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Yes, that's true. Who does the actual security planning for the Capitol?
Where the militias on the left not from some unrelated agency that Trump placed there and not
the regular type of security?
sohi-
AIUI it's the Capitol Police, though they obviously liaise with other agencies for big events. It does just sound like they dropped a massive bollock here in underestimating Y'All Quaida...
The lot in front of the Lincoln memorial were military police; not sure if they were DC National Guard (who can be called out by the President) or something else. Point is it's perfectly possible to plaster DC with police and military if you want to.
Thrustvector
The pre-emptive police presence, uniform and civil plus federal turn out was massively different to BLM though.