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Members of the Community Police Review Board, the Lawrence Police Department and city staff discuss issues raised by a community survey at the board s meeting April 23, 2021.
Based on community survey responses, the Community Police Review Board will be considering several issues as it continues to draft changes to provide oversight of complaints against police, including whether the board can play a more active role in complaint investigations.
As part of its meeting Thursday evening, the board discussed the more than 250 survey responses it received regarding proposed changes to the ordinance. The survey asked multichoice questions, but also provided space for respondents to leave comments to explain their responses.
House Sergeant-at-Arms ordered security barricades moved the day before January 6 attack on the Capitol
During a House Administration Committee hearing on Wednesday, it was revealed that those attacking the Capitol on January 6 were aided by what were described as “illogical” security decisions from then House Sergeant at Arms (SAA) Paul Irving.
The revelation came in the course of a question-and-answer session between the ranking Republican on the committee, Rodney Davis of Illinois, and Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton. Davis told Bolton that an email was uncovered “this week” that revealed, “a US Capitol Police directive initiated by then House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving to the Architect of the Capitol sent on January 5.”
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A top GOP senator is demanding to know why the U.S. Capitol Police claimed Officer Brian Sicknick suffered mortal injuries while on duty and after clashing with protesters during the Capitol riot in light of the District of Columbia’s chief medical examiner s ruling that Sicknick died of natural causes.
The Capitol Police announced Sicknick, 42, died on Jan. 7, one day after rioters broke into the Capitol as lawmakers counted electoral votes to affirm President Joe Biden s victory over former President Donald Trump. In its statement, the department said Sicknick was injured while physically engaging with protesters and that he was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.” While the department did not provide further details on the record, the
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By Michael W. Chapman | April 23, 2021 | 12:26pm EDT
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(CNS News) Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) sent a letter to the U.S. Capitol Police this week, seeking answers as to why its office claimed in a Jan. 7 press release that Officer Brian Sicknick died due to injuries sustained while on-duty during the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol when the D.C. Medical Examiner announced on April 19 that Sicknick died of natural causes.
In the April 22 letter to Yoganda D. Pittman, the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, Sen. Johnson writes, The recent medical examiner ruling that Officer Sicknick died of natural causes raises questions regarding the USCP’s press release on January 7, 2021, that stated Officer Sicknick died from injuries sustained while on-duty after physically engaging with protestors at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.