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Does the fact that panic buttons installed in Capitol offices were clandestinely removed prior to the insurrection, point to a deeper conspiracy to get legislators intentionally killed?

Asked by ragingloli (51988points) January 13th, 2021

https://www.newsweek.com/capitol-hill-riots-panic-buttons-torn-out-staffer-1561191

Together with footage of capitol police letting rioters in, and taking selfies with them, it does seem to point to there being a saboteur.

“Groh told The Boston Globe that the group barricaded the door with furniture and water jugs that had piled up during the pandemic before she pulled out a gas mask.

But when she looked for the special panic buttons, she found they had been removed.

Every panic button in my office had been torn out—the whole unit,” she told the newspaper, adding that the team could come up with no rationale as to why. The staffer said that she had used them before and they had not switched offices since then.

She explained that, because of multiple death threats aimed at Pressley over the past two years, it had become routine for her staffers to run through safety drills. Pressley, as one of four progressive Democratic representatives in “The Squad,” has faced racist attacks from Trump supporters.

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