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On Thursday, former President Donald Trump released a statement denouncing the prosecution of hundreds of his supporters who mobbed the Capitol during the January 6 riot. “Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election,” Trump said in a statement issued by his Save America PAC. “In addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a two-tiered system of justice. In the end, however, JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!” Trump’s statement came as the Capitol Police has been boosting securit...
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The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on Saturday announced that six of its officers were being suspended with pay for their misconduct during the January 6 riot that an internal investigation found. In a statement, the department’s office of professional responsibility said it has conducted 38 internal investigations related to the misconduct during the riot. The probe found six confirmed cases that violated the department’s regulations and policies and were recommended for disciplinary measures. “The six sustained cases should not diminish the heroic efforts of the United States Capitol Police offi...
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A 44-year-old man from California was arrested near the Democratic National Committee (DNC) building Monday morning after the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) found illegal weapons in his car. The officials confirmed that Donald Craighead, the arrested man, possessed bayonet and machete, the prohibited weapons in Washington, D.C., in his car. “Around midnight, a Special Operation Division Officer was on patrol when he noticed a Dodge Dakota pickup truck, with a swastika and other white supremacist symbols painted on it, outside of the DNC headquarters,” the statement from the USCP reads. “The truck ...
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Seven Capitol Police officers are suing former President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the suit Thursday morning, claiming that Trump, alongside militias and other associates, violated the Ku Klux Klan Act and D.C. law during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The suit states: “Because of Defendants’ unlawful actions, Plaintiffs were violently assaulted, spat on, tear-gassed, bear-sprayed, subjected to racial slurs and epithets, and put in fear for their lives. Plaintiffs’ injuries, which Def...
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A new internal investigation of the Capitol Police’s response to the January 6 Capitol insurrection found that an on-duty officer instructed units by radio to only monitor anti-Trump agitators “who want to start a fight” and not “pro-Trump in the crowd.” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California) described the radio broadcast during a House Administration Committee. Lofgren said that the broadcast was first discovered by the Department Office of Professional Responsibility while reviewing Capitol Police officer misconduct allegations. A Capitol Police spokesperson later specified that the radio broadcast...
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President Joe Biden spoke at the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday, paying tribute to Capitol Police Officer William Evans who was killed after a man rammed his car into him and another officer at the Capitol complex on April 2. Biden was joined by Evans’ family for the event. “Your son, your husband, your brother, your dad was a hero,” Biden said, then addressing the fallen officer’s children, “You are going to make it by holding each other together. By holding Logan and Abigail as tightly as you can. As long as you have them, you have Billy.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) remini...
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Former President Donald Trump‘s attempts to rewrite the events of the Capitol insurrection were undercut on Wednesday by a new lawsuit from two Capitol police officers who were on duty during the riots on January 6. Trump’s recent claims that rioters posed “zero threat’ to law enforcement were contradicted by the officers’ lawsuit. Officer James Blassingame wrote in his legal complaint that he “is haunted by the memory of being attacked, and of the sensory impacts – the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of the attack remain close to the surface…. He experiences guilt of being unable to he...
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Officials from the Capitol Police in D.C. have confirmed that a suspect is in custody after striking two Capitol Police officers with a vehicle. The collision occurred at the north entrance to the Capitol complex. “A suspect is in custody,” the Capitol Police said in a statement via Twitter. “Both officers are injured. All three have been transported to the hospital.” Images from the Capitol Complex show several police vehicles and two stretchers at the north entrance. Another account showed a helicopter landing on the Capitol Complex with no helipad below it, indicating urgency. Congress is c...
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Federico Klein, a State Department aide appointed by former President Donald Trump, was arrested by the F.B.I. last Thursday after being identified as one of the leaders of the January 6 Capitol insurrection. A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Klein will remain in police custody until his trial, likely months away. Klein is accused of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or wi...
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The D.C. Capitol Police’s Office of Professional Responsibility is currently investigating 35 officers for connections to January 6 Capitol insurrection and have already suspended six. The office released a statement Friday stating, “Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman has directed that any member of her department whose behavior is not in keeping with the Department’s Rules of Conduct will face appropriate discipline.” Rep.Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is heading the House committee overseeing Capitol Police funding has said that members of the Capitol Police may have been complicit with the rioters. The risi...
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