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Bill Keating: “About a quarter of the overall Capitol Police staff itself…”

Featuring: Bill Keating, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 9th Congressional District

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Congressman Bill Keating on the Capitol Riots

Published | Video Starts at 02:33

And I know it's very early in the process, but it seems like the Capitol was, you know, just had a handful of people on staff that day for security. It seemed. Seemed like a joke. To my knowledge, About a quarter of the overall Capitol Police staff itself was at that time on duty. From my discussions with Capitol Police, I went around the evening before when there were some people peacefully gathering in smaller numbers, but large in the hundreds. (02:33–02:42)

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Asserts that only about 25% of the Capitol Police staff was on duty during the riot.

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