This is one of my favorite topics, especially now that the election is over and Donald Trump is our president again. I was fortunate to work thirty six years for America's finest police department; the LAPD. We spent hundreds of hours practicing crowd control and studying how to help keep peaceful protests from becoming violent riots. There are lots of things the police can do to prevent protesters from becoming rioters and the Capitol police didn't seem to know any of them. One of the most basic is to leave people in the crowd an avenue of escape when you want them to disperse. The Capitol police actually blocked any avenue of escape and forced some people in the crowd to enter the Capitol building to avoid being injured by the police. I don't think the police wanted to hurt them or drive them inside the building they just looked like they'd never been trained on the psychology or the proper way to deploy resources to disperse a group of protesters once they become destructive or violent. One good way is to divide the crowd by using police officers lined up back to back and pushing the crowd away using short jabs toward them with the police baton and ordering them to 'back up!'
That way you can split up the crowd and call on police officers standing by at the perimeter to move in and arrest individuals who are inciting riots or passing out dangerous materials. In doing so you can also move in more police as needed to move the now divided crowd away from the building. As near as I could tell they didn't even attempt that. All they did was stand behind their flimsy barricades and wait to be trampled. Once they realized they were about to lose their barrier tug of war with the protesters they decided to deploy non lethal munitions and chemical irritants which they used about as effectively as a group of elementary school second graders might. It's not that clear what type of chemical irritant the police used, if it was tear gas or pepper spray canisters, but it is clear that whatever they used was used ineffectively. The idea is to move the crowd away from the building, and the police, and then to disperse them entirely. The proper way to deploy such munitions is to fire them at the feet of the protesters in the front, pushing them back and following them continuously, forcing them to continue their retreat.
The Capitol police were firing their munitions deep either into the middle of the crowd or just behind them. That had the effect of blinding them and making it hard for them to breathe and at the same time blocking any avenue of escape. That forced a lot of them to run toward the barricades and seek safety inside the building. A panicked crowd of protesters is about the last thing a police department wants to have to deal with, but that's exactly what the Capitol police did; they panicked people in the crowd making them more dangerous to the police and to each other. Along with that we may never know what the FBI assets that had been planted among the protesters were telling them. The result was that some Capitol police officers were injured and more damage was done to the building. Another thing that could be done at the same time as the crowd is being dispersed by the police pushing them back, another group of police officers could approach them from behind and pull them back ensuring that the crowd didn't regroup. Anyone who appeared particularly dangerous would be handcuffed and detained in a secure area some distance away where they could be processed and detained for later transportation to the jail.
The police could have been divided into squads with a squad leader and three or four squads would then be put under the supervision of a higher ranking official providing directions and orders for deployment. The deployment of non lethal munitions or chemical irritants should not be at the discretion of individual police officers or their squad leaders. That order should come from somewhere higher up the chain of command for at least two reasons; one it makes someone accountable for the decision and it makes the deployment more successful because it is done in an orderly and targeted fashion, not just randomly lobbing incendiary devices into the crowd. It would also give someone higher up the chain to use a microphone to deliver a dispersal order to the protesters warning them what was about to happen if they didn't leave and giving them another chance voluntarily leave the area, which is oftentimes an effective tool that reduces some of the nervousness and tension. The person ordering the deployment of chemical irritants could also then direct where the munitions should be aimed; at the feet of the nearest protesters rapidly and in a concentrated fire By four or five police officers standing shoulder to shoulder and advancing toward the protesters, and directing them to continue to back up and leave. This tactic usually does cause the protesters to back away quickly to an area farther away from the intended target and toward awaiting police officers who are standing by to direct them to the avenue of egress, or to arrest any who become violent.
I couldn't tell who was giving the order for the Capitol police to fire chemical irritant munitions into the crowd, but it was clear that there was no order to it. They were firing into the middle of the group at random, not concentrating on any particular area, or even farther away at the rear of the group protesting effectively cutting off their avenue of escape which is not an effective way to persuade protesters to leave. Lots of other things went wrong as well, including inside the building where the police failed to effectively take control of the building's interior room by room in an aggressive and orderly manner.
The entire spectacle was an embarrassment that ended in chaos, injury and death. Much of which could have been avoided if the police had acted professionally instead of creating a chaotic scene resembling one mob facing off against another mob. Training is so important. Proper training saves lives and protects property.
Then to add to the embarrassment the FBI moved in and conducted an investigation ignoring the law and bullying people into pleading guilty to things many of them were not guilty of. Probably. It became clear to most people that the FBI was on a political vendetta orchestrated by the Biden administration. For one thing a Capitol police officer had murdered an unarmed woman and they had to do whatever they could to make it look legitimate. In addition to that the Capitol police had been very ineffective at crowd control so special emphasis had to be put on the behavior of the protesters and focus taken away from the embarrassing tactics of the police.
Ever since Donald Trump announced in 2015 that he was going to run for President of the United States as a Republican the Obama controlled Department of Justice began a long and arduous campaign to illegally spy on him, his family members, friends and associates and single them out for special treatment. They paid a former member of the British version of the CIA to compile a dossier on Candidate Trump, paying him a reported million dollars plus. The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation authorized the submission of a false affidavit to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge in order to illegally use electronic surveillance against Trump and his associates. They used the information they gained to further damage their reputation by presenting more false affidavits to criminal courts so they could conduct illegal searches of several of the homes of Trump's friends, associates and family members.
They claimed that Trump was an agent of the Russian government who was trying to use his influence to make money by getting the support of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. During his candidacy Trump was arrested four different times for crimes that were never committed and any convictions will be almost certainly be overturned by appellate courts. Two of the cases have already been dismissed, another court convicted and sentenced him for paying a woman to stop publicly making up lies about him which has never been a crime before. His sentence was "unconditional discharge" on January 10th, 2025. Most likely this case will also be overturned by the appellate process. Two of the judges trying the cases against him are probably illegal aliens who will hopefully be deported even though they have lived here for about fifty years having been brought here as children by their parents.
All of these facts help create a foundation of illegal activities the FBI and the DOJ participated in upon becoming agents of the Democrat party instead of being true to their Oath to uphold the Constitution. Now that President Trump has been elected and most of the illegal charges have been dropped, in other words the democrat's efforts to stop him from campaigning have failed it's time to investigate the investigators. We don't want revenge, we just want to take steps to ensure that the FBI never joins an effort to undermine the Constitution again and that's going to mean firing most of the FBI leadership and seeking Special Agents who are not loyal to any particular individual or party, but to the Constitution they took an oath to protect. In the organization I worked for lying to a judge to secure a warrant against anyone was a criminal as well as a fireable offense. The FBI should be held to the same standard.
