United States Capitol Police
President Trump Wrecked Lives on Jan. 6. I Should Know.
As one of the Capitol Police officers who defended the United States against the mob on Jan. 6, 2021, I felt it was important for me to be in the committee room on June 28 to hear the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Along with three colleagues, I went, even though I knew […]
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‘Late Show’ Producers Arrested at U.S. Capitol While Filming
The police at the United States Capitol have arrested members of a production team for the CBS show “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” who were filming a segment featuring a salty canine puppet voiced by the comedian Robert Smigel. The Capitol Police said on Friday that they had arrested seven people in a hallway […]
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Jan. 6 Panel Says Capitol Marcher Toured With G.O.P. Congressman
WASHINGTON — A man who toured the Capitol complex with a Republican lawmaker the day before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack later marched on the building while making threats against Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats, the House committee investigating the attack said on Wednesday. The panel released surveillance video of a tour of […]
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Republicans Try to Undercut Jan. 6 Committee With Inaccurate Claims
Hours before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot opens its public hearings, Republican lawmakers sought to portray the panel as illegitimate. In a news conference, they denounced the committee’s formation, its work and Speaker Nancy Pelosi with inaccurate claims. Here’s a fact check. What Was Said “It has been caught altering evidence, including the […]
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Jan. 6 Inquiry Presses Republican Lawmaker About Capitol Tour
WASHINGTON — The leaders of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol asked a Republican congressman on Thursday to submit to questioning about a tour of the complex he gave one day before the riot, saying they were looking into whether rioters had conducted reconnaissance of the building before the rampage. […]
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Trial Begins for Former N.Y.P.D. Officer on Jan. 6 Charges
Among the many violent scuffles that erupted during the riot at the Capitol, this one stood out. On one side of the barricade was a lightly armored Washington, D.C., police officer, standing with his colleagues to defend the building against a mob of Trump supporters. Confronting him from the other side, brandishing a flagpole, was […]
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Foxes and D.C. Politicians Don’t Mix, As This Week and History Show
When a call about a fox sighting at the U.S. Capitol came in Monday night, it wasn’t a shocking turn of events for Christine Leonard, the director of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the Architect of the Capitol. “While it often is not very visible to the public,” she said, “it is […]
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Judge Finds Man Not Guilty in First Jan. 6 Acquittal
A federal judge decided on Wednesday that a former government contractor from New Mexico who claimed that the police let him into the Capitol during last year’s pro-Trump riot was not guilty of four petty offenses, the first acquittal connected to the sprawling investigation of the attack. At a two-day bench trial in Federal District […]
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‘Traitors Get Shot’: Son Testifies Against Father in Jan. 6 Trial
WASHINGTON — When an oil-field worker named Guy Wesley Reffitt returned to Texas after taking part in the attack on the Capitol last year, his welcome home was not entirely warm. He bragged to his family about confronting the police outside the building and promised that the violence there was only “the beginning,” according to […]
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