Julian Khater and George Tanios are charged with assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Sicknick later died, but the men have not been charged with homicide.
A US Capitol Police officer was suspended on Monday after an anti-Semitic document was found near his work area, the department said.
A congressional aide spotted a printed copy of The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion Sunday at a checkpoint inside an entrance to the Longworth House Office Building. As I left my office in Longworth yesterday, I discovered something that, as a Jew, horrified me. At the United States Capitol Police security checkpoint, someone had left vile anti-Semitic propaganda in plain sight, Zach Fisch, the chief of staff for New York Rep. Mondaire Jones tweeted Monday.
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U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer on Monday after anti-Semitic reading material was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, according to a department spokesman.
The Washington Post first reported that the document was seen in plain sight at a checkpoint by a congressional aide. It appeared from photos viewed by the Post that the text, Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, was sitting on a table inside an entrance to the Longworth House Office Building.
Capitol Police acting Chief Yogananda Pittman on Monday ordered the officer to be suspended and the officer is expected to remain suspended pending an outcome of an investigation by the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility.