desperate hand to 142 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: hand fighting with rioters across the West Lawn. I witnessed 143 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: the rioters using all kinds of weapons against officers, including flagpoles, 144 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: metal bike racks that they had torn apart, and various 145 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: kind of projectiles. Officers were being bloodied in the fighting, 146 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: Many were screaming, and many were blinded and coughing from 147 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: chemical irritants being spread in their faces. The chemical irritants 148 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: are probably why the voices on the radio call for DSL, 149 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: which we think is the team that handles chemical munitions. 150 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: But the most distressing radio call, the one every Capitol 151 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: police officer fears was still to come. I heard attention, 152 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: all units has been breached. The capital has been reached. 153 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: When the rioters enter the capital, the worst fears of 154 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: the police are realized. An angry mob, determined to find 155 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: lawmakers from both parties is now loose in the building. 156 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: The Capitol police are in an impossible position. The first 157 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: kind of big ohst Ship moment was this voice that 158 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: comes on on the loudspeaker. There's a security alert warning 159 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: people to stay away from windows and doors from you know, 160 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Oh, that's I've never heard that before. Igor 161 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: Bobbic is a senior politics reporter for the Huffington's Post. 162 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: Like officer Harry Dunn, he had been expecting a routine 163 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: day at work on January six. You know, nothing really 164 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: goes wrong. Typically when members of Congress vote to certify 165 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: presidential election results, It's been done for hundreds and hundreds 166 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: of years. When igors not roaming the building trying to 167 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: get quotes from lawmakers, he's usually typing out stories in 168 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: a small press office above the Senate Chamber. That's where 169 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,119 Speaker 1: he was on January six when he began to realize 170 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: that this might not be a typical vote certification. I 171 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: remember I was up above the Senate Chamber looking down 172 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: through these little little windows to the ground of the 173 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: Capitol right outside, and I remember seeing Trump supporters waving 174 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: flags way way, way too close to the building. Was 175 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: very unusual. They were looking up at me, they saw me, 176 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: and I was looking down at them and they were 177 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: waving to me, and I was like, wow, they're so close. 178 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: They can even see me, you know. I was taking 179 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: photos of them, they were taking photos of me, and 180 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: it was like, this is strange. Are It was bizarre? 181 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: But Igor still had no notion of how serious the 182 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:11,359 Speaker 1: situation was becoming. These warnings are going off progressively more concerning, 183 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: But I'm still watching the debate going on in the Senate. 184 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: So they have counterproposed just ignoring the lingering questions. We 185 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: need to do something. The final warning, the one that 186 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,599 Speaker 1: hits home for Igor, comes from the Senate chamber itself, 187 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: and I will stand in recess until the call of 188 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: the chair who fosters thank you. So as soon as 189 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: I heard those words, I had gotten up and I 190 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: started running down these these steps to figure out what 191 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: the hell is going on, because there's only a couple 192 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: of reasons why they would do this. One of those reasons, 193 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: of course, is that intruders are now inside the building. 194 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: As Igor runs down the stairs to find out what's happening, 195 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: he hears angry voices echoing up the marble stairwell. He 196 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: starts filming on his phone as he runs, and immediately 197 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: stumbles into a now famous scene. As I round the 198 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: corner and counter a loane black police officer trying to 199 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: hold back a mob of fifteen or twenty or so 200 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: people who have gotten into the building. You might remember 201 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: this image a black officer standing before a group of 202 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: angry capital invaders who looked like they might rush him 203 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: at any moment. His left arm is outstretched and he's 204 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: pointing at the rioters, signaling for them to turn around 205 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: and leave. This loan officer is an Army veteran named 206 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: Eugene Goodman. You see him pick up a baton that 207 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: he had dropped and go back and try to kind 208 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: of wave it at them to get him to stay back, 209 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: and they're clearly refusing to listen. The rioters are shouting 210 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: at Officer Goodman, getting in his face, pressuring him to 211 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: let them passed. There's a lead rioter there in the 212 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: video that you can see. He's got a beanie and 213 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: a beard who kind of takes charge and starts menacing 214 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: this officer and was, you know, shaking his head. No way, 215 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: I'm not leaving like you. You better do something to 216 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: stop me. That's going to be burned in my head 217 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: because the way he was doing this. This man in 218 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: the beanie, who was also wearing a black quan on 219 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: shirt over his gray hoodie, is by far the most 220 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: aggressive in the crowd. We now know that he's an 221 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: Iowa called Douglas Austin Jensen. We also know curiously that 222 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: Mr Jensen has no idea which building he's currently storming. 