DC mayor told Jan. 6 panel failures resulted from belief far-right extremists were ‘friendly’ to police
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) testified to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that a belief that far-right extremists and rioters would be “friendly” to law enforcement that day caused “intelligence failures.”
“People thought they were friendly to law enforcement and that they loved their country,” Bowser said in a newly released transcript. “People didn’t think that these white nationalists would overthrow the Capitol building.”
The mayor’s interview was included in the latest batch of transcripts released by the Jan. 6 panel as it winds down its high-profile investigation into the Capitol attack.
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Bowser, however, told the committee that far-right protesters and rioters were “becoming aggressive with the police” and vandalizing the city during the demonstrations in December 2020.
“So that was the first time we saw those groups really disrupt and vandalize and were very aggressive with the police,” the mayor told the House committee. “I think our experience with them in December showed us that they were antagonistic to law enforcement.”
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