Whistleblower: Capitol Police Leaders Acted 'With Intent and Malice' on Jan. 6

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/whistleblower-says-capitol-police-leaders-acted-with-intent-and-malice-on-jan-6?ref=home

Whistleblower: Capitol Police Leaders Acted ‘With Intent and Malice’ on Jan. 6
‘HANDS IN THEIR LAPS’
Blake Montgomery
Reporter/Editor
Published Oct. 08, 2021 8:30PM ET

A former senior member of the Capitol Police has written a blistering whistleblower letter to members of Congress accusing the force’s leadership of knowingly failing to help their own officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and then obfuscating the fact for personal gain. The former officer spent several hours with Yogananda Pittman, then the Capitol Police’s head of intelligence, and Sean Gallagher, its head of uniformed operations, the day of the attempted insurrection. The whistleblower wrote, “What I observed was them mostly sitting there, blankly looking at the TV screens showing real time footage of officers and officials fighting for the Congress and their lives… It is my allegation that these two with intent and malice opted to not try and assist the officers and officials, blame others for the failures, and chose to try and use this event for their own personal promotions.”

The letter also alleges Pittman lied to Congress about an intelligence report delivered just a day before the riot. Pittman served as acting chief of the force after the former chief resigned, but she returned to her role as head of intelligence in August following a vote of no confidence from rank-and-file officers. Gallagher handled Pittman’s job during her tenure as acting chief but returned to his former job when she did the same. The whistleblower left the Capitol Police six months after the Capitol riot.

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1. K&R

[elleng]

2. 'Yogananda D. Pittman is an American law enforcement officer serving as assistant chief

of the United States Capitol Police (USCP).[1] She served as acting chief of the USCP from January 8 to July 23, 2021. Pittman's selection was made on January 8, 2021, following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol and resignation of Steven Sund.[2][3][4] Her term as acting chief ended at the time of the appointment of J. Thomas Manger.[5] . .

She joined the Capitol Police in 2001. In 2012, Pittman was among the first black female supervisors to be promoted to the rank of captain in the Capitol Police. At that time, she was responsible for over 400 officers and civilian staff. The next year, she was in charge of the security planning for the second inauguration of Barack Obama.[7] During her tenure, Pittman has been assigned to the United States Senate Division and most recently served as assistant chief of police for protective and intelligence operations.[8] In 2020, Pittman received the Women in Federal Law Enforcement's Outstanding Advocate for Women award.[2]

Following the resignation of Steven Sund in 2021, Pittman became acting chief of the Capitol Police. She is the first woman and first African American to lead the Capitol Police.[2][9][10][11] On February 15, 2021 the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, the union representing Capitol Police officers, voted 92% against Pittman in a vote of no confidence in her leadership.[12]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogananda_Pittman

[The Magistrate]

3. The Dislike Of A Police Union, Ma'am

Is something I would rate as in her favor.

[stopdiggin]

5. yep. not sure if this means a whole lot

(meaning the no confidence vote). And I would be a good deal more impressed with a union that was ferreting out and exposing members that were complicit in endangering fellow officers on Jan. 6th. They are certain within your ranks - and you know who they are.

[Champp]

4. Scumbag Republican "leaders"

Let the violent Republican mob kill and kick the shit out of their officers. Republican "leaders" threw their own people to the mob. Stabbed them in the back. They must be stripped of rank, brought before the public for trial, and then locked up.

Fugging Republicans betray their own security officers. Un-fugging believable how low-down shitty Republican "values" are. They betrayed their own people.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Herr had agents planted within the capitol police, ofc he had to for the soft coup to succeed.

[onetexan]

10. I believe it

[Ligyron]

7. I wonder if anything significant will occur as a result of this?

There are saboteurs of Justice placed all throughout the bureaucracy now.

The FBI is a joke in a lot of areas.

[Marthe48]

8. If you sell out your country

what do you have left? If you sell out your country and it fails, because you didn't defend it, the gravy train is going to run off the tracks. And you will die with everyone else you betrayed.

[calimary]

11. BOOM!

Hell YEAH!

[czarjak]

9. Stop playing NICE with nasty!

[calimary]

12. TOTALLY!!!

When are our Dems going to STOP bringing friggin’ feather dusters to gun fights???