Uneventful Sunday at fortified Statehouse
January 18th, 2021 by Ric Hanson
(Radio Iowa) – It was an uneventful Sunday at the Iowa statehouse where there’s enhanced security after an F-B-I warning there could be armed protests at all 50 state Capitols in the days leading up to the Inauguration. An online posting indicated there would be a midday march at the Iowa Capitol. A business nearby closed as a precaution, but a security official on the scene said only three people arrived around noon and were gone by 12:30.
K-C-C-I T-V reports one of the three Iowa Capitol protesters was armed with a knife and had a bull horn. The largest protest yesterday (Sunday) appears to have been at the state Capitol in Michigan where several dozen gathered, some of whom were armed with guns. Fewer than a dozen protesters were outside Minnesota’s Capitol.