yogananda pittman
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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 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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Security Officials Testify to Senate That Violent Capitol Insurrection Was Unforeseeable, Blame Breakdown in Intelligence
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists on Jan. 6 was able to happen because of poor planning by security officials. In his testimony at the Senate’s joint oversight hearing into security failures related to…
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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…