Panic buttons were inexplicably torn out ahead of Capitol riots, says Ayanna Pressley chief of staff

When I got my welcome pack from GN, I thought I’d read it through carefully, but I must have missed the section that said youmust start a new thread every day, or ideally, twice a day

Yes.

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Bidens people rioting?

That’s what they were shouting to the Interviewer, trying to blame it all on ‘our most popular President ever..........’ and that it was really Bidens people.

I was just wondering why this info has only come out a week after the invasion of the Capitol Building? Are they trying to pass the blame across to the Democrats?

Apparently many TV stations loyal to Trump haven’t even mentioned the Impeachment proceedings yet ( says CNN this morning)

I know this is a serious thread, but sometimes a smile is just so necessary when everything else looks bleak

Ms Pressley is a democrat.

norah I need to check that then the piece I saw said that she was a republican.

If she was a democrat then ignore all of my posts on this thread!

"A member of the Democratic Party, Pressley defeated the ten-term incumbent Mike Capuano in the primary election and ran unopposed in the general election. She had previously been elected as an at-large member of the Boston City Council in 2010. Pressley was the first black woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts."

Surely there is too much CCTV in the Capital for this to be a total mystery?

Lisa ?
Mawbe that gave me a laugh, and also reminded me of my fave bar of toffee when a child.?

Perhaps the office was attacked/ trashed before staff went in there to press buttons.
Perhaps it’s a lie, and the panic buttons were intact.
Perhaps somebody sympathetic to Trump and who dislikes
Ms Pressley chose to do it.
Perhaps somebody in the office chose to do it to make it seem
As if there was a conspiracy.
Take your pick.

It sounds as though there were several people barricading themselved in Ms Pressley's office when the informant says the panic buttons were seen to have been ripped out, so corroboration can be sought from the rest of them.

I wonder whether panic buttons have a fail-safe mode that causes an alarm to ring somewhere if the connection suddenly fails? If they don't, that would be a useful mofification.

I absolutely believe it - remember that just because these idiots supported Trump it doesn’t mean they support the government especially when they think politicians are trying to overthrow the election.

The scary part is that it implies that they have people on the inside.

AmberSpyglass

The scary part is that it implies that they have people on the inside.

That was mentioned a couple of days ago. Police officers were seen being photographed in selfies with rioters.

Weren’t the police just having selfies with decent citizens who had come to peacefully protest? There were good, ordinary people there. Not nutters or rioters. A lot of smiling people, joshing with the police.

Then it turned nasty.

Urms we are watching *Storming the Capitol*which was on recently and we recorded it, they were not smiley people who were joshing, this is the ‘unseen’ footage of very angry people who then listened to Trumps speech, just watching a man holding a noose...... and some more dressed as soldiers with full armour and machine guns.
I could go on.

Fair enough Oops I don’t doubt you for one moment. I saw footage on the news where at the beginning, people were literally strolling in, taking selfies and joshing. Police were moving barriers to accommodate them. Then it turned nasty. Both accounts are valid. It started nice but ended scary.

lemongrove

Lisa ?
Mawbe that gave me a laugh, and also reminded me of my fave bar of toffee when a child.?

Highland Cattle (which I absolutely love) will forever be "toffee bulls" to me, all because of McCowan's toffee.

Can you still get it?

Mawbe

I' ve just seen that at 17:17:20 I suggested a useful mofification for alarm buttons. Would that scare off any cloves moffs that tried to eat the buttons? Or would they only work wivvin the sound of Bow Bells?

(Sorry to be flippant, but it is no worse than toffee bulls, and laughter is a good antidote in serious times)