223 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: Here's a clip that Jensen filmed of himself earlier in 224 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: the day. He's standing outside the Capitol Building with his 225 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: hand pressed against the wall. This is me such the 226 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: fucking White House. This is why we're here. Douglas Jensen's 227 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: videos for January six contain multiple references to the White House. 228 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: So you know, as you can't see the videos, I'll 229 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: just be absolutely clear. He's not at the White House. 230 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: He's at the Capitol. That's what would go. Actually it isn't, 231 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: but I digress. Faced with this mob, at least one 232 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: of whom is in the wrong building, Officer Goodman realizes 233 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: that he can't hold them back alone. You sort of 234 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: see Officer Goodman retreating up the back of the steps, 235 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: speaking into his radio on his shoulder. You know, he's screaming, 236 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: second floor, second floor, we have a breach. I'm retreating 237 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: back with him. As we go back up the steps 238 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: to the second floor, where you see Goodman kind of 239 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: look left and make sure that the nearest entrance to 240 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: the Senate Chamber is guarded or not, and then you 241 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: see him pull away the mob in the opposite direction 242 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: towards the backup m This is a crucial moment. At 243 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: the top of the stairs, with a column of hyped 244 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: up rioters bearing down on him, Officer Goodman has to 245 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: make a split second decision. Does he go right or left? 246 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: In the video you see his head rapidly turned to 247 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: the left and looked down the corridor. The door to 248 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: the Senate Chamber appears to be unguarded, so he acts. 249 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: Officer Goodman pushes Douglas Jensen, the confused, aggressive rioter, now 250 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: right in Goodman's face. Jensen, pushed, seems disoriented for just 251 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 1: a second. Goodman retreats to the right, away from the chamber. 252 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: Jensen seems to recover and follows Goodman. Miraculously. The column 253 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: of rioters behind do the same, following Jensen and the 254 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,239 Speaker 1: retreating Officer Goodman moving away from the senators who are 255 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: mere meters away. This critical fast thinking by him might 256 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: have been the difference between them getting into the Senate 257 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: chamber itself because of that. At that moment, I don't 258 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: believe it was secured the door with you know, all 259 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: this senitors and all the other staff inside. If the 260 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: rioters had broken into the Senate chamber at that point, 261 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: whilst many of their most hated targets were still inside. 262 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: It's difficult to believe that the meeting would have been 263 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: a peaceful one. Thankfully, Officer Goodman appears to have bought 264 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: just enough time for the safe evacuation of the Senate. 265 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: He's a remarkable guy. All he's wanted to do ever 266 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: since was go back to work. You know, he's keep 267 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 1: your head down kind of guy who really shuns away 268 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: from the limelight. He's still there every day right now. 269 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: I running into him in the halls and we, you know, 270 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: we kind of share this this moment, this crazy moment together, 271 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: and every time I see him and every time he 272 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: sees me were I'm sure it runs through his mind 273 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: as well. When watching the video of Eugene Goodman, it's 274 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: hard not to be struck by the image of a 275 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: white mob chasing a black man through the halls of 276 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: the nation's capital. And the truth is that the day 277 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: was just littered with racist symbols, from Confederate flags to 278 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: Peppy the Frog images to just straight up newses. There 279 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: was even a guy in a Camp Auschwitz hoodie, and 280 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: as you'd expect, the police on the front lines bore 281 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: the brunt of the crowds over racism. Officer Harry Dunn 282 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: from earlier in the episode was subjected to a torrent 283 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: of racial abuse. His story is not an easy listen. 