Former Washington, DC, police chief Charles Ramsey told CNN today that authorities must urgently clear the US Capitol building and anyone who breached the building ought to be arrested.
"They have to reestablish a perimeter," said Ramsey, speaking on CNN as an unknown number individuals continued to occupy the US Capitol hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed it.
"Anybody inside that building … ought to be face-down in handcuffs right now," said Ramsey. "They need to be locking them up ... but first they have to gain control and right now they do not have control."
As to why authorities have been unable to secure the US Capitol complex grounds so far, Ramsey said officials may be staging for a coordinated operation.
"Maybe they are assembling somewhere trying to get their battle plan together in terms of how they are going to handle it," said Ramsey, who led the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia for nearly 10 years.
"They have to reestablish a perimeter and get them out of the building," he said. "They need to get started as soon as they possibly can."
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