Arkansas man charged in attack on D.C. police officer at Capitol Advertisement He’s alleged to have beaten a Washington police officer guarding a Capitol entrance with an American flag attached to a pole. A man identified in court documents as Peter Stager allegedly partook in the riot and assaulted the officer from the Washington, D.C., police department. The officer was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol after 4 p.m., when members of the mob grabbed him, dragged him down a set of stairs, forced him into a prone position and proceeded to forcibly and repeatedly strike him, according ...