Gunmen appear in the US Congress? A false alarm at the police station | gunman | US Congress
About 200 police officers and dozens of police cars were dispatched to search the three Senate office buildings layer by layer... After a busy hour and a half on the 2nd, the US Congressional Police Department discovered that the so-called "gunman presence" was likely a false alarm.
At around 2:30 pm Eastern Time on the 2nd, police in the capital Washington received a call to the police, stating that there may be a gunman inside the Senate Hart office building, who is a "burly, bulletproof Latino man". The Congressional Police Department immediately called out.
At present, the House of Representatives and Senate are in summer recess, and the overall number of personnel in the office building is lower than usual, but there are also many restaurant and coffee shop employees, property personnel, and tourists.
In the Russell office building of the Senate, police officers evacuated people from the hallway and loudly reminded them to run outside and stay away from the building. The staff and media reporters inside the building received an email instructing them to take shelter in a safe haven, stay quiet, and turn off all electronic devices. Outside the building, tourists saw dozens of police cars.
About 90 minutes later, all three office buildings were searched and confirmed to be safe.
"No one really heard gunshots, and definitely no one was victimized," Congressional Police Chief Thomas Manger told media reporters, confirming that there were no gunmen present, which could be a fake police call.
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On January 6, 2021, supporters of then US President Trump held a demonstration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie
The day before, former Republican President Donald Trump was once again criminally charged with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He will appear in a federal court a few blocks away from the Capitol on the 3rd. To this end, security measures have been strengthened in the government office buildings of the court and surrounding areas.
On January 6, 2021, a large number of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, disrupting the joint meeting of the House and Senate to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, and clashed with the police. One congressional police officer and four protesters died, and hundreds were injured.
Mange said that multiple law enforcement agencies in Washington have been preparing for possible prosecutions for weeks and developing security plans to deal with Trump supporters attempting to disrupt legal proceedings.