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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Stay or go? Fence, Guard pose Capitol security questions

WASHINGTON — Nobody, it seems, wants to keep the security fence around the U.S. Capitol anymore — except the police who fought off the horrific attack on Jan. 6. 

Lawmakers call the razor-topped fencing “ghastly,” too militarized and, with the armed National Guard troops still stationed at the Capitol since a pro-Trump mob laid siege, not at all representative of the world’s leading icon of democracy.

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Now it's a horrific attack? I expect by next month it'll be upgraded to a massacre.