Jonathan Turley: Congress May Have Restrained Capitol Police to Preserve False Lafayette Park Narrative

Joel B. Pollak14 Apr 2021

Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley argued Wednesday that Congress may have prevented the U.S. Capitol Police from preparing for the January 6 riot to protect a false narrative about the reason Lafayette Square was cleared after riots in 2020.

Turley referred to an internal report by Capitol Police Inspector General Michael A. Bolton that revealed the force declined to deploy its Civil Disturbance Unit, and was ordered not to use the most powerful means at its disposal to disperse crowds.

The report apparently confirmed that there was a reluctance to send the National Guard to assist the Capitol Police due to “optics.” The Capitol Police report to the leadership of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Turley noted that Democrats and the media had promoted the false claim that President Donald Trump had used tear gas to clear “peaceful protesters” from Lafayette Square so that he could walk across it for a “photo-op” at the church across the street.

The Black Lives Matter protest at Lafayette Square, across from the White House, had included a riot that resulted in injuries to dozens of police officers. Journalists — including one from Breitbart News — were assaulted by those in the square.

Then-President-elect Joe Biden repeated the false claim on January 7, in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. As Breitbart News noted at the time, Biden recycled several false statements about Lafayette Square that he and his party used throughout 2020.

Turley noted that Attorney General William Barr had already ordered countermeasures — including perimeter fencing — before Trump’s walk across the park. He argued further that Congress seems to have restrained itself from deploying that fencing, or using the National Guard, precisely because it did not want to contradict the false Lafayette Square narrative:...........To Read More....

Our Group's Take - I knew that the media and the leftists claims about Lafayette Park or false but I didn't realize just how false! Nor did I know a number of the different facts that were involved in that which are reported in this article. For example, I didn't know that dozens of police officers had already been injured although I knew that there had been attacks on them with frozen bottles and other such projectiles. I also didn't know that some journalists had been attacked.  I just can't get over how grossly and blatantly dishonest the left is - including its top leaders such as Biden, Obama, Harris, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc etc etc and of course including the mainstream media.

My Take - The moral foundation of the left knows no boundaries and is predicated on hate, envy, greed, violence.  Corruption and mendacity are the heart of leftism and that corruption knows no boundaries.