U.S. House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker has assured the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol that if the seditionists had been African Americans the response would have been «vastly different.»
Walker, who was in charge of managing the work of the National Guard during the assault on the Capitol, expressed himself in these terms according to the transcripts of part of his appearance before the House committee investigating those events, which were published on Tuesday.
«I am African-American. Child of the 1960s. I think it would have been a vastly different response if it was African-Americans trying to storm the Capitol,» said Walker, who believes there would have been «more bloodshed» if the crowd had not been overwhelmingly white.
Walker’s statements are similar to those voiced by many Americans, including President Joe Biden, who compared the law enforcement response to the Washington demonstration to the protests over the deaths of African-American citizens, such as George Floyd.
During his speech before the committee, Walker also denounced racism within law enforcement, as well as arrests based on racial prejudice, or how it is common among black parents to have «the conversation» with their children about how to act the day they are stopped by the police.
Walker, a highly decorated agent with DEA experience, has criticized that it took so long not only to react but also to prevent an attack that months earlier had been brewing in the eyes of «everyone» since former President Donald Trump ordered his supporters to come to Washington that day.
«November was the run-up, in December it was practiced and on January 6 it was executed,» said Walker, who has reproached the authorities for having looked the other way when it was the same groups who months earlier had been staging altercations in other protests, NBC reports.
Elected Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in April 2021, that January 6, 2020 Walker was in command of the National Guard which was only asked to intervene a little more than three hours after a violent crowd broke through the scant security of the Capitol and stormed the building.
Despite obvious failures in the prevention and security systems, as well as warnings from reliable FBI sources about the possibility of an attack of this magnitude, the special committee on the assault on the Capitol has finally decided to focus its conclusions on the involvement of former President Trump in everything that happened, relegating this issue to an appendix of the report.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
