Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.
The Office of the Inspector General released its report on Friday detailing the Secret Service’s preparation for, and response to, the events of January 6, 2021. Five people died and hundreds were injured in the Capitol assault, where rioters aimed to prevent the certification of the election for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Among the shocking revelations was that Harris, then vice president-elect, was within close range to a “viable” pipe bomb that Secret Security had missed in a security sweep.
“The pipe bomb had been placed near the [Democratic National Committee] building the night before”, the report states, but Secret Service personnel did not identify it during their security sweep on the morning of January 6.
Points angrily at all of US history.
Our record on holding people accountable is abysmal. We certainly aren’t unique in that regard, but as context for this case the US has a history of being fine with violent white protestors and completely unhinged in response to minority protestors. Jan 6th matches that pattern.
I was watching it live on TV and I thought to myself, if these were black people they would be mowed down with machine guns.
And that’s apart from being fine with the war crimes abroad. But it never affected anyone within the country, so that’s all fine and dandy thing of the past.
Everyone there conveniently forgets that “history” and only reiterates about the “violence” when it starts to affect themselves.
It just might be that your country loves, or likely worships violence.