DC Cops: Rioters Had Better Equipment Than We Did

Roll Call reports:

Three Capitol Police officers talked to CQ Roll Call under the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the department’s failures regarding equipment for Jan. 6, when hundreds of pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. All three are veteran officers with at least five years of experience each.

Most officers who fought that day did so without helmets, face shields or gas masks that would have better protected them from chemical irritants and blunt force imposed by the rioters. And some of the Capitol Police officers who were properly equipped with helmets and gas masks did not have them on their person.

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The rioters at the Capitol in many cases had more, and better, protective equipment than the police officers they were fighting. https://t.co/vCWEYv5LlU

— Roll Call (@rollcall) May 17, 2021