284 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: It begins in the heart of the capital. After Officer 285 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: Done has been fighting on the front line. I was 286 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: physically exhausted and it was hard to breathe and to 287 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: see because of all the chemical spray in the air. 288 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: More and more insurrectionists were pouring into the area by 289 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: the Speaker's lobby near the road Sundam and some wearing 290 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: Maga hats and shirts that said Trump. I told him 291 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: to just leave the Capitol, and in response they yelled, no, man, 292 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: this is our house. President Trump invited us here. We're 293 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: here to stop to steal. Joe Biden is not the president. 294 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: Nobody voted for Joe Biden. Officer Donne decided to reply 295 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: to the rioters directly. I responded, well, I voted for 296 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Does my vote not count? Am I nobody? 297 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: Officer Donn's response was met with slurs and abuse from 298 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: the crowd. One woman in a pink Maga shirt yelled, 299 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: do you hear that? Guys? This nigger voted for Joe Biden. 300 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: Then the crowd, perhaps around twenty people joined in screaming, boom, 301 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: fucking nigger. No one had ever ever called me a nigger. 302 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: While wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police officer. Officer 303 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: Donne spent hours fighting rioters on January six. He choked 304 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: through chemical irritants and wiped blood from his knuckles, and 305 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: continued to defend the capital. But when the violence was 306 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: finally over, it was the racial abuse that stayed with him. 307 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: Once the building was cleared, I went to the rotunda 308 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,479 Speaker 1: to recover with other officers and share our experiences from 309 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: what happened that afternoon. I sat down on the bench 310 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: in the rotunda with a friend of mine who was 311 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: also a black Capitol Police officer, and told him about 312 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: the racial slurs I endured. I became very emotional and 313 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: began yelling, how the blank could something like this happen? 314 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: Is this America? I began sobbing. Officers came over to 315 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: console me. In the days following the siege, Officer Done 316 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: spoke to more friends of his other officers who served 317 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: on January six about their experiences. He discovered that many 318 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: of them had their own stories of racial abuse to share. 319 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: One officer told me he had never and then his 320 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,479 Speaker 1: his entire forty years of life been called a nigger 321 00:21:54,600 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: to his face, and that streak ended on January six. Another, 322 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: a black officer, later told me he had been confronted 323 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: by insurrections in the capitol who told him puts her 324 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: gun down, and we'll show you what kind of nigger 325 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: you really are. I told you this is not easy listening, 326 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: and it's not easy to tell either. Officers like Harry 327 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 1: Dunn have paid a price for speaking out about what 328 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: they went through during the riot. On July, Officer Dunn 329 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: was one of four officers who stepped onto the global 330 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: stage to testify about the insurrection. They were speaking before 331 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: the House Select Committee charged with investigating the riot. Also 332 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: testifying that day was Sergeant Acalino Ganell. The writers called 333 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: me trader, a disgrace and shouted that I an army veteran. 334 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: A police officer along with him was Officer Daniel Hodges. 335 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: One man tried and failed to build a rapport with me, 336 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: shouting are you my brother? Another takes a different tax, 337 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: shouting you will die on your knees, and the fourth 338 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: officer who testified was Officer Michael Phenone, a plain clothes 339 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: officer who's self deployed to help defend the Capital. I 340 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: was electrocuted again and again and again with a taser. 341 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: I'm sure I was screaming, but I don't think I 342 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 1: could even hear my own voice. It's no small feed 343 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: for these men to stick their head above the parapet 344 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: and give their testimony on live television. For one thing, 345 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: they could be certain that the right wing media machine 346 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: would shoot them out, and indeed it did. And for 347 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: best performance in an action role, the winner is Michael Phenone. 348 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: Here's Laura Ingram on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News handing out 349 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: acting awards to the officers for their testimony before the 350 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: Senate hearing. The award for blatant use of partisan politics 351 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: when facts fail, the angle award goes to Capitol Police 352 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: officer Harry Dunn. This type of coverage is part of 353 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: a wider campaign to belittle those who speak out and 354 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: underplay the violence of the riot. Donald Trump himself referred 355 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: to the crowd as being full of love, hugs and kisses, 356 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: kissing the guard. Some politicians made the point that rioters 357 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: stayed within the rope lines and the rotenday between the 358 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 1: stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures, or that the 359 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: siege was no different from any other sight seeing trip. 360 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: You would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. 