National Guard Finally Allowed to Return to the Capitol After Being Forced to Sleep in a Freezing Parking Garage

Members of the National Guard sleep in the Capitol Visitors Center Thursday. The U.S. Secret Service announced that the special security event for the inauguration officially ended at noon Thursday

SEE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9174651/National-Guardsmen-forced-sleep-parking-lot-told-leave-Capitol.html:

National Guard are allowed back inside the Capitol after 5,000 were forced to take their breaks in parking lot by Capitol Police - sparking outraged governors of Florida and New Hampshire to recall their troops

  • Capitol Police apologized late Thursday after it emerged they'd asked troops brought in to protect DC to leave the Capitol building and take their rest breaks in a nearby designated parking lot instead
  • Photos showed up to 5,000 Guardsmen sleeping on the floor of the packed Thurgood Marshall Building parking lot and in a park outside as temperatures hit a low of 40 degrees
  • The scenes sparked immediate outrage among lawmakers as some Guardsmen revealed they felt 'incredibly betrayed' given they had just spent more than a week helping to fortify and protect the capital
  • Some Guardsmen said the parking lot they were relocated to had a single power outlet, no internet and just one bathroom with two stalls 
  • It has prompted the governors of some states, including New Hampshire and Florida, to order the immediate return of their Guardsmen from DC 
  • Footage showed the Guardsmen filing out of the parking lot overnight after they were permitted around midnight to return to the Capitol building in the wake of the fierce backlash 
  • Troops do have hotel rooms but their 12 hour shift pattern means they can't easily return to their rooms during rest breaks. Before being located to the parking lot, the troops had been allowed to take breaks in the Capitol 
  • The troops will now take their breaks near the Emancipation Hall inside the Capitol building going forward 

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National Guard Mysteriously Booted From Capitol Now Told They Can Return

BY TYLER O'NEIL

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On Thursday night, Politico published horrifying photos showing hundreds of National Guard troops forced to sleep in a parking lot after they had been mysteriously booted from the U.S. Capitol. It seemed as though the National Guard had served their purpose for Democrats’ post-riot photo ops only to be shoved aside after the Inauguration went off without a hitch. After bipartisan outcry, it appears the National Guard troops have finally gotten the all-clear to head back to the Capitol.

“Just heard that our troops will be moved back inside tonight,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) announced on Twitter. “We owe our National Guard and law enforcement officials a debt of gratitude that we can never truly repay. They’ve put everything on the line to protect us. I’m glad to hear they’ll be back indoors tonight.”

Earlier, Scott had shared photos of the National Guard setting up camp in a parking lot, calling the situation “unconscionable & unsafe.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) demanded answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

“Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer—why are American troops who are tasked with keeping security at the Capitol being forced to sleep in a parking lot? They deserve to be treated with respect, and we deserve answers,” he tweeted.

Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer—why are American troops who are tasked with keeping security at the Capitol being forced to sleep in a parking lot?

They deserve to be treated with respect, and we deserve answers. pic.twitter.com/J0R2dRC8bM

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) January 22, 2021

Schumer pledged to “get to the bottom of this.”

Other Democrats also expressed outrage.

Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.) called the situation “outrageous, shameful, and incredibly disrespectful to the men and women keeping the U.S. Capitol safe and secure.” She offered her office for National Guard troops to sleep in.

Politico reported that thousands of National Guard troops had been “forced to vacate congressional grounds” and had taken “their rest breaks outside and in nearby parking garages, after two weeks of sleepless nights protecting the nation’s capital in the wake of the violent assault on Jan. 6.”

Abrupt orders forced a unit out of the Dirksen Senate Office building on Thursday. “The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops,” Politico reported.

“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed,” a National Guardsman told Politico.

In the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6, Washington, D.C., has effectively been shut down, with bridges from Virginia blocked and National Guard occupying most streets in the capital. While authorities had reportedly picked up on chatter of threats before the Inauguration, those threats failed to materialize.

While Pelosi had condemned federal law enforcement in the harshest of terms when President Donald Trump deployed them to Portland — comparing them to stormtroopers — she happily shared photos of herself with the National Guard in D.C. after January 6.

The shameful treatment National Guard troops experienced on Thursday may give the lie to those photo ops.

The American people deserve to know what happened on Thursday.

Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.

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SEE ALSO:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9174651/National-Guardsmen-forced-sleep-parking-lot-told-leave-Capitol.html