A U.S. police officer in the Capitol was suspended Monday after an anti-Semitic document was found near his work area, the department said.
A congressional assistant noticed a printed copy of “The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion” Sunday at a checkpoint in an entrance to the Longworth House office building.
“When I left my office in Longworth yesterday, I discovered something that terrified me as a Jew. At the security point of the Capitol police in the United States, someone was spreading bad anti-Semitic propaganda,” he said. Zach Fisch, Staff for New York Representative Mondaire Jones tweeted on Monday.
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The Washington Post, which reported the story for the first time, said on Monday it provided Capitol police with photos of the tract sitting at the table in Longworth.
Acting Chief Yogananda D. Pittman said she suspended the officer pending an investigation “after anti-Semitic reading material was discovered near his work area on Sunday.”
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“We take all allegations of misconduct seriously,” Pittman said in a statement. “I immediately ordered that the officer be suspended until the Office of Professional Responsibility can thoroughly investigate.”
The common channel, originally published in the 20th century, has become an important text of white groups of rulers. It is described as ‘a classic in paranoid, racist literature’, by the Anti-Defamation League.
The Foreign Ministry said in a 2004 report that ‘the clear purpose of the [document is] to incite hatred against Jews and Israel. ‘
Fish said on Twitter that the specimen found in the congressional building was torn to pieces and more than two years old.
He asked him if the document had been passed on, why the policeman felt comfortable keeping it in mind and how many other members of the group shared the beliefs.
The department has been under scrutiny since the deadly riot on January 6 when hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an effort to block the certification of President Biden’s election victory.
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“This is both a national safety issue and a workplace safety issue,” Fisch wrote. “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? “
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This report originally appeared in the New York Post.