Capitol Police plan to open field offices outside Washington to track threats to lawmakers.

[Pellinore]

Capitol Police in California or Florida are not cops - they have no jurisdiction. They are nothing but insurrectionists and revolutionaries, and should be treated as such.

Hogwash. A cop out of jurisdiction is still a cop.

Victor Maitland would still have gone to prison for shooting Axel Foley.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Hogwash. A cop out of jurisdiction is still a cop.

Victor Maitland would still have gone to prison for shooting Axel Foley.

Nope, a cop out of jurisdiction has no more authority than any other citizen.

Pelosi's Insurrectionists have zero authority outside of the Capitol.

 

[woodwork201]

Hogwash. A cop out of jurisdiction is still a cop.

Victor Maitland would still have gone to prison for shooting Axel Foley.

Wrong. A cop out of jurisdiction is NOT a cop but is, instead, one of either a bully, a thug, or a tyrant or, potientially at best, a consultant. And your comparison is about as idiotic as any I have read on here. You do realize, don't you,. that that was fiction, right?

 

[Esdraelon]

sounds like the first stages of a local federal police force in every precinct .

It's absolutely unacceptable. That entity answers to NO ONE but Congress, that is, Nancy. If they establish branch offices then we will officially have Brownshirts in America. At that point, the secret to taking away their power will be to establish regular, loud, boisterous protests that never end. Keep the Nazi filth busy protecting THEMSELVES rather than creating false flags or setting up average Americans who have the audacity to give DC the middle finger...

 

[Esdraelon]

We have elections and the courts. They're not completely useless to us yet.

That depends entirely on a citizen's financial resources. The Feds regularly use their endless resources to crush citizens and force them to accept a guilty plea or risk much worse imprisonment. If they can ruin a 30-year, 3-Star, they can ruin anyone.

 

[Canon Shooter]

For those of you saying they have no jurisdiction outside of capitol buildings, yhou may be mistaken:

§1966. Protection of Members of Congress, officers of Congress, and members of their families​

(a) Authority of the Capitol Police​

Subject to the direction of the Capitol Police Board, the United States Capitol Police is authorized to protect, in any area of the United States, the person of any Member of Congress, officer of the Congress, as defined in section 4101(b) of this title, and any member of the immediate family of any such Member or officer, if the Capitol Police Board determines such protection to be necessary.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title2/chapter29/subchapter2&edition=prelim

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[AZrailwhale]

For those of you saying they have no jurisdiction outside of capitol buildings, yhou may be mistaken:

§1966. Protection of Members of Congress, officers of Congress, and members of their families​

(a) Authority of the Capitol Police​

Subject to the direction of the Capitol Police Board, the United States Capitol Police is authorized to protect, in any area of the United States, the person of any Member of Congress, officer of the Congress, as defined in section 4101(b) of this title, and any member of the immediate family of any such Member or officer, if the Capitol Police Board determines such protection to be necessary.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title2/chapter29/subchapter2&edition=prelim

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In other words they can do anything they want, at their own discretion if by some stretch of their imagination it will protect a congress person or his/her family. Talk about a situation ripe for abuse. The Capital Police only answer to the Congress which has passed special laws to protect them. No other police force in the USA operates that way. No public scrutiny, no civilian revue board, nothing.

 

[Uncensored2008]

For those of you saying they have no jurisdiction outside of capitol buildings, yhou may be mistaken:

§1966. Protection of Members of Congress, officers of Congress, and members of their families​

(a) Authority of the Capitol Police​

Subject to the direction of the Capitol Police Board, the United States Capitol Police is authorized to protect, in any area of the United States, the person of any Member of Congress, officer of the Congress, as defined in section 4101(b) of this title, and any member of the immediate family of any such Member or officer, if the Capitol Police Board determines such protection to be necessary.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title2/chapter29/subchapter2&edition=prelim

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I'd say you are incorrect;

{ but such authority shall not be construed as authorizing the Metropolitan Police force, except with the consent or upon the request of the Capitol Police Board, to enter such buildings to make arrests in response to complaints or to serve warrants or to patrol the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds. For the purpose of this section, the word "grounds" shall include the House Office Buildings parking areas and that part or parts of property which have been or hereafter are acquired in the District of Columbia by the Architect of the Capitol, or by an officer of the Senate or the House, by lease, purchase, intergovernment transfer, or otherwise, for the use of the Senate, the House, or the Architect of the Capitol.}

 

[Canon Shooter]

to enter such buildings to make arrests in response to complaints or to serve warrants or to patrol the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds.

I don't see where that negates the ability of the Capitol Police to protect Congressmen, Senators, etc, outside of Washington DC...

 

[Uncensored2008]

I don't see where that negates the ability of the Capitol Police to protect Congressmen, Senators, etc, outside of Washington DC...

It provides the jurisdiction, which is the capitol grounds.

{For purposes of this section, "United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds" shall include the Library of Congress buildings and grounds described under section 167j of this title, except that in a case of buildings or grounds not located in the District of Columbia, the authority granted to the Metropolitan Police Force of the District of Columbia shall be granted to any police force within whose jurisdiction the buildings or grounds are located.}

 

[Canon Shooter]

It provides the jurisdiction, which is the capitol grounds.

{For purposes of this section, "United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds" shall include the Library of Congress buildings and grounds described under section 167j of this title, except that in a case of buildings or grounds not located in the District of Columbia, the authority granted to the Metropolitan Police Force of the District of Columbia shall be granted to any police force within whose jurisdiction the buildings or grounds are located.}

How, then, do you define the area described by the words "in any area of the United States" from this paragraph:

§1966. Protection of Members of Congress, officers of Congress, and members of their families​

(a) Authority of the Capitol Police​

Subject to the direction of the Capitol Police Board, the United States Capitol Police is authorized to protect, in any area of the United States, the person of any Member of Congress, officer of the Congress, as defined in section 4101(b) of this title, and any member of the immediate family of any such Member or officer, if the Capitol Police Board determines such protection to be necessary.

If the Capitol Police want to open a field office in Spokane or Stockton or Houston or Miami, I'm pretty sure they can do that...