In the U.S. Capitol, tensions are rising between Capitol Police and members of the minority party.
Some Capitol Police changes were implemented in response to security failures that allowed a mob to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. But a number of incidents, from the installation of metal detectors outside the House floor to alleged questioning of a staff member about legislative notes written on a whiteboard, have some Republicans feeling as if they are under surveillance or being treated as perpetrators of violence.
The idea behind the field offices was to take a “regional approach” to assess threats to lawmakers. There were 9,600 threats to lawmakers in 2021, up from 8,000 in 2020 and 4,000 to 5,000 in the years before that, according to the department.Republicans also recoiled at stated orders from Capitol Police to arrest staff members or visitors who refused to comply with the Capitol complex mask mandate.
But Nehls, who was the sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas, for eight years before winning his suburban Houston House seat in 2020, maintains that the incident was “very strange” and that the officer"put on his own investigator hat." Asked about Nehls’s allegations in a press conference, Pelosi said, “Don't waste your time. I have no power over the Capitol Police.”
Daniel Schuman, policy director at the Demand Progress Education Fund, noted in a House Administration Committee hearing last week that there have been “a number of other circumstances of unusual behavior” by Capitol Police, including reports of officers shoving reporters in the Capitol basement in 2017 and an officer who left his gun unattended in 2019.
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