More than 70 police officers Capitol dismissed after the buildings of the building by supporters of the former US President Donald Trump in January of the current year. It is reported by POLITICO Edition.
Head of the Police Trade Union Capitol Gus Papataanasiu said that people leave the Department due to the prospects for longer working days and traumatic consequences of the January and April events. “At night, it does not give me to sleep not the problem of hiring and learning new policemen, but the hold of those police that we have now,” he said.
So, in early April, the American Green rammed two police cars. After that, a man came out of a car with a knife, but the law enforcement officers opened the shooting on it and neutralized the attacker. Later it became known that the attacker died, one wounded policeman died.
The assault capitol occurred on January 6th. Trump supporters broke into the building and surrounded the Hall of the Senate. Senators and Congressmen had to interrupt the meeting, which was planned to approve the results of the voting of the electoral collegium, according to which Democrat Joe Biden was elected president. As a result, five people died as a result of protest, dozens were arrested.