Racial Double Standard of Capitol Police Draws Outcry
Black Lives Matter activists said the tepid response from law enforcement officers to mostly white protesters stood in stark contrast to the aggressive tactics they have endured for years.
Hundreds of activists marched through the streets of Minneapolis the day after November’s election, advocating for an end to police brutality. The group eventually marched onto an Interstate where law enforcement surrounded them and demanded that everyone sit down to be arrested.Credit.Kerem Yucel/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Published Jan. 7, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
While protesting the police killing of a Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., several years ago, Johnetta Elzie said she was manhandled by officers. She said they pointed rifles at Black women who were pushing toddlers in strollers and cursed at them to turn around.
How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a monumental security failure
Peter Hermann, Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis and David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON - Inside the U.S. Capitol, the rioters were in charge.
Trump supporters were roaming freely, carrying off furniture. Capitol Police had not asked other law enforcement agencies for help until their building was surrounded by a mob seeking to overturn the election results. Now, their officers were exhausted and injured. Their chief was down the street, in the department command center, and a police commander on the scene was pacing in a circle. Top congressional leaders, hidden in secure rooms, were calling the governors of Maryland and Virginia directly to plead for help.
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The staff at a local Chicago restaurant is receiving death threats after social media posts showed that Tank Noodle’s owners traveled to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 5, to support President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday night, social media posts with photos of the owners of began surfacing on Twitter, showing them on a plane to the nation’s capital with the intention of participating in protests opposing Trump’s Election Day defeat to Joe Biden.
Wednesday’s rally in D.C. turned violent as Americans watched rioters breach the U.S. Capitol in an effort to disrupt Biden’s certification as president. Lawmakers were forced to evacuate, United States Capitol Police fatally shot one of the rioters a 35-year-old woman. Three others also reportedly died in or near the Capitol. On Thursday, the House Committee on Homeland Security called the protest a domestic terrorist attack. As photographs and videos of the attempted coup circulated after crowds dispersed, Chicag