Would you have preferred they mow down the protesters with bullets?
What an idiotic response.
The topic is how they were able to get INTO the Capitol Building in the first place.
I condemn the people that broke in. I also condemn the idiots running security at the Capitol Building.
As usual, you'll hold harmless the folks running security because they're gubm't.
No, the Capitol Police should have had a backup plan ready in case something like this happened. That needed coordination and planning with several other law enforcement agencies, and although they couldn't make specific plans until the situation developed, they should at least have been ready to roll. That took hours and if, as someone said, these guys had known what they were doing, a lot of people could have died.
The nation's Capitol is a massive building with a shitload of entrances, and to harden it that much, it would no longer belong to the people, a place open for all the people's business with their government. I don't want to live in Beijing, thanks. But I imagine there will be some steps to increase security.
You're right, I was as embarrassed by the pants down response from LE as I was by the mob.