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What was it like for Capitol Police caught up in the violent Jan. 6 protest?
The ProPublica online news service interviewed 19 current and former Capitol Police officers.
ProPublica also found a Jan. 5 document stating that white supremacists were expected with “other extremist groups” including the left-wing Antifa movement that has clashed with far-right groups before. 
The interviews revealed rioters had clambered up the scaffolding by the stage erected for the inauguration of President Joseph Biden. 
They hurled metal rebar, plywood, power tools, even cans of food they had frozen for extra damage at police officers beneath them.
In front of the police, a mob was mounting a frontal assault with fists and baseball bats. 
They grabbed at officers' weapons and unleashed a barrage of M-80 firecrackers. 
Officers were soaked in streams of bright orange bear spray and choked on acrid smoke singing their noses and obscuring their vision.
A combat veteran thought the rioters were so vicious, so relentless, that they seemed fueled by methamphetamine. 
He saw a chunk of steel strike a fellow officer above the eye, setting off a geyser of blood. 
A pepper ball tore through the air over his shoulder and exploded against the jaw of a man in front of him. 
The round, filled with chemical irritant, ripped the man’s face open. His teeth were now visible through a hole in his cheek. Blood poured out, puddling on the pavement.
The combat veteran was hit with bear spray 8 times. His experience overseas he said "was nothing like this.” 
Thousands of people descended on the Capitol, intent on stopping Congress from certifying an election they believed was stolen.
Many of the officers spoake to ProPublica reporters anonymously for fear of retribution. 
That they spoke at all indicates the depth of their frustration over the botched leadership response from the top brass and House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi's office which is charged with Capitol Hill securty.
The Speaker said she is ordering an investigation of who was responsible.
Critics says investigtors should find out why the security brass turned down National Guatrd help the White House offered days earlier and the Guard was not called up until after 5 pm.
ProPublica obtained confidential intelligence bulletins and planning documents that show how failures of leadership, communication and tactics put hundreds of officers' lives at risk.
In response to questions, the Capitol Police sent a 1-sentence email: “There is a multi-jurisdictional investigation underway and in order to protect that process, we are unfortunately unable to provide any comment at this time.”
A previously unreported 17-page Capitol Police operational plan showed select officials were notified of “numerous social media posts” encouraging protesters to arrive armed.
Other intelligence reports reveal signs of internal confusion about how to respond.
4 daily reports from the department’s intelligence division make no mention of expected extremist groups or the possibility they would be armed. 
Instead, they note simply that “folks could organize a demonstration on USCP grounds.”
The intelligence reports scored the threat as “improbable.” 
Capitol Police Chief Seven Sund, who submitted his resignation, said he had tried to call in the National Guard 2 days before.
The sergeants-at-arms — the House and Senate officials responsible for security of lawmakers — denied his request, he said. 
The full PropPublica report can be read at
https://www.propublica.org/article/i-dont-trust-the-people-above-me-riot-squad-cops-open-up-about-disastrous-response-to-capitol-insurrection?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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