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The U.S. Capitol Police Labor Union voted 92% against Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman in vote of confidence in her leadership Monday.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Series: The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election The riot squad defending the embattled entrance to the west side of the U.S. Capitol was surrounded by violence. Rioters had clambered up the […]

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica The riot squad defending the embattled entrance to the west side of the U.S. Capitol was surrounded by violence. Rioters had clambered up the scaffolding by the stage erected for the inauguration of President Joseph Biden. They hurled everything they could get their hands on at the cops beneath: rebar, plywood, power tools, even cans of food they had frozen for extra damage. In front of the cops, a mob was mounting a fr...

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters...

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US Capitol police to hold no confidence vote against senior leadership ANI | Updated: Feb 11, 2021 07:02 IST Washington [US], February 11 (ANI): Members of the USCapitol police are planning to hold a vote of no confidence in the forces leadership this week over its failure to adequately prepare officers for the January 6 insurrection by a violent mob of former President Donald Trumps supporters. The Capitol Police unions executive board called this week for...

Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda D. Pittman sent out an internal memo to rank-and-file officers ahead of Thursday’s vote of no confidence called for by the U.S. Capitol Police's labor union. 

Members of the US Capitol Police plan to hold a vote of no confidence Thursday, more than a month after the January 6 riot at the Capitol that left dozens of officers injured and led to the death of officer Brian Sicknick.

Members of the U.S. Capitol Police plan to hold a vote of no confidence in the force's leadership this week over its failure to adequately prepare officers for the Jan. 6 insurrection by a violent mob of former President Trump's supporters.