361 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: Claims like this are ludicrous, but they have consequences. Here's 362 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: a voicemail that officer Michael Finnone received on his personal 363 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: cell while he was literally in the act of giving 364 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: his testimony. You're so fully hit your little bagge bucker, 365 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: You're alive. Fuck why would they would have killed all 366 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: you gum bag. It might be tempting to write the 367 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: caller office mentally unwell, but the sad fact is that 368 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: everything he said was perfectly sensible from the standpoint of 369 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: someone who regularly consumes even mainstream right wing media today. 370 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: The rhetoric of popular figures with massive platforms was almost 371 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: certainly a major factor in driving him to make this call. 372 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 1: Don't the election from Trump and you know that you've 373 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: come back combe it hit at you more. Faced with 374 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: messages like this from the public and little support from 375 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: the Republican lawmakers whose lives they protect, some Capital police 376 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: officers feel betrayed by the political class. Sergeant Aquilino Gannell 377 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic when 378 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: he was twelve. He enlisted in the U. S Military 379 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: at the age of twenty and deployed to Iraq in 380 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: two thousand three. Sergeant Gannell had a stark message for 381 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: Republican lawmakers attempting to discredit him and his fellow officers. 382 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: Why would I risk my life for them when they 383 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: don't even care. They don't care what happened to the public. 384 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: They don't care what happened to the officers, or they 385 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 1: care is their job their position. They don't have the 386 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: courage to put their job on the line. That's not 387 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 1: putting the country first. We are willing to risk our 388 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: life police, make it worth it. The election results were 389 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: officially certified by Vice President Mike Pence at three forty 390 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: two am on January seven, after a brutal punishing day. 391 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,479 Speaker 1: Democracy was still technically intact, but this victory came at 392 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: a significant cost. Around a hundred and forty officers have 393 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: reported injuries from January six, and while the psychological toll 394 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: can only be guessed at, we do know that four 395 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: officers who defended the capital have since taken their own lives. 396 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,439 Speaker 1: We've spent a lot of this series analyzing the forces 397 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: that drove the rioters to the Capital. Obviously these stopped 398 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: the steel campaign and its enablers are where the final 399 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: buck stops when it comes to people who endangered the 400 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: lives of Capital police officers. But that's not the own 401 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: factor that made January six such a disaster. Once the 402 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: mob reached the Capitol walls, it is staggering how quickly 403 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: they were able to breach the defenses of the US 404 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: government's epicenter. How did the capital security strategy fail so badly? 405 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: I had the television on. I was sitting in Chicago 406 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: watching it with my wife on January six. Terry Gainer 407 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: was transfixed by the news footage, like the rest of us. 408 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: But unlike the rest of US, Terry isn't just an 409 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: armchair expert. I turned to my wife and I said, 410 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: I don't see very many police officers on the East Front. 411 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: He knows more than a little about the decisions that 412 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: go into insurrection. Proving the US Capital January six from 413 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: a policing point of view, was the joint responsibility of 414 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: the U S Capitol Police, which I once commanded the 415 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 1: Sergeant of Arms office, which I once led, and the 416 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: rescue in large part by the atropal and Police Department 417 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: of Washington, where I served as the head of Operations. 418 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: So as Terry watched the riot escalate, this attack felt personal. 