NEW: Two Capitol Police officers have been suspended and another individual has been arrested for their alleged role in last week's riot, said Rep. Tim Ryan, chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Capitol police’s response to the insurrection last week. 1/
Of the two people suspended, Ryan said one seen taking a selfie with rioters & another "was an officer that put a MAGA hat on that started directing some people around."
He had less clarity about the person arrested.
CORRECTION: A spokesperson for Congressman Ryan later said he was wrong and no members of law enforcement have been arrested.
NEW: A House aide tells @CNN there are as many as 17 officers under investigation as part of 8 investigations into the insurrection at the Capitol. cnn.com/2021/01/11/pol…
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BREAKING: The man photographed sitting at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested & charged with three federal crimes. Richard Barnett, of Arkansas, was taken into custody Friday morning in Little Rock, federal authorities in Washington DC announced. Per @KaraScannell
Barnett is charged with knowingly entering and remaining in restricted building ground without authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and the theft of public property, officials said.
Also, a resident of Alabama was also charged in connection with the pipe bomb found on the south side of the Capitol building, 11 Molotov cocktails and military-style weapon found in his pickup truck. cnn.com/2021/01/08/pol…
NEW: The LA County EMS has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals, and to conserve the use of oxygen. Per @alexandrameeks
If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the memo said. If the patient is stabilized after the period of resuscitation, the patient would be transported to a hospital. cnn.com/world/live-new…
If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital. cnn.com/world/live-new…
NEW: In upcoming book, Michael Cohen writes Donald Trump's disdain for Obama was so extreme he hired a "Faux-Bama" to participate in a video in which he "ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him." He includes this photo: cnn.com/2020/09/05/pol…
In 2015, after Trump called Mexicans criminals & rapists, he dismissed concerns he’d alienated Latinos. "Plus, I will never get the Hispanic vote," Trump allegedly told Cohen. "Like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump. They're not my people." cnn.com/2020/09/05/pol…
According to Cohen after Obama won office in 2008, Trump said, "Tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a sh*thole...They are all complete f*cking toilets.” cnn.com/2020/09/05/pol…