The spokeswoman said in a statement that Yogananda Pittman, acting chief of the Capitol police, on Monday ordered that the officer be suspended and that the officer be suspended pending the outcome of an investigation by the Department of Professional Responsibility.
“We take all allegations of misconduct seriously,” Pittman said. “After bringing this matter to my attention, I immediately ordered that the officer be suspended until the Office of Professional Responsibility can thoroughly investigate.”
The Washington Post first reported that the officer was suspended after a congressional assistant allegedly saw the document at a checkpoint.
A printed copy of the minutes of the meetings of the learned elders of Zion was left on a table inside an entrance to a house building, according to photos received by the Post Office. The text is a work of fiction published in a Russian newspaper in 1903, pretending to be documents showing a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. According to the American Holocaust Memorial Museum, the forged papers were used as propaganda and influenced Adolf Hitler.
Flags, signs and symbols of racist, White supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and US flags during the January 6 riots at the US capital. Explicitly, anti-Semitic images were seen among rioters at the mob, and it appears that several police officers tolerated the behavior of the rioters.
A riot that stormed the American Capitol wore a sweater with the phrase ‘Camp Auschwitz’, the name of the Nazi concentration camp where about 1.1 million people died during World War II. At the bottom of his shirt is ‘Work brings freedom’, which is the rough translation of the phrase ‘Arbeit macht frei’ which was at the gates of the concentration camp.
One Capitol police officer took a selfie with someone who was part of the mob that passed the building, and another wore a “Make America Great Again” hat and started leading people around the building, according to Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat in Ohio. Both were suspended in January.
Zach Fisch, chief of staff of New York Democratic Representative Mondaire Jones, took a photo of the document on Sunday night as he left the Capitol via one of the 24-hour entrances on the side of the building before handing it over to the Post Office, the paper reported.
When he saw the document there, it ‘scared’ me, Fisch
said in a series of tweets Monday night.
“This is a national safety issue and a safety issue in the workplace,” he said.
prosecute. “Our office is full of people – black, brown, Jewish, foreign – who have good reason to fear white supremacists. If the USCP is everything that stands between us and the mob we saw on January 6, how can we then feel? safe? “
CNN’s Madison Park, Curt Devine, Scott Bronstein, Peter Nickeas, Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner contributed to this report.
