Cameras captured the riots at one of America's most cherished buildings.Windows were smashed, documents spewed across offices and crowds, charging right past Capitol police.The chaos prompted questions: What went wrong?"They weren't prepared to deal with this mindset which is obvious, you can see the videos of it when the police were fighting with them trying to maintain the line at the building," Former Kenton County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director William Dorsey said. Dorsey worked in law enforcement for decades.He thinks a lack of planning contributed to the mass break-in, but wonders why the building itself wasn't better protected."Is there no physical barriers? Steel doors? It just amazes me," Dorsey said.Political leaders called for a thorough review of the security failures.Derek Bauman said last year's protests for racial justice brought a very different security response."Where was the rubber bullets? Where was the mass tear gassing? Where were the helicopters? Why was it there for that and not these folks and this is the most important location, the house of congress," Bauman said.Bauman spent 26 years in law enforcement, planning and training for many types of crowd control.Never before has he heard of something like this."What's going on with all the computers and stuff? Have they swepped the office for bugs? Do we know if there were bugs planted under...you don't need to be James Bond to walk in and stick something under a desk somewhere, we don't know because there's no answers and nobody's taken questions," Bauman said.Bauman said the American people deserve answers about what happened and the actions being taken to investigate what went wrong.
Cameras captured the riots at one of America's most cherished buildings.
Windows were smashed, documents spewed across offices and crowds, charging right past Capitol police.
The chaos prompted questions: What went wrong?
"They weren't prepared to deal with this mindset which is obvious, you can see the videos of it when the police were fighting with them trying to maintain the line at the building," Former Kenton County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director William Dorsey said.
Dorsey worked in law enforcement for decades.
He thinks a lack of planning contributed to the mass break-in, but wonders why the building itself wasn't better protected.
"Is there no physical barriers? Steel doors? It just amazes me," Dorsey said.
Political leaders called for a thorough review of the security failures.
Derek Bauman said last year's protests for racial justice brought a very different security response.
"Where was the rubber bullets? Where was the mass tear gassing? Where were the helicopters? Why was it there for that and not these folks and this is the most important location, the house of congress," Bauman said.
Bauman spent 26 years in law enforcement, planning and training for many types of crowd control.
Never before has he heard of something like this.
"What's going on with all the computers and stuff? Have they swepped the office for bugs? Do we know if there were bugs planted under...you don't need to be James Bond to walk in and stick something under a desk somewhere, we don't know because there's no answers and nobody's taken questions," Bauman said.
Bauman said the American people deserve answers about what happened and the actions being taken to investigate what went wrong.
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