{"id":1932359,"date":"2023-05-17T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-police-chief-says-he-had-no-contact-with-pelosis-office-before-jan-6\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T05:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:41:53","slug":"dc-police-chief-says-he-had-no-contact-with-pelosis-office-before-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-police-chief-says-he-had-no-contact-with-pelosis-office-before-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Police Chief denies contact with Pelosi&#8217;s office prior to Jan. 6."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-police-chief-says-he-had-no-contact-with-pelosis-office-before-jan-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Washington Police Chief Denies Contact with Pelosi&#8217;s Office Ahead of Jan. 6 Attack<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Contee, the chief of Washington\u2019s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), testified on May 16 that he had no contact with the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions Raised During House Oversight Committee Hearing<\/h3>\n<p>During a hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser whether she or her office had contact with the speaker\u2019s office, the sergeant-at-arms, or any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-chief-resists-biden-i-cannot-comply-with-demand-to-use-non-legal-immigration-terms\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Chief Resists Biden: \u2018I Cannot\u2019 Comply With Demand To Use Non-Legal Immigration Terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">federal law enforcement<\/a> agency<\/a> about intelligence of a likelihood of violence on Jan. 6. Gosar did not specify which sergeant-at-arms, as there is one each on the House and Senate side.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser deferred to Contee, given that MPD works with federal law enforcement on First Amendment-related activities in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<h3>Contee&#8217;s Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>Contee said there were \u201cseveral conversations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-radio-reporter-arrested-for-firebombing-police-cars\/\" title=\"Public Radio \u201cReporter\u201d Arrested For Firebombing Police Cars\">law enforcement officials<\/a>,\u201d including the Capitol Police and both the House and Senate sergeant-at-arms prior to Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Gosar if he had any talks with the speaker\u2019s office ahead of Jan. 6, Contee said, \u201cI had no personal conversation with the speaker\u2019s office. I \u2026 believe that the architect of the Capitol was also involved in those conversations. But I don\u2019t recall specifically the speaker\u2019s office being part of that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The architect of the Capitol is in charge of maintaining and developing the Capitol grounds.<\/p>\n<h3>Law Enforcement&#8217;s Actions Ahead of Jan. 6<\/h3>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police Department was sent to the Capitol on Jan. 6, followed hours later by the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The report by the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Committee noted that law enforcement had \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d of possible violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but the report did not blame law enforcement over its actions ahead of that day.<\/p>\n<p>Contee, who will depart MPD on June 3, testified that he had no contact with Pelosi&#8217;s office ahead of the Jan. 6 attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Department Chief, Robert Contee, testified that he had no communication with Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s office before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Rep. Paul Gosar questioned D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser during a House Oversight Committee hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1932360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5772,9750,4775,6936,5660,9323,3967,13555],"class_list":["post-1932359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-chief","tag-contact","tag-denies","tag-jan","tag-office","tag-pelosis","tag-police","tag-prior"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}