Tag: U.S. Capitol Police

EXCLUSIVE: US Capitol to Reopen Galleries to Public After Over 2 Years

The House and Senate Galleries, where the public can view legislative proceedings, have been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic began but The Epoch Times has learned exclusively that the galleries will finally be reopened to visitors. “We are in the process of reopening them in September,” a spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) told The Epoch…


EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police Officers Were Investigated, Some Found Guilty of Being Friendly to Jan. 6 Protesters

Despite the mounting evidence continuously exposed by The Epoch Times that some law enforcement officers engaged in brutal, unprovoked attacks against essentially peaceful Jan. 6 protesters, every one of them has been cleared of wrongdoing. However, several documents obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times show other officers were investigated for being friendly with protesters, six of…


Capitol Police Tells Protestors Not to Disrupt Congressional Baseball Game

The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on July 28 urged climate activists planning to demonstrate at the annual congressional baseball game to stay home. In a statement relayed through Twitter, USCP Chief Tom Manger said: “We are aware that demonstrators are planning to protest political issues at the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Our mission is to…


Democrat Staffer Called Police on Colbert Crew After Hearing Loud Noises, Chief Says

A staffer working for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on June 16 called the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on the nine Stephen Colbert staffers who were subsequently arrested, according to USCP Chief Thomas Manger. The staffer, whose name was redacted, heard a man shouting outside his office, according to a letter from Manger to Reps. Rodney…


Democratic Staffer Called Police on Colbert Crew After Hearing Loud Noises, Chief Says

A staffer working for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on June 16 called the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on the nine production crew members for “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” who were subsequently arrested in a House office building, according to USCP Chief Thomas Manger. The staffer, whose name was redacted, heard a man shouting outside his office, according…


US Capitol Police Urge Judge to Block Jan. 6 Defendant’s Request to Measure Parts of Capitol

Letting a Jan. 6, 2021, defendant photograph and measure parts of the U.S. Capitol not normally open to the public would endanger the security of the building, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) told a judge this week. “Allowing a defendant to take the requested measurements would compromise the security of the U.S. Capitol by exposing…


Capitol Police Officer Exercised ‘Questionable Judgment’ After Entering Congressman’s Office: Watchdog

The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer who entered a congressman’s office and took a picture of a whiteboard “exercised questionable judgment” and didn’t follow the agency’s policies in his handling of the incident, a watchdog has found. The USCP’s inspector general reviewed the actions of officer Kevin Dias, who claims he saw the door to the…


NYPD Sends 100 Officers to Washington to Help With State of the Union Security

WASHINGTON—Some 100 police officers from New York have arrived in Washington to help the U.S. Capitol Police with security for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union. At least five buses transported the officers to the nation’s capital, where they were sworn in at the Capitol Police headquarters, an officer who declined to be named…


House Panel Warned Congressional Visitor Tracking Would Be ‘Logistical Nightmare’

A Sergeant-at-Arms “visitor tracking” program to control access to the Capitol Complex by requiring all visitors to provide official photo IDs and submit to digital background checks will produce a “logistical nightmare” that “fundamentally alters our federal legislature,” a House committee was told Feb. 17. “I note with great alarm the suggestion by the House…


GOPers Urge Capitol Police Watchdog to Address Pelosi’s ‘Politicized’ Hill Security

United States Capitol Police (USCP) Inspector General (IG) Michael Bolton is being challenged to address publicly in today’s hearing of the House Committee on Administration what three GOP members of the panel describe as the “politicized campus security” of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “Since January 6th, the Majority has politicized campus security,…