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Capitol Police officers related to the pro-Trump mob insurrection that left five dead on Jan. 6, a House aide familiar with the investigations told CQ Roll Call.
But the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, egged on by Trump, has proved otherwise.
Last week, before the Jan. 6 riot, Roll Call asked what these accountability measures would look like in practice.
“Without a change at the top, we may see more events unfold like those we saw on Jan. 6,” he said.
But Jan. 6 was the day members of Congress had to vote.
Tim Ryan has vented frustration at the top brass of the Capitol Police but praised rank-and-file officers who were at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying they “did everything they could.
The Senate rejected the Arizona objection by a vote of 6-93, and the Pennsylvania objection, 7-92.
Security barricades the door of the House chamber as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
Shortly before 6 p.m., the House Sergeant-at-Arms informed a group of more than 100 people that had evacuated from the House side that the Capitol had been cleared.
Whoa: Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol as Congress counts the Electoral College ballots inside https://t.co/LiQhaa5KkQ— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6,
“Today, January 6 — the Feast of Epiphany — let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide an epiphany for our country to heal,” wrote Pelosi, a devout Catholic.