419 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: When you saw them move up where the inauguration platform 420 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: was being breached on the West Front was kind of 421 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: a oh my god moment. I felt sick to my 422 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,400 Speaker 1: stomach that this was going to happen, because again, I 423 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: spent twelve years of my life They're trying to prevent 424 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: this type of thing, and it was heart crushing. A 425 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: raging fist fight between rioters and officers and the Capitol 426 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: building itself has got to be close to the worst 427 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: day possible for the Capitol Police's top brass. Days after 428 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: January six, the three highest ranking officials in the Capital 429 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: security team all resigned, the chief of the Capitol Police 430 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: and the Sergeants at Arms for the House and the Senate. 431 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: Since then, a task force of mostly ex law enforcement 432 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: officials carried out a security review and recommended a slew 433 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: of changes at the Capitol. Terry was on that panel. 434 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: He knows what resources are available at the Capitol, how 435 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: decisions getting made there and what it feels like to 436 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: be responsible for the officers who risked their lives. On 437 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: January six, I asked him what went wrong? It clearly 438 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: was a breakdown and sharing intelligence. While the Capitol Police 439 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: has an intelligence section, they're really relying on intelligence being 440 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: gathered by the FBI and all the other numbered agencies 441 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: in the United States, which is also getting information from 442 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: across the globe, and there wasn't enough sharing of that, 443 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: and so that was a breakdown, the same damn way 444 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: we had a breakdown before nine eleven, where everybody missed 445 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: some of the intelligence of what ben Laden was going 446 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: to do. Then there's the issue of numbers. The Official 447 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: Security Review found that the Capitol Police were understaffed, insufficiently equipped, 448 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: and inadequately trained to cope with the insurrection. It recommended 449 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: hiring another eight hundred and fifty four officers immediately, bringing 450 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: the total number up to three thousand or so. The 451 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: Capitol Police officers had some two to two hundred and 452 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: fifty officers every day out because of COVID or quarantining. 453 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: That meant for most of the year, officers were working 454 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week. 455 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: And frankly they were exhausted, so what about backup? The 456 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: National Guard have gotten a lot of heat for not 457 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: providing reinforcements quickly enough. On January six, Stephens sunned, the 458 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: then chief of the Capitol Police, says that he did 459 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: try to call in the National Guard two or three 460 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: days before January six. It seems that the answer was no. 461 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: The House Sergeant of Arms and Senate Sergeant of Arms 462 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: and essence said the members didn't like the optics of that, 463 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: and when the Guard were finally called in on January 464 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: six itself, they didn't turn up until three hours later. 465 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: Terry pins the blame for that one on a different 466 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: protest altogether. On June one, pr mastermind Donald Trump made 467 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: headlines across the nation when he summoned the National Guard 468 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,719 Speaker 1: to blast a gathering of Black Lives Matter protesters with 469 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: tear gas and rubber bullets in Lafayette Square. Then he 470 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: held a photo shoot with a bible in the vacated square. 471 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: The police were criticized heavily for their brutality that day. 472 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: That left a negative taste in the military's mind, the 473 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: local police, the public. That just was terrible situation. And 474 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: now you get into January six, and everybody's a little 475 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: reticent about being drawn into the anigans of the president 476 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: and the way he manages things. So the military, having 477 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: been burned in June of that year, said Okay, we're 478 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: gonna set up a special process for the National Guard. 479 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: If you want to use the National Guard in the 480 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: District of Columbia, you have to go through the Secretary 481 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: of the Army to the Secretary of Defense. In essence, 482 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: more bureaucracy, And when the call came on January six, 483 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: the response was delayed by bureaucratic fretting. Meanwhile, the capital 484 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: was falling. What was very clear was the Army had 485 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: set up a system that would protect itself from getting 486 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: sucked in to the president's politics, but did not help 487 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: when the Capitol Police and the members of Congress needed 488 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: to help. Most the senior officials in charge of security 489 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: on January six paid for these failures with their jobs, 490 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: but the fact that the capital was blindsided on January 491 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: six wasn't us down to them. Terry believes that it's 492 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: evidence of a longer term failure of preparedness. I actually 493 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: end up blaming myself, is a former chief of the 494 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: Capitol Police. Or is the former Senate Sergeant of Arms 495 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: or the people who followed me that We didn't think 496 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: and say, what happens if five thousand people attacked the capital. 