Obama: Security forces ill-prepared when Capitol stormed
The ex-US president criticized the security forces in Washington. During the attack on the parliament building in Washington, he said, he was surprised at how poorly prepared the security authorities were.
Three weeks after Donald Trump's supporters attacked the Capitol, the former U.S. president has been critical of the police operation. During the storming of the parliament building, what surprised him most was how poorly prepared the security forces were, the 59-year-old Democrat told ZDF in an interview for "heute journal." The authorities were much better prepared when it came to peaceful demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter movement. I could hardly believe that the Capitol Police and our security forces could not foresee this storm," he said.
In the attack on the Capitol on January 6, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed with high levels of violence. Already the day after the attack on the Capitol, Obama had spoken of a "moment of great dishonor" and a "disgrace to our nation."
Source: Der Spiegel
