Numerous Capitol Police officers who responded to riot test positive for coronavirus

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post

By
Tom Jackman
Jan. 23, 2021 at 6:24 p.m. CST

Since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, 38 U.S. Capitol Police employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the head of the officers’ union said Saturday. Cases are also climbing among members of the D.C. National Guard stationed around the Capitol.

Meantime, the Justice Department said five more people have been arrested in the Capitol riot, including a county jail guard from New Jersey who took an “emergency holiday” from work to travel to Washington and a Federal Aviation Administration employee from California who is a QAnon follower, court records stated.

In another development, two police officers from rural Virginia who had admitted their participation in the Capitol siege were suspended without pay by their department after a search warrant affidavit disclosed that one told a friend on Jan. 10: “I’m going to war . . . DC on the 20th for sure.”

The head of the labor committee for the Capitol Police officers’ Fraternal Order of Police chapter, Gus Papathanasiou, said he had been told by the police chief’s office that 38 employees tested positive for the virus. He said there was no breakdown on how many were officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but he noted that most civilian employees in the department telework and would not have been there during the riot.

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[Mawspam2]

1. If any single one of them dies of Covid...

...you can add a manslaughter charge to every one of those maskless goons that got caught.

[AZ8theist]

2. Facing down a horde of Doturd maskholes.....

They contracted Covid?

What are the odds??

[MichMan]

3. Heard on the radio yesterday that there were a couple hundred cases among the National Guard

Including some of the 5000 remaining on duty there. If I understood correctly, they are deployed in DC until March

[llashram]

4. thousands of trump supporters

maskless at the 1/6 Capitol coup attempt superspreader. Is it any wonder with all those ignorant ****heads in Washington D.C. 1/6 trying to overthrow our government system? And this insurrection violence in favour of the matrix of fascism. Who to lead in this matrix of racist fascism? A cabal of treasonous RW leaders all the way into the Oval Office in which sat a diaper filled madman

[Cozmo]

5. Well maybe Capitol Police should have avoided posing for insurrectionist's selfies, just saying

[Rhiannon12866]

6. One more Trump D.C. superspreader event...

[mahina]

7. Oh my God those poor men and women and their families

I hope we have several go fund me s set up. Do you know if any real ones?

Thank you.