A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, U.S. Capitol Police officers are facing increasingly heated and baseless allegations from House Republicans that the department’s officers are operating as politically driven spies.
WASHINGTON — The rhetoric is complicating the force’s effort to win back public confidence.
“Frankly, I’ve been a police chief for over 21 years, and I have never allowed politics to influence my decisions,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I feel like the men and women of the U.S. Capitol Police are being dragged into partisan differences, and that’s unfair to them and it’s unfair to this department.”
The officer took a photo of the whiteboard and filed a report that notes “suspicious writings mentioning body armor.” Two days later, officers returned to Nehls’ office and spoke to his staff about the whiteboard. The case was then closed. But Nehls said the officer should not have looked at his whiteboard and challenged Manger to release the photo.
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