April 17, 2021
A scathing new report by the Capitol Police s internal watchdog reveals officials knew Congress was the target of the deadly January 6 insurrection, yet officers were instructed to refrain from deploying more aggressive measures that could have helped push back the rioters. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports domestic terrorism incidents surged to a record high in 2020, fueled by white supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right. The Post found that, since 2015, right-wing extremists have been involved in 267 plots or attacks, leading to 91 deaths. Reporter A.C. Thompson, who explores the threat of far-right extremism in the new PBS Frontline documentary American Insurrection, says there was a massive pool of radicalized individuals ahead of the January 6 attack who were being pushed toward violence by an abundance of lies by the former president, by this entire conspiratorial right-wing media and social media ecosystem
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