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Before he was picked to investigate the attack on the Capitol – before he was asked to report on what went wrong in Charlottesville, Tim Heaphy was the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.

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In that capacity, he often worked with law enforcement, and he concludes now that violence in Charlottesville and Washington marked a failure by police.

“In advance of Unite the Right or in advance of January 6th, there was ample information available through open sources suggesting violence, yet law enforcement just was not prepared,” he recalls.

And in both cases, Heaphy notes, social media allowed organizers to spread hate and false information beforehand.

“Each of them started with a core issue.

In Charlottesville it was statues. In the Capitol it was this false belief that the election was stolen, but they spread to become broad expressions of anger. That’s really – to me – the undercurr Heaphy Report Explains How Charlottesville Protests Spun Out ... QEX