FOX News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram joins Special Report with more from Senate hearing
After ex-officials responsible for security at the Capitol on Jan. 6 testified before Congress Tuesday, the police union representing the rank-and-file reacted to the leadership dysfunction on display at the hearing and demanded U.S. Capitol Police Acting Chief Pittman also submit her resignation, citing systemic failures and intelligence breakdowns that left about 140 officers injured. Around 140 officers were injured during the insurrection including officers with crushed spinal discs, broken kneecaps, and traumatic brain injuries, U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement provided to Fox News on Wednesday. Some of these officers may never return to duty. Many more are experiencing signs of PTSD.
Ex-police chief says his request for National Guard was denied 2 days before Capitol riot
CNBC 2/23/2021 Dan Mangan
The former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police is set to tell Congress that he asked the sergeants-at-arms of the Senate and House on Jan. 4 to request the presence of the National Guard at a joint session of Congress two days later for protection.
But both sergeants-at-arms effectively denied that request by then-Chief Steven Sund, which came two days before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to a copy of testimony that Sund is scheduled to give Tuesday.
Colossal breakdown: FBI warning not fully shared before Capitol riot; police lacked training, gear Nicholas Wu, Kevin Johnson, Christal Hayes and Matthew Brown, USA TODAY
Capitol riot: FBI s warning not fully shared, police lacked training, gear
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Top Capitol law enforcement officials Tuesday described cascading intelligence breakdowns before the deadly Jan. 6 riots, including failure to adequately distribute an ominous bulletin provided by the FBI the night before warning that protesters were preparing for war.
In the first public testimony from officials tasked with the security strategy, former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund told a joint Senate investigating committee that the FBI report prepared by agents in the bureau s office in Norfolk, Virginia, was received by the police department s intelligence division but was never shared with the agency s command staff.