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I'm Jeremy Skayhill coming to you from the intercept in New York City and this is intercepted.

Over the summer across this country we saw heavily armed police officers mercilessly respond to protesters who were

challenging police brutality, racism and impunity.

As many have noted, these police actions stand in stark contrast to the response to Trump supporters who violently

seized the Capitol on January 6th, where one Capitol police officer was killed by the so-called law and order crowd.

The violent demonstrations that consume the Capitol this week left five people dead. Among them 42-year-old Brian Siknik, a Capitol police officer since 2008.

There are a slew of unanswered questions about this siege of the Capitol. Did members of Congress aid the attacks? And if so, which ones? And in what way?

What role did senior military or law enforcement play in the events, either through inaction or active support?

What was the role of US military veterans and local law enforcement in the siege? There must be congressional investigations running parallel to those aimed at the individual rioters to address these questions.

But will any probe go far enough in critically examining how we got here, beyond blaming Donald Trump and the elected leaders and media figures who enabled him for fomenting and inciting violence?

And now that Trump has gone from office, what's next?

The January 6th attack on the US Capitol appears on the surface to be a colossal intelligence failure.

We're being asked to believe that the National Security apparatus failed to see the threat to the US Congress posed by right-wing extremists, even as those people organized across social media platforms in plain sight.

Maybe they chose to ignore it, or maybe people in key positions actively supported it. The same security apparatus that charged nearly 200 people and mos, including journalists and observers, with felony rioting when Trump was inaugurated in 2017 and has leveled federal charges, including terrorism charges on Black Lives Matter protesters that they didn't see this coming?

As of its most recent accounting in June, the FBI reports that more than 13,000 people have been arrested for crimes related to this summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

That number not only includes demonstrators, but also far-right violence.

For many decades, and certainly since 9-11, we've not only seen the endless expansion of US militarism abroad, but a paramilitarization of law enforcement agencies at home.

Right after the September 11th attacks, I established the Office of Homeland Security in the White House and gave it a critical mission to produce a national strategy for Homeland Security.

And today I'm sending to Congress our new national strategy from Homeland Security.

Since 9-11, DHS has become a behemoth, absorbing 22 distinct government agencies. The agency now includes customs and border protection, immigration and customs enforcement known as ICE, the Secret Service, and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, among others.

DHS also issues grants to help local law enforcement purchase military-grade equipment.

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