Year after the government reversed, its rules will over to you, Will Brian Sicknick a 12 year. Veteran of the force is one of five people killed at the capital on Wednesday, more than fifty officers hurt during the rioting instead of honoring, their bravery lawmakers are scrutinizing how law enforcement handled the breach, Randy Sutton, a retired, LAS Vegas police. Lieutenant who Tras Thrand ten thousand officers in thirty year career, also the founder of the wounded Blue and he joins me now. Thank you so much for being with me this morning, Randy lets talk about what you saw on Wednesday, the response from Capitol police. There has been a lot of analysis of you who the Capitol police handled that situation. What did you see and how do you analyze what happened there? Well first, I would like to send my organizations condolences, thoughts and prayers to the family of Brian Sicknick, who gave his life in the line of duty. He is among five officers this

year alone, who have made that ultimate sacrifice. Im angered, quite honestly, at what I saw as a 34 year, law enforcement professional. What I saw was a failure of law enforcement, leadership of an epic proportion. You know, mass events are the stock and trade of large law enforcement departments and the capitol police is a large department. Two thousand three hundred officers, approximately. It is up to the leadership to create a safe environment for both the people who are in attendance at a rally or at a protest, but its also their responsibility to create a safe environment for their police officers. The fact that more than fifty officers were injured and one was killed, shows that failure of leadership now there should have been

there should have been some contingency plans that were in effect, for instance, there should have been a mutual aid agreement and im sure it exists, but it wasnt put into force with outside agencies, with the d dot c police and with the National Guard and with other agencies there should have been preparations for mass arrests, but whats been happening across the country is that law enforcement has been put in the middle of such an incredibly negative way that everything is scrutinized about what they do. So if there is too much force, which is what happened according to the political left of recent protests, there is too much force, then, if law enforcement acts in such a way as to pull back, as I believe is what happened here, then they get criticized for that.

It is truly a no win situation. Will lieutenant Sutton you talk about you see. In your estimation, from the videos you have seen an effort or a tactic to pull back. You know there are videos floating around and I have to defer to you on the veracity of all of these and the techniques used. Is that what we saw it looked at times that law enforcement was allowing some Reuters rioters to come into the capitol? Is that what was happening? That appeared to be what was happening in some of the video that I saw, and that shows a lack of leadership and direction? Listen. You know the orders of engagement are critical here. This is the officers that are standing. The line only have a view of what is happening in front of them, and law enforcement. Combat is what we saw yesterday in a lot of those instances. Law enforcement combat is something that is so misunderstood by the public and

by the media, who wants to portray law enforcement combat as something that is excessive, no matter what that use of force is thats up. The leadership has to be very clear about what the rules of engagement are will before I run out of time. I want to follow up on that because you said it several times. I think everybody has talked about it, its a question of leadership, and you use the word preparation. I have to ask why: why do you think the Capitol police prepared to be so unprepared for Wednesday? The only thing that I can think about is that you know what we have seen across America is what I call consequences for no consequences. This is what we have seen at protests across America that we are basically everything has been accepted and been nodded at and winked. At I mean Kamala Harris is the queen of consequences for no queens consequences. She was raised millions of

dollars to get people out of jail for doing exactly what we saw in the capitol. The reality is this: this is law enforcement appreciation day. This is a time when the people of America can come together with their law enforcement officers and if they want to support law enforcement, its not that hard, a wink, a smile, a kind word and also keep this in mind that last year, more than fifty eight thousand police officers were assaulted in the line of duty that will be thats continuing on today. If they want to help an organization that helps those injured officers, go to the wounded, blue dot, Org, slash, tone, Nate, and you can actually take part in helping one of the nine thousand police officers that we have helped over the last year and a half in a really positive way. Will im happy you Prout it back to where we started and thats honoring, in this case Brian Sicknick, but also all the officers that are wounded or

loss of life in the line of duty and theres a rot of questions to answer about what happened on Wednesday. In honor of national law enforcement appreciation day, we should keep our focus on that at the beginning and the end as you did thanks so much lieutenant.