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The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt was later identified as Lieutenant Michael Byrd of the U.S. Capitol Police, and subsequent official probes concluded his use of force was lawful and within departmen...
The reporting on how many law enforcement officers were injured on January 6, 2021, converges on a range rather than a single, undisputed figure: contemporaneous and later accounts commonly cite injur...
The publicly documented counts do not produce a single definitive total for Available official and reporting records establish that hundreds of local D.C. officers were engaged at the Capitol, the FBI...
Three days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howie (Howard) Liebengood died by suicide, and subsequent reporting and official rulings have linked additi...
The primary on-the-ground responsibility for security at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, rested with the United States Capitol Police (USCP), led at the time by Chief Steven Sund; oversight and p...
The Speaker of the House exercises influence over some aspects of Capitol security primarily through , but does not possess unilateral operational command over the Capitol Police or local D.C. law enf...
Two authoritative but differing tallies describe the nonfatal toll on officers from the January 6, 2021, attack: union and contemporaneous reporting put the figure at about , while a Government Accoun...
Comet Ping Pong was falsely identified by online users as the center of the “Pizzagate” child‑sex trafficking conspiracy after hacked John Podesta emails and forum sleuthing tied vague phrases and soc...
The , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol resulted in multiple immediate deaths, scores of injuries to law enforcement and others that day, and additional fatalities among officers in the weeks and month...
The officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021 is Michael Byrd, a lieutenant in the United States Capitol Police who later went public and defended his actions; internal and DOJ investigat...
A handful of law‑enforcement officers who were on duty around the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack died in the days, weeks and months that followed; medical examiners and official reports have mostly r...
Two responding officers have been formally ruled to have died “in the ” by federal or District authorities: Metropolitan Police Officer , whose death was first ruled a line‑of‑duty death by the and la...
Medical examiners did not rule any U.S. Capitol Police officers’ deaths from January 6, 2021, as homicides; the high-profile Capitol Police death referenced in official statements, Officer Brian Sickn...
The short, evidence-grounded answer is: the FBI had a presence related to January 6 — it collected intelligence, maintained confidential human sources (CHSs) in Washington, and worked closely with oth...
For official, up‑to‑date monthly crime reports and homicide data for Washington, D.C., start with the Metropolitan Police Department’s public portals: the MPD / District Crime Data at a Glance and the...
The deployment of National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol is a mix of federal statute, executive action, and ad hoc operational decisions: the District’s Guard has been under orders in Washington si...
Metropolitan Police Department and multiple reporting outlets show Washington, D.C.’s homicides declined in 2025 compared with 2024: national and local reporting cite about 99 homicides year‑to‑date a...
Washington, D.C.'s homicide totals fell sharply in 2025 — the Metropolitan Police Department reports 127–128 homicides for the year versus 187 in 2024 and 274 in 2023 — a decline that implies most mon...
Available reporting documents extensive and recurring , but it does not provide clear, sourced examples of U.S. federal, state, or local police departments that have formally hosted foreign military o...
The current to is characterized as a persistent, diffuse risk from lone offenders and small cells—both domestic violent extremists and individuals inspired by foreign terrorist messaging—rather than a...