In many cases, those who stormed the Capitol appeared to employ tactics, body armour and technology such as two-way radio headsets that were similar to those of the very police they were confronting.
Another Air Force veteran from San Diego was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to leap through a barricade near the House chamber. A retired Navy SEAL, among the most elite special warfare operators in the military, posted a Facebook video about travelling from his Ohio home to the rally and seemingly approving of the invasion of "our building, our house."
The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police was forced to resign following the breach and several officers have been suspended pending the outcome of investigations into their conduct, including one who posed for a selfie with a rioter and another who was seen wearing one of Trump's red "Make America Great Again" caps.
Stewart Rhodes, an Army veteran who founded the Oath Keepers in 2009 as a reaction to the presidency of Barack Obama, had been saying for weeks before the Capitol riot that his group was preparing for a civil war and was "armed, prepared to go in if the president calls us up." Army commanders at Fort Bragg in North Carolina are investigating the possible involvement of Capt. Emily Rainey, the 30-year-old psychological operations officer and Afghanistan war veteran who told the AP she travelled with 100 others to Washington to "stand against election fraud." She insisted she acted within Army regulations and that no one in her group entered the Capitol or broke the law.
Meanwhile, police departments in such major cities as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston and Philadelphia announced they were investigating whether members of their agencies participated in the Capitol riot. The Philadelphia area's transit authority is also investigating whether seven of its police officers who attended Trump's rally in Washington broke any laws.
Enabling TrudeauIncompetencePM
you gonna report on what hapoen here or you just focus on USA
Trump supporters demonstrating to the whole world exactly why walls do not actually work.
Were were you when BLM and antifa were burning down cities, looting and murdering? You were SILENT.
Antifa antifa antifa you are fake news
also CNN n Antifa leader.
And you are fake newsssss
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Antifa was there too , why don’t you mention that?
Oh,oh ,looks like the interns found the key to the liquor cabinet
When are you going to focus on the shitty job our leader is doing here in Canada? It would be great if our Canadian media held Trudeau as accountable as you hold Trump!