DHS says it is estimating roughly 700 people will attend the 'Justice for J6' rally in Washington, DC, on Saturday, and the agency has taken steps to make sure law enforcement is better prepared than it was prior to Jan. 6.
has also learned via social media that similar protests are planned in other cities across the country.
DHS expects a much smaller turn-out this weekend. To gauge the potential size of Saturday's crowd, she said, DHS has been tracking publicly available information on protesters, U.S. Park Police permit applications for large gatherings and hotel reservations across the U.S.Federal law enforcement agencies, namely DHS and the FBI, have been pressed by members of Congress onin D.C. about the risk of violence ahead of Jan. 6.
"What we realized after January 6 is that we had gotten a little bit lax in some of the aggressive conversations," Smislova said, speaking of DHS's bi-weekly calls and outreach to state and local law enforcement about threats in their area."Some of it was a lack of discipline, complacency maybe even...The information was still out there, but you had to actually seek it out as opposed to having it brought to you.
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