Kristina Serafinia | Tribune-Review
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Carnegie Mellon University officials on Tuesday issued a harsh statement condemning speech that may have incited last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, as debate over comments by some of its leading scholars raised eyebrows in academic circles across the country.
In a letter issued to the university community, a long list of administrators and deans joined CMU President Farnam Jahanian and Provost James Garrett in expressing horror at the deadly attack that left a Capitol Police officer and four rioters, including one who was shot, dead as an angry mob stormed through Washington, seeking to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
Rick Saccone finally made it to Congress Wednesday.
The former Republican state representative from the Elizabeth area who came within a whisker of winning the 2018 special election that sent U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb to Capitol Hill was there Wednesday, but not as a lawmaker. Rather, he was part of the foaming-at-the-mouth throng that laid siege to the Capitol during what should have been the routine and ceremonial certification of the electoral votes that will make Joe Biden and Kamala Harris president and vice president within days.
None of the hours of news footage of the mob ransacking the Capitol show Saccone among them, but he was at the very least a hugely enthusiastic cheerleader for the mayhem.
With their reputations at stake, companies are taking swift action against employees who breached the U.S. Capitol as well as some who say they merely attended Wednesday’s rally at President Donald’s Trump’s urging.
Some of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol were fired from their jobs Thursday after internet sleuths publicized their identities.
The District of Columbia Police Department released photos of people in Wednesday's melee and potential charges against them.