Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by sangnoir on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:28PM (#25689053)

If it is reasonable to assume that some individual members of the police force are sympathetic to the Q/Boogaloo cause, who is to say the person responsible for coordinating with the Pentagon wasn't a fellow traveler? Police forces, on the whole aren't exactly politically neutral: during primary season, I recall a republican politician getting a picture taken with a policeman who had a "Q" patch on his uniform.

There is not enough information to come to either conclusion, but I would like to think the DC police leadership didn't/doesn't plumb those depths of incompetence. The public (and congress) deserves answers on what happened and why.

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by smcl on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:09PM (#25689729)

They definitely deserve answers, you are right. But jumping to "This was an op and the DC police as a unit were in on it" is approaching wheelhouse of the crazies who instigated this whole debacle. That runaway cascade of believing lots of little things that could be possible is what led to millions believing in dumb stuff like Mole Children being kept as slaves by Hillary Clinton and friends.

Unless something more sinister emerges the simplest explanation is probably the best - there some cops who are far-right sympathisers and there are incompetently managed and organized Police forces. Both of those things are already demonstrably true and explain how the response quite well without introducing a grand conspiracy.

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by sangnoir on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:19PM (#25691276)

I was careful to say individuals - my point was that there is no reason to doubt the possibility of those sympathetic individual(s) being decision-makers in the force. I was careful to not suggest it was a group decision.

However, it is no secret that the FBI has long-reported (2006!) on white-supremecist infiltration of police forces[1] - this is not crazy talk. If someone joined the police as a rookie in 2006 to enforce their personal agenda, how far up the leadership hierarchy would they be now?

1. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by astura on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:50PM (#25689406)

>I recall a republican politician getting a picture taken with a policeman who had a "Q" patch on his uniform.

This picture?

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pence_posing_with_...

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by sangnoir on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:56PM (#25689504)

Yes - that's the one, thank you.

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