U.S. Park Police were woefully understaffed as they faced a large mob of violent far-Left extremists on Wednesday who attacked law enforcement and destroyed property during a riot.

The pro-Hamas extremists tore down American flags and burned them while chanting “Allahu Akbar” and waving Hamas terrorist flags. Numerous videos posted online also showed them attacking law enforcement officials. They also vandalized statues and fountains, police said.

Kenneth Spencer, the Chairman of the United States Park Police Fraternal Order of Police (USPP FOP), said that U.S. Park Police on the ground “did everything they could to protect life and property.”

“In fact, despite having only 29 officers available to mitigate damage – 29! – with no additional help from the Department of the Interior, we processed several arrests for charges ranging from assault on a police officer to destruction of government property,” he said. “That’s why it’s so disheartening to hear some Members of Congress and members of the media, many of whom describe themselves as ‘champions’ of law enforcement, suggesting that officers gave protesters a ‘pass’ or that insufficient arrests were made.”

“Nothing could be further from the truth – anyone who truly cares to understand the problem would see that our officer staffing crisis is at the root of our agency’s mission readiness,” he continued. “A small unit of 29 officers arrested 10 individuals while being assaulted by a mob of thousands. We simply did not have the staffing or resources to accomplish a mass arrest operation.”

He pointed the finger directly at the Biden-Harris administration for standing “in the way of congressional action on the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act which would solve many of these issues for decades to come.”

New: U.S. Park Police (@1791FOP) explain why few arrests were made outside of Union Station yesterday, they only had 29 officers for crowd control and they did everything they could.

“We simply did not have the staffing or resources to accomplish a mass arrest operation.” pic.twitter.com/bGjdwmnBUY

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) July 25, 2024

The 15-year veteran told the New York Post that the agency is “primarily alone” after the federal government has failed to beef up the agency.

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“Especially in the DC area, everybody’s so understaffed just like we are,” he explained. “We have a huge mission. We’re the agency that protects First Amendment rights when people come to visit DC.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris falsely suggested that former President Donald Trump agreed to debate her in September and that he was now trying to back out of the debate.

“I’m ready to debate Donald Trump,” she told reporters. “I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10th debate, he agreed to that previously, now it appears he’s back-peddling.”

“But I’m ready, and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage and so I’m ready,” she added. “Let’s go.”

The claim is false because Trump never agreed to debate Harris on September 10th; he agreed to debate President Joe Biden, who has since dropped out of the race because of his disastrous June debate performance. The performance was do bad that it injected his cognitive decline into the mainstream discourse after the media and the Democrat Party tried to hide it and his poll numbers subsequently cratered.

NEW VIDEO: VP Harris says she’s “ready” to debate Trump pic.twitter.com/yRCW4y8AQQ

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 25, 2024

Trump said earlier this week that he was willing to have multiple debates with Harris, but he wants to move the debate off of ABC News because of how biased the network is.

However, following a CNN poll that was subsequently released that found that 73% of Democrat voters want someone else other than Harris to be the nominee, the Trump Campaign said that he now wants to wait to see who the party’s official nominee will be before the campaign agrees to anything.

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“Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the Trump Campaign said in a statement. “There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party – namely Barack Hussein Obama – that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone ‘better.'”

“Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds,” the statement added.