https://www.kuow.org/stories/ex-capitol-police-chief-says-requests-for-national-guard-denied-6-times-in-riots

The former chief of U.S. Capitol Police says security officials at the House and Senate rebuffed his early requests to call in the National Guard ahead of a demonstration in support of President Trump that turned into a deadly attack on Congress.

Former chief Steven Sund who resigned his post last week after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for him to step down made the assertions in an interview with The Washington Post published Sunday.

Sund contradicts claims made by officials after Wednesday's assault on Capitol Hill. Sund's superiors said previously that the National Guard and other additional security support could have been provided, but no one at the Capitol requested it.

Sund told the Post that House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving was concerned with the "optics" of declaring an emergency ahead of the protests and rejected a National Guard presence. He says Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger recommended that he informally request the Guard to be ready in case it was needed to maintain security.

Like Sund, Irving and Stenger have also since resigned their posts.

Sund says he requested assistance six times ahead of and during the attack on the Capitol. Each of those requests was denied or delayed, he says.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/hank-johnson-capitol-riot-lynch

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.) said Saturday that barring resistance from police, he has "no doubt" that the riotous Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week would've continued on to "lynch" black lawmakers like him.

"Rev. Al, when they finally got us out of there, we walked past spread-eagled rioters on the floor at gunpoint by the Capitol Hill police officers as we went down the steps. They had us surrounded up there on the third floor. And if that police officer had not fired and stopped the onslaught in the Speaker's lobby, they would've cut off our escape route," he continued. "They would've had us upstairs, and I have no doubt that some of us who look like me would've been hanging from the railings of the third floor, onto the House floor, swinging like … strange fruit. We would've been swinging from those railings."

"Strange Fruit" was originally a poem

Billie Holiday may have popularized "Strange Fruit" and turned it into a work of art, but it was a Jewish communist teacher and civil rights activist from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol, who wrote it, first as a poem, then later as a song.

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