This. Is. Horrifying.

Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control

When I was Assembly presiding officer I worked closely w/our sergeant at arms. And when I introduced the bill to end Open Carry I had to travel with armed escorts to public events. There is no excuse for this type of breakdown of security in a professional law-enforcement body
This reminds me of an event in 2017 #ProudBoys began harassing attendees at an event in #SanDiego at the @SanDiegoCounty Admin Bldg. Deputies stood & watched so I called @SDSheriff Bill Gore on his cellphone & asked him: Why are your Deputies letting Proud Boys incite fights? 3/
I joined w/event organizers to meet w/@SDSheriff Gore in August re:this event. We also reported it to #CLERB.

A few days later: Heather Peyer was run over & killed by a violent white nationalist in Charlottesville & the #SanDiego #ProudBoys were arrested... in Berkeley 4/
It didn't stop them: They organized a "Pizza Party" at Chicano Park that required @sandiegoPD response. They put out invitations that used the @SDSheriff address as their own & called themselves "Border Patriots"

In other words: they've been hiding in plain sight for years 5/
They weren't done: a few months later they joined disgraced/pardoned Rep. #DuncanHunter at Otay Mesa & attacked counter-protesters as- once again- @SDSheriff Deputies stood back and watched the mayhem & violences 6/
These are increasingly violent white supremacists- threatening & engaging in confrontations w/people. @SDSheriff Deputies stood & watched them harass & attack people

Those of us in #SanDiego have been watching for 3.5 years & are tired of asking law enforcement to protect us 7/
It's time for elected officials to step up & stop the violence. The question is: will they stand up for people- or let @SanDiegoPD & @SDSheriff continue to ignore local, violent #ProudBoys?

@SupFletcher @SupNoraVargas @JoelAndersonCA @lawsonremer @CMJenCampbell @ToddGloria 8/
FYI local journalists- just in case you'd like to connect the dots btwn local #ProudBoys, lack of LEO response for years & what happened this week in DC 9/

@KenStoneMedia @SDuncovered @SDUTmcdonald @Presspasslc @LisaHalverstadt @KPBSnews @CarloNews8 @ArtieNBCSD @LaPrensaSD
Another impediment to change: campaign money

Police unions give money to #SanDiego candidates.
Once elected- they increase LEO salaries & budgets

Locally, @LorenaAD80 was the top recipient of #lapd money among California legislators: $30,000 in a few days in 2019. 10/

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Labour Grandees are listed in Sir Keir Starmer's colleague Jeffrey Epstein's ''Little Black Book''; Blair, Mandelson and Alastair Campbell. COINCIDENTLY, Keir Starmer and some of the same people have connections to ANOTHER of the worlds most prolific peadophiles. #StarmerOut


Starmer failed to bring charges against Jimmy Savile for paedophilia. The decision was made despite the Crown Prosecution Service receiving substantial evidence of his crimes from witnesses and victims several years before Savile died in 2011. #StarmerOut
https://t.co/PNyX5uSAkw


With a past like hers, Margaret Hodge might show a bit more humility.
In the Eighties Hodge was aware of previous child sex abuse in the care homes for which she was responsible, and did nothing about it. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut

As leader of Islington Council, a post she held from 1982-92, Margaret Hodge was aware of previous, horrendous child sex abuse in the care homes for which she was responsible, and did nothing about it. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut #CSA

She was guilty of rather more than a casual failure of oversight. In an open letter to the BBC after it investigated a range of monstrous abuse (child prostitution, torture, alleged murders), Hodge libelled one of its victims as “seriously disturbed”. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut

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