Capitol Police need to be disbanded.

[Suburban Warrior]

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[vercetti2021]

1. I agree

Fire every officer involved and have them charger with sedition

[RockRaven]

2. Uhh.... Have you read the articles about DOD, DHS, etc? ( i.e. executive branch controlled depts)

How much worse would it have been if Trump had been able to order the Capitol Police to completely stay away, like the DOD did with the National Guard? We'd have dozens of dead Congresspeople and staff.

We need a police force which only answers to Congress to protect Congress against the executive branch corruptly failing to do their duty. The Capitol Police needs to be utterly and completely examined and reformed, yes. But disbanded, no.

[rockfordfile]

3. No

[58Sunliner]

4. Don't agree. Many of those police officers fought and were sabotaged by superiors.

Obviously everyone in the dept needs to account for what happened there. Some will be fired. Who are you going to have guard the capitol?

[Blue_true]

7. Yes, some of the Capitol Cops fought the invaders.

This situation needs to be handled with a scalpel, not a meataxe.

I saw one Capitol Cop throw a punch at a terrorist who tried to jerk several of his colleagues down as the Cops were holding a barricade against the thugs.

Find the complicit cops and fire them. The endangered their colleagues who were doing their jobs properly, all of Congress and congressional staff.

[58Sunliner]

10. Exactly.

[BusyBeingBest]

13. Agreed. Many tried to control the situation.

Their superiors and the Trump administration put them in a terrible and life-threatening position.

[Hoyt]

5. Congress needs to get serious about CP oversight.

[tymorial]

6. No

[StarfishSaver]

8. No.

[mackdaddy]

9. NO. But there needs to be an investigation on where the Pro Trumper leaders came from.

and how they got radicalized and put into position.

In this case, in addition to the Democrats, Mcconnell and Pence were put into mortal peril.

[RussBLib]

11. At the least, they need to be purged

Of Trumpian elements.

And then, we need to comb through every single police department in this country and weed out the white supremacists, nazi sympathizers and racists in their ranks. No fucking wonder so many cops kill black folks. The cops are full of white supremacists.

[IsItJustMe]

12. They need a new slate of dependable officers. I am sure some of them were doing their job, but at

this point, how could you trust any of them. I wouldn't be able to.