Democratic lawmaker suspects protesters were assisted by Capitol Police

Bowman is currently drafting legislation to call for a commission to investigate the Capitol Police and whether any of its members have ties to white nationalists and white nationalist sympathizers, he told Mother Jones magazine.

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters also called for an investigation of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who announced his resignation in the aftermath of the riot, for the lack of security at the Capitol building Wednesday. The sergeants-at-arms of the House and Senate also resigned.

“[Sund] was telling us that he had it all under control. It turned out he had nothing under control. Nothing under control. And we were overrun. The Capitol of the United States of America, one of the most supposedly secure buildings in the country, was breached, and with them climbing the wall, it looked like a third-world country overtake of the government,” Waters told SiriusXM host Joe Madison.

“And when we saw them breaking into our windows and going into Statuary Hall and going on the floor of the chambers of the House and the Senate, and how they found Nancy Pelosi’s office, I do not know. You would not know how to get to Nancy’s office. I asked him every question I could think of,” she added.

Protesters not only managed to bust into the Capitol complex by brute force, but several videos have emerged that appear to show officers waving protesters through barricades outside, while others appear to show them being allowed inside by police through a west-side entrance with no metal detectors. The group ran up the stairs to Statuary Hall.

One officer could be heard in a video saying, “I don’t agree with this.”

One Hill source, however, told the Washington Examiner Friday, “The Capitol Police wouldn’t let them in bypassing weapons screening unless they were instructed to do so. Speaker Pelosi controls the Capitol building.”

Capitol Police arrested only 14 people.