497 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,239 Speaker 1: What happens if a president of the United States who 498 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: does nothing but really so hate and discontent for four 499 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: years can get a group of citizens to get so 500 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: involved with themselves today to act like mad dogs. We 501 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: didn't train for that. I never thought that could happen. 502 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: Quite frankly, we never thought someone would get inside. Within 503 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: a month of the Capital riott, five US Capitol Police 504 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: officers were under investigation for their actions. On January six, 505 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: X had been suspended with pay. Some of these were 506 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: the men you saw in viral videos shaking hands with rioters. 507 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,720 Speaker 1: A number of those folks were surely people whose courage 508 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: simply failed in the face of a vicious mob. Others 509 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: truly sympathized with that mob's aims. On October one, US 510 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: Capitol Police officer Michael Riley was arrested for obstruction of justice. 511 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: He had allegedly told a person criminally charged for their 512 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,240 Speaker 1: participation in the riot to delete incriminating Facebook posts. Officer 513 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: Riley is alleged to have deleted posts of his own 514 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: that we're incriminating as well. It's going to be some 515 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: time before we know the full extent to which a 516 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: number of Capitol Police officers betrayed their oaths and comrades 517 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: out of sympathy for an insurrection. But Officer Riley and 518 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: the dozens of other police who participated directly in January 519 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: six are evidence of a deep rot at the heart 520 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: of American law enforcement. Terry Gaynor believes more training and 521 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: equipment and manpower might have prevented the Capital riot. That 522 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: may be true, but the Capitol Police budget in twenty 523 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: twenty was more than four hundred and sixty million dollars. 524 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,280 Speaker 1: That's nearly twice the budget of the Portland Police Force, 525 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: Whoife personally watched dispersed crowds of thousands with much more 526 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,359 Speaker 1: violence than was ever used on the Capital rioters. I've 527 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: no doubt that the Capitol Police could have dispersed that 528 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 1: crowd with the equipment in their inventory, had the threat 529 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,359 Speaker 1: indicators before January sixth been taken seriously. When I think 530 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,240 Speaker 1: about this, my mind is inevitably drawn to the story 531 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: of the Antifa bus in Northern California. The gist of 532 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: it is that viral Facebook rumors led police in the 533 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: summer of twenty to believe that a bus full of 534 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,320 Speaker 1: violent Antifa rioters was heading down the coast from Oregon 535 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 1: to burn Towns in rural California. Police officers and even 536 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: air assets were dispersed to search for the bus for days. 537 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: These completely unfounded rumors were taken more seriously than tens 538 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: of thousands of posts by Trump supporters openly declaring their 539 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 1: intent to attack the US capital and overturn a democratic election. 540 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: When a left wing activist from Florida, Daniel Baker, made 541 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 1: several vague posts about trying to gather armed leftists together 542 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:27,240 Speaker 1: to defend against an insurrection after January six, he was arrested, charged, 543 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 1: and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. 544 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: On November four, prosecutors did recommend to three and a 545 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: half year sentence for insurrectionist Scott Fairlam, who punched a 546 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: police officer and had two previous convictions for assault. This 547 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: is seen as equivalent to the crimes of a leftist 548 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 1: who assaulted no one and has no criminal record, but 549 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 1: who made a dumb post on the Internet. The bravery 550 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,879 Speaker 1: of officers Phinone Goodman and Gunnell cannot and will never 551 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: make up for the fact that law enforcement across the 552 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 1: United States has a systemic is that favors anti democratic 553 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: far right militants. January six was the product of years 554 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: of neglect and refusal by law enforcement to take right 555 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: wing extremism seriously, and in the wake of the Capital riot, 556 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 1: there is absolutely no evidence that this situation has changed. 557 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 1: In the next episode, we'll talk more about the cops 558 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: at the Capitol on January six, who failed to quit 559 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: themselves with the courage of Harry Dunn or Eugene Goodman. 560 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: This is the story of the cops on the wrong 561 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: side of the fight. Of course, I bought a ga 562 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: and earlier this year, and I put cameras around my house. 563 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: Join me for episode seven, The Lost Cause.