The U.S. Senate was in summer recess and the majority of lawmakers were not in, but most offices retain a skeleton staff on site.
There also are typically are dozens of workers staffing Senate cafeterias and coffee shops, security posts and working on building maintenance.
It should be noted that we do not have any confirmed reports of gunshots," the U.S. Capitol Police said in a post on social media.
An advisory from the Capitol Police urged people to move inside their offices and take emergency equipment.
There was a heavy police presence outside the buildings, with some staffers standing outside and tourists gathered around the perimeters of the Capitol complex.
0 days since we’ve actually made an example of those J6 traitors instead of giving them just a slap on the wrists, and somehow we are surprised they might try it again.
When they finally catch this latest lunatic, chances are he’ll get a months in prison. He’ll be out for the next election cycle!
Hell, other countries hand out much more severe (i.e. lethal) punishments for traitors. It is a shame the US doesn’t as well.
If you look at a lot of these cases, these people are more mentally ill than true traitors; the leniency vs harshness often takes that into account (dumb person following the crowd and doing something typically out of character vs someone with clear hostile intent). The true traitor is the orange man.
If somebody is actually dumb enough to do that then they’re probably dumb enough to do it from the personal phone. So this shouldn’t exactly require Sherlock Holmes to investigate.
FYI, article has been updated to indicate it might have been a false alarm. Article uses the term “bad call”…
Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible “bad call,” Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said.
This issue is fueled by insecurity and ego on the part of business management. They don’t get to grandstand in front of a room of people and it’s killing them. We’ll come to the office when it’s convenient for us or they can pick up the tools and have a go at this work. We’ll find some other place that values our work as specialists, not seat warmers in some dismal office block. The CEO-manager class of people can eat my refuse.
Also, a lot of them are paying for spaces that aren’t getting utilized to full capacity. I’ve noticed here in the states that many companies are clearing out whole floors and starting to rent them out to smaller companies to even out the cost a bit since they can’t seem to convince anyone that the office is better.
Please be mindful about spreading false information that may be potentially traumatic. This triggered my ptsd from the fatality from gun violence at the capital on January 6th.
I have to apologize, my initial read on that was that it was sarcastic. Like that whole right wing way of derailing a conversation by using the correct terminology of empathy in the wrong way at the wrong time on purpose because they think it's funny. And then the "whudabout teh tolerant left?!" cry.
Reading it again, I can see that it could be sincere. I think it's just an unexpected response to a news story on a public forum (as opposed to, say, a private conversation with friends), and that's why I read it wrong in this particular context. There's been a recent increase in conversation derailers that has me on the lookout for them
I am so relieved that the special prosecutor is defending the rule of law with these indictments. If the Republicans (and not just Trump) got away with trying to overturn the election we could lose our democracy. We still can, but at least they are going to trial against this would-be tyrant and some of the people who helped him.
You kinda already did when the founding fathers wrote checks and balances into the constitution conveniently forgot that political parties are a thing.
There are no checks and balances if the ones that are supposed to check and balance you are on your team.
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