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Roll Call reports:
Capitol Police spent $90,075 of taxpayer dollars in 2018 and 2019 to train its specialized Containment Emergency Response Team with Northern Red Inc., a company that publicly displays symbols often associated with the white supremacist movement.
Northern Red’s website and Facebook page prominently display the Devil’s Guard Patch, which stems from a 1971 novel titled “Devil’s Guard,” which has been described as “overly sympathetic to the Nazis, especially the SS.”
Northern Red’s company logo includes a combination of two Nordic runes (symbols) — Othala and Tyr — both of which are listed on the Anti-Defamation League’s website as hate symbols. Another Northern Red logo, Thor’s Hammer, is also listed as a hate symbol.
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The Capitol Police inspector general discovered the symbols as part of his review into the Jan. 6 insurrection and has recommended the department “review the appropriateness of utilizing Northern Red, Inc. for further training.” https://t.co/Y7anqnxvji
— Roll Call (@rollcall) June 12, 2021
The FBI also awarded several contracts to the company from 2015 to 2018, according to a review of government contract records. https://t.co/Y7anqnxvji
— Roll Call (@rollcall) June 12, 2021
“Acting Chief Pittman and all of the USCP leadership team takes extremist ideology seriously and are working on a plan to ensure that kind of cancer does not find its way into this Department. It has no place here,” a Capitol Police spokesperson said. https://t.co/JQowmLmJ7G
— Chris Marquette (@ChrisMarquette_) June 11, 2021
The Capitol Police’s ties to Northern Red are not included in the recent bipartisan Senate report but underscore how much more information could be revealed by further investigation into the Capitol attack. https://t.co/kpv58x0owY
— Roll Call (@rollcall) June 12, 2021