The plot thickens.
4 in 10 Capitol Police officers eligible to participate cast votes of ‘no confidence’ in leaders
Basically, about 650 out of 1,500 officers actually participated in the vote, and the majority of those voted "no confidence" in all of CPD's leadership, including the acting chief and others who had to be appointed after their predecessors resigned following the insurrection. Those acting officials have stated that their goal is to provide the assistance their officers need to help with the trauma of the attack, among other things.
Now, why on earth would so many officers - still a minority though - vote "no confidence" against leaders who are trying to help them after being appointed amid a crisis? More importantly why would they vote against leaders who...weren't even leaders at the time it occurred?
Why would the CPD union say "The entire executive team failed us, and they must be held accountable,” he said,
according to NPR. “Their inaction cost lives," but then vote against people who
weren't on the executive team at the time of the attack?
Acting Chief Pittman recently testified at the end of January, "By January 4th, the Department knew that the January 6th event would not be like any of the previous protests held in 2020. We knew that militia groups and white supremacists organizations would be attending. We also knew that some of these participants were intending to bring firearms and other weapons to the event. We knew that there was a strong potential for violence and that Congress was the target. The Department prepared in order to meet these challenges, but we did not do enough." In saying so, she admits that the department failed. Obviously this raises questions as to
why it failed, but it's the truth.
So...why did 611 officers vote no confidence against a Chief who was not actually Chief during the attack and also testified the truth about the attack?
This water seems pretty murky. Methinks 611 officers and their union are seeming pretty suspicious after this vote. There's already plenty of evidence to suggest that some officers actually seemed to help the terrorists - it's on video. This all seems like more circumstantial evidence that allowing the attack was planned. Funnily enough, Lindsay Graham was on Fox News recently asking what Nancy Pelosi knows about how the attack was allowed to occur, implying that Democrats had a hand in planning it. All of these people are behaving so suspiciously that I could swear I'm watching a bad whodunit film.
