capitol police
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Former Cop Arrested for Storming Capitol Was Once Named 'Officer of the Year' After Falsely Accusing Black Man of Murder
A former Utah police officer who won one of his department’s highest honors for a false murder arrest has been charged with crossing the “thin blue line” in the Jan. 6 plot to overthrow the U.S. government. The FBI’s joint terrorism task force, along with Utah’s State Bureau of Investigation, arrested retired Salt Lake City…
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Man Rams Vehicle Into US Capitol Barrier Killing 1 Police Officer and Injuring a 2nd. Motive of Attack Still Under Investigation
A few months ago, the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., suffered a deadly attack during which a Capitol police officer was killed. Now, as lawmakers are debating how much security is still needed at the Capitol, another attack happened Friday when a man rammed his car into a barrier near the Capitol building and then…
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Capitol Police Says Militia Planning March 4 Attack; General Says Pentagon Took 3 Hours to Approve National Guard to Subdue Insurrection
There’s still a lot being unpacked regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and it doesn’t help that white supremacist militia groups are apparently planning another attack in Washington, D.C., tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. That’s according to a release issued by the U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday, saying the department has received intelligence that a militia group…
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Capitol Chief Says Extremists Want to 'Blow Up the Capitol' at Biden's State of the Union Address
The U.S. Capitol is still at risk of a domestic terrorist attack—potentially one even bigger than the violence white supremacist extremists targeted the halls of Congress with on Jan. 6. At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the insurrection Thursday, acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, revealed that the extremist groups who were…
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6 Capitol Officers Suspended (With Pay) for Behavior During Jan. 6 Insurrection; 29 More Under Investigation
While the behavior of many of the police officers who faced the enormous mob of Trump supporters and QAnon adherents at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been lauded—cops like Eugene Goodman, the Black Capitol officer credited with leading the violent insurgents away from the Senate chambers—it’s hard to forget the images of some…
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Federal Watchdogs Launch Investigations After Lackluster Defense Against Capitol Attack
The accountability hammer is hopefully about to drop on the federal agencies who allowed a mass of white supremacists to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with a surprising absence of the kind of forceful pushback from law enforcement that we know this country can bring to bear. Inspectors general at the Justice…
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Capitol Police Officer in DC Riot Dies by Suicide; Chief Steps Down Earlier Than Expected Amid Criticism of Police Response
The attack on the U.S. Capitol might be over (at least for now), but the fallout continues as more of the criminals who attempted a siege on the building are being sought out and arrested, and calls for Donald Trump’s immediate removal from office have intensified. There is also the non-shocking revelation that off-duty police…
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Color Me Shocked: 2 Virginia Police Officers Fired for Ties to White Supremacist Orgs
Frankly, the shock is not so much that two Virginia police officers from separate jurisdictions were caught tied to two distinct, respective white supremacist groups, but that they were fired after said affiliations became known. For years, there has been evidence that law enforcement has been targeted and infiltrated by white supremacist organizations; something that…