{"id":4413,"date":"2025-08-27T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:28:57","slug":"fmr-capitol-police-chief-rips-pelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4413","title":{"rendered":"Fmr Capitol Police Chief Rips Pelo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Capitol Police Chief Challenges Pelosi on January 6 Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund publicly pushed back against former House Speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nancy Pelosi\u2019s claim that Donald Trump delayed the National Guard response on January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard,\u201d Pelosi said, accusing him of trying to distract from policy failures. Sund responded, \u201cMa\u2019am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sund: Guard Request Was Denied by Pelosi\u2019s Office<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sund explained that on January 3, 2021, he formally requested National Guard support, but it was rejected by the House Sergeant at Arms, who reports to Pelosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnder federal law\u2026 I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval,\u201d he said. During the riot, he added, \u201cyour Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, \u2018running it up the chain\u2019 for your approval.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He accused Pelosi of inconsistency: \u201cWhen I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Federal Control Brings Crime Drop in D.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Trump\u2019s recent federal crackdown in Washington, D.C.\u2014which included taking control of local police and deploying the National Guard\u2014violent and property crimes dropped. Compared to the previous week, property crime fell 19%, and violent crime dropped 17%, according to police data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Police Chief Challenges Pelosi on January 6 Response Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund publicly pushed back against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s claim that Donald Trump delayed the National Guard response on January 6. \u201cDonald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard,\u201d Pelosi said, accusing him of trying to distract from policy failures&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}