Capitol Police Misled Public, Former Lieutenant Says
Forewarned but undermanned and ill-equipped to handle expected numbers and Nutty Nan's refusal for reinforcements . . .She wanted this to get out of hand.
(Republican Insider) – You might think that Nancy Pelosi’s sham Jan. 6 committee would have wanted to interview former US Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson, who was assigned to the post of routine operations commander at the Capitol that fateful day, but you’d be wrong.
The partisan show committee wasn’t interested in what the 23-year veteran of the Capitol Police had to say. The likely reason for that is Johnson was being honest about his experience and the truth was never what the panel was created to find.
During an interview with Mike Howell, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, Johnson recounted how the day unfolded, going from what he thought was going to be a normal “easy” day to complete chaos and obvious unpreparedness.
During the interview he slammed Capitol Police over poor leadership on Jan. 6 when the large crowd of Trump supporters flooded into the Capitol.
Johnson, now resigned from the force, said he would give Capitol Police leadership a grade of “an F or a zero” for preparedness and manpower. He further suggested that perhaps the reason for the poor management was that “somebody wanted this to happen.”
He stressed the importance of further investigation into how the events of Jan. 6 transpired but also, more importantly, the reason for the bad management which he says resulted in understaffing and a poorly executed evacuation effort.
“My assignment that day was routine operations commander of the Capitol …,” Johnson explained to Howell. “That meant that I didn’t have to deal with any of the demonstrations. So that made me happy. So I figured it would be an easy day for me.”
Police supervisors didn’t convey a sense of being on alert, Johnson stated.
“It was pretty much a normal morning, nothing out of the ordinary. I didn’t get any morning briefings from my supervisors when I got there,” he divulged.
By that afternoon, however, things had changed dramatically with the Capitol being overrun by protesters. The vast majority of which were peaceful.
During the incursion Johnson had real fears. It was likely a very precarious situation for law enforcement especially being completely understaffed and unprepared. He recalled calling his wife, “I said, I don’t know if I’m gonna make it out of this,” adding that he loved her and their daughter. “And I said goodbye.”
Johnson says he voted for Biden in 2020 after voting for Trump in 2016. He became known after video surfaced of him in his Capitol Police uniform donning a red “Make America Great Again” hat. He has explained he wore the hat in order to “stay safe” while navigating the crowd of Trump supporters. It was that decision that ultimately led to his resignation.
Johnson asserted that he would like to see Congress investigate the preparedness and response of Capitol Police that day.
“There was no real investigation done to actually examine the faults of leadership on that day,” Johnson noted before calling for a full investigation so that Americans may know all the facts.
“If you don’t fully investigate it, you’re still going to have the wedge between the Left and the Right because at the end of the day, the Left and the Right, we have to come together to solve the problems of the United States,” he remarked.
We all know why there was no effort to ensure the Capitol Police were properly equipped to handle any potential threats and it was deliberate. Johnson contends that had supervisors actually acted on information they had been given, regarding evacuating lawmakers and staff, “Ashli Babbitt would be home right now with her family.”
Babbitt, a name rarely mentioned by those on the left, was an Air Force veteran and Trump supporter who was shot and killed during the chaos in the Capitol building.
Johnson concludes the overarching issue was a lack of officers that day with “plus or minus 200 officers” on duty working the day shift. He pointed out that Capitol Police leaders have revealed there were 1,400 officers on duty at the Capitol but Johnson disputes that figure.
“When they used that number of 1,400 people, they were using the number of everybody that showed up for work that day,” Johnson declared in the interview, adding, “That was almost a misleading number, because they would’ve counted officers assigned to the library division, House division, patrol division, who would never even have came over to the Capitol. … I’m 99.9% sure they counted all the midnight officers on every single part of the Hill. They needed that number inflated as much as they could. So, they didn’t give an accurate depiction of the manpower we actually had on the Hill that day.”
It’s no wonder Johnson was never called by the Jan. 6 committee. His story doesn’t support the narrative they were desperate to push.
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