Partisan Politics Involved In Lax D.C. Police Protection?

Partisan Politics Involved In Lax D.C. Police Protection?


“I very honestly think that he [Mayor Gray] told them to not do anything, because, pardon my language, because it was bullshit last night,” Kudron added. “They didn’t do a damn thing.”


By Dell Hill

This is a follow-up report to my earlier post on the events in Washington, D.C at the Americans For Prosperity event.

The strong suggestion has been made that D.C. police were purposely understaffed and instructed to do the bare minimum.

The DC Caller follows up:

“Allegations that the lack of adequate police resources to deal with the protests was due to political considerations surfaced almost immediately after word spread that Washington, D.C., 911 operators apparently hung up on Americans For Prosperity event organizers this weekend.

On Friday night, as “Occupy” protesters stormed the DC Convention Center when AFP activists and conservative leaders including billionaire David Koch tried to leave, the conservatives forced to remain inside said there weren’t enough police officers to deal with the violent protesters. AFP organizers had tried to call 911 at least four times asking for more police help, but they say the 911 operators hung up on them.

The officers outside the Convention Center, at least according to the “Occupy” protesters’ victims’ accounts to The Daily Caller, weren’t much help either.

And, Washington has a Democratic mayor, Vincent Gray, who’s clearly opposed to conservative groups like Americans For Prosperity. So, those who were in the crowd that night, and some of the victims, think Gray and his local DC administration politically orchestrated the lack of police response to the violent mob of “Occupy” protesters.

Joella Kudron, one of the young AFP “Defending the American Dream” summit attendees who assisted an elderly summit attendee who was trampled by left wing Occupy protesters, said the lack of police presence looked political to her.

“After what I saw last night — you know, I only saw one person get arrested and it was because they kicked a car and damaged personal property,” Kudron told TheDC. “They didn’t go after anyone in the crowd who pushed these women down the stairs, and pushed them to fall on the ground. They didn’t stop the protesters from yelling at this woman, or from surrounding her when she was clearly in physical danger.”

“That, to me, is a huge problem, and I think that, I very honestly think that he [Mayor Gray] told them to not do anything, because, pardon my language, because it was bullshit last night,” Kudron added. “They didn’t do a damn thing.”

There’s more and you’re invited to read it all by clicking here.