Capitol Police

House Democrat leadership issued a statement saying the violent riot outside of the DNC “exceeded a peaceful demonstration.” 

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund described January 6 as a “cover-up” in a leaked interview with Tucker Carlson that Fox News refused to air, the National Pulse revealed.

Tucker Carlson told actor Russell Brand that he interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, saying he was told the January 6 protest crowd “was filled with federal agents.”

Daniel “DJ” Rodriguez, who tased a police officer during the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The U.S. Capitol will reportedly increase security levels in preparation for the reported indictment Tuesday of former President Donald Trump.

The family of a Capitol Police officer who died the day after he fended off the rioters on January 6 refused to shake the hand of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at a ceremony honoring those who defended lawmakers as the mayhem unfolded throughout that day.

United States Capitol Police officers were not watching the live feed of security cameras outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) home the night an intruder broke in and attacked Pelosi’s husband, sources familiar with the matter told the Washington Post.

On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’ “The Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert addressed the arrest of some of his staff by Capitol Police and said that “the Capitol Police were just doing their job. My staff was just doing their job.”

An internal Capitol Police report on January 6 protest revealed extensive security failures on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) watch.

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” co-host and Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto reported that after the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Roe v. Wade, “Capitol Police are warning the far right is calling for violence against a religious group planning to rally for abortion rights.”

A woman, bound at the limbs, leapt from the eighth story of a Washington, DC, apartment building to flee an attacker Thursday, per a report.

Jamarcus Purley, a former staffer who was fired from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) office, entered the U.S. Capitol and smoked a marijuana blunt in the California Democrat’s office.

House Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton on Wednesday, noting that Republicans are increasingly being viewed as a “threat” than lawmakers to be protected. 

A former U.S. Capitol Police official has alleged that department leadership failed to heed warning signs on January 6. 

Honoring her birthday, former President Donald Trump sent a personal message to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who would have turned 36 this weekend had she not been shot and killed during the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Saturday’s “Justice for J6” rally attracted a few hundred demonstrators and ended without any major incidents .

The fencing around the Capitol installed after the January 6 riot and removed in July is up again as an unknown number of people are expected to show up on Saturday to protest the treatment of those jailed after the incident.

Long-time Republican political operative Roger Stone called on “patriots” to avoid the upcoming “Justice for J6” rally, describing it as “agitprop” and a “setup,” while warning that largely government operatives will be attending.

Ashli Babbitt’s shooter on January 6 was identified on Thursday as “Lieutenant Michael Leroy Byrd,” Newsweek reported. 

The Capitol Police, tasked with protecting members of Congress, is for the first time setting up field offices in San Francisco and Florida.

The president hosted a signing ceremony Thursday for a bill awarding Capitol Police officers a Congressional Gold Medal for their response to the January 6th riots.

Republican staffers defied Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday evening by playing beer pong (with water) in a Capitol office hallway, smoking cigars, and socializing — without masks, courting arrest by Capitol Police.

It is therefore crucial that the Capitol Police, even more than other police forces, be seen as above politics. Yet Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is politicizing the Capitol Police into a partisan Praetorian Guard.

Many House Republicans have announced plans to defy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “unlawful and tyrannical” arrest order.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) announced on Thursday she is instructing her staff to work from home to evade House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) draconian mask rule — which authorizes Capitol Police to arrest violators who resist compliance — emphasizing that “no one should be arrested over a mask.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday gave her absolute, unconditional surrender to the Chinese coronavirus by forcing Congressional members and staff to wear special “well-fitted” super masks, before ordering the U.S. Capitol Police to arrest those who do not comply.

Lawmakers and witnesses teared up during the first meeting House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol on Tuesday, where Democrats highlighted personal recollections from that day.

The would-have-been ranking member of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) January 6 select committee, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), believes the questions he posed in preparation for the committee’s first hearing “spooked” the speaker into rejecting his committee membership.

The Capitol Police is poised to begin using the same military surveillance systems that troops used against terrorists overseas.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), along with others, was arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building by Capitol Police on Thursday after she led a protest into the building.

Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Republicans are the only party that both disrespects and defunds the police.

The embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has used campaign funds to hire private security after receiving death threats, according to reports.

In his Monday interview with NBC News, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. government of assassinating Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran whom Capitol Police shot during the January 6 riot.

On Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot and killed by a police officer during the January 6 U.S. Capitol Riot, said he believed he now knows the identity of the officer responsible for the shooting.

U.S. Capitol Police Assistant Chief Chad Thomas has resigned amid ongoing investigations into the January 6 Capitol riot and prior to an upcoming report on the events of that day, according to media reports.

Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission to continue the politicization of events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, saying that those who oppose her “are afraid of the truth.”