Law enforcement officials are bracing for possible serious security breaches and violent assaults ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing in next week. State and federal officials are taking no chances as the countdown begins for Inauguration Day.
The heightened security comes after a violent siege at the U.S. Capitol last week from pro-Trump supporters that resulted in the death of five people and forced lawmakers into hiding.
The FBI is seeing “an extensive amount of concerning online chatter…about a number of events surrounding the inauguration,” according to the bureau’s director Christopher Wray.
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