{"id":221707,"date":"2021-04-08T05:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T05:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:44:35","slug":"blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Blame Pelosi, not top Capitol cop: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a236f953cdaa\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a236f953cdaa\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine\/#Names_are_not_to_blame\" >Names are not to blame<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine\/#Hunter_has_his_eye_on_politics\" >Hunter has his eye on politics<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blame-pelosi-not-top-capitol-cop-devine\/#No_one_wants_woke-friendly_skies\" >No one wants woke-friendly skies<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Blame Pelosi, not top Capitol cop: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Steven Sund, the popular US Capitol Police chief fired on live television by Nancy Pelosi less than 24 hours after January\u2019s Capitol riot, is sorely missed by his troops in their hour of need.<\/p>\n<p>Morale has plummeted and officers are resigning or contemplating early retirement in the aftermath, scapegoating and despicable politicization of the Capitol riot. Two have committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>A bad situation took a turn for worse last Friday when Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans was killed and another officer injured by an Islamist Louis Farrakhan follower who rammed a car into a police barricade outside the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>It was Sund who quietly went to visit the injured officer, Kevin Shaver, in hospital Saturday, and Sund to whom officers turned for advice and consolation after the lone-wolf attack. They keep asking if he can return to his job.<\/p>\n<p>When the remains of Officer Brian Sicknick, who died in unexplained circumstances the day after the Jan. 6 riot, were lying in honor in the Capitol rotunda, it was Sund who slipped in before dawn to pay his respects before House Speaker Pelosi staged her self-serving spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Sund, a decorated, 25-year career veteran of counterterrorism at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, where he was commander of the Special Operations Division, had been running the Capitol police for 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>He had tried for two days to get permission for National Guard backup before the riot but was blocked by people doing the bidding of Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has never owned up to her role in the woeful undermanning of the Capitol police that day. Instead, she blamed Sund and her loyal House sergeant at arms, Paul Irving.<\/p>\n<p>By scapegoating Sund, who had capably led his outnumbered troops that terrible day, and kept every member of Congress safe, she was blaming the very officers who fought valiantly for hours to defend the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling for the resignation of the chief of the Capitol Police, Mr, Sund,\u201d Pelosi declared at a tele\u00advised press conference on Jan. 7. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t even called us since this h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi politicized officer Brian Sicknick\u2019s death in the Capitol rotunda while Steven Sund paid his respects.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-17787301 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/NancyPelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/NancyPelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/NancyPelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/NancyPelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/NancyPelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi politicized officer Brian Sicknick\u2019s death in the Capitol rotunda while Steven Sund paid his respects.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pool\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That just wasn\u2019t true, as Sund told Pelosi in an eight-page letter.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to Pelosi twice on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:36 p.m., he briefed then-Vice President Mike Pence and Pelosi that the chambers could be safely reoccupied beginning at 7:30 p.m. to complete certification of the Electoral College vote.<\/p>\n<p>He had another conference call with Pelosi and Sen. Mitch McConnell an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Did the 81-year-old House speaker forget?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on the day of the riot, at 12:58 p.m., as the Capitol was \u00adbeing breached, Sund urgently called Irving, and again requested National Guard backup.<\/p>\n<p>Irving told him he had to \u201crun it up the chain of command.\u201d In other words, ask Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Sund called Irving four more times, all while commanding the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>But it took 3\u00bd hours for Irving to tell him his request had been approved. By the time the first 150 members of the National Guard were took up positions on Capitol grounds at 5:40 p.m., the crisis was all but over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe that the US Capitol Police failed,\u201d Sund wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreatly outnumbered and against tremendous odds, they kept the members safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the Capitol Police feel vulnerable and need serious leadership. But Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer have left them hanging.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman has no security of tenure and the Capitol Police Board has only just started a nationwide executive search for a permanent chief.<\/p>\n<p>But the board will not find anyone more suited to the job than Sund.<\/p>\n<p>While he knows his officers want him back, and friends say he would do anything to return to the job he loved, Sund would only say yesterday: \u201cI know they\u2019re going through a lot. I stand with them and wish I was there to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He never should have been forced out. If anyone should have resigned in disgrace, it was Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Names_are_not_to_blame\"><\/span>Names are not to blame<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A man whose name in childhood was Kok Wah has complained to The New York Times that years ago, his elementary-school teacher called him Tommy to prevent his classmates making vulgar jokes at his expense.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt this memory was coaxed out of him to fit the narrative of structural racism that underpins the Times\u2019 stories about Anti-Asian hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Forget that the second wealthiest family in America changed the pronunciation of their Dutch surname, Koch, from \u201cc\u2013k\u201d to \u201ccoke\u201d to avoid being the butt of just such humor.<\/p>\n<p>No, the foresight of a schoolyard-wise teacher five decades ago wasn\u2019t racism, and it had nothing to do with the fact that the 63-year-old Chinese-American bus driver who now goes by Tommy Lau, was punched in the face in Brooklyn last month by a mentally ill, homeless black man with 33 arrests under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>That has everything to do with the fact that the city has failed in its duty of care to the mentally ill. Isolating them in hotel rooms only exacerbates their problems, and makes the streets less safe, especially for the elderly and weak.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hunter_has_his_eye_on_politics\"><\/span>Hunter has his eye on politics<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hate to break it to you, but Hunter Biden has political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>In his crackhead memoir and on his abandoned laptop, the president\u2019s 51-year-old son has expressed the desire to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps and whined that his ex-wife, Kathleen, was unsupportive of the aspiration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After he delivered the eulogy at brother Beau\u2019s funeral, for instance, he confided to her that he was thinking of going into politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery third person I hugged or shook hands with encouraged me to move back to Delaware and run for office,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen spoke for the entire nation when she replied: \u201cAre you serious?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_one_wants_woke-friendly_skies\"><\/span>No one wants woke-friendly skies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Nobody wants to fly with an airline that prioritizes identity politics over ability when choosing its pilots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But United thinks its new woke recruitment philosophy is a winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes,\u201d the airline trumpets in a promotional tweet. \u201cThat\u2019s why we plan for 50 percent of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passengers honestly don\u2019t care about the sex or skin color of the person in the cockpit. We just want to know that they are competent to fly the plane without killing us. We also want engineers who can build a bridge that won\u2019t collapse and surgeons who know the difference between a gall bladder and a kidney. That\u2019s the basics for a functioning society.<\/p>\n<p>But the cult of woketopia has so embedded itself into the DNA of corporate America that competence now is viewed as a symptom of toxic masculinity and white privilege.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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