{"id":527391,"date":"2021-05-19T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=527391"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:20:56","slug":"u-s-capitol-police-deny-involvement-in-riot-commission-letter-that-mentioned-gop-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-capitol-police-deny-involvement-in-riot-commission-letter-that-mentioned-gop-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Capitol Police Deny Involvement In Riot Commission Letter That Mentioned GOP Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-capitol-police-deny-involvement-in-riot-commission-letter-that-mentioned-gop-leaders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=527391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capitol.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The U.S. Capitol Police Department has denied involvement in writing a letter that expressed \u201cdisappointment\u201d at recent comments from GOP leaders opposing the creation of a January 6 Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The letter, which circulated online Wednesday, shortly before the House of Representatives voted in favor of the commission, was allegedly written by a number of Capitol police officers and appeared to be on official stationery. But the department has denied involvement in the letter, noting that it doesn\u2019t take stances on proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA statement is circling on social media, which expresses an opinion about the proposal legislation to create a commission to investigate January 6. This is NOT an official USCP statement. The Department has no way of confirming it was even authored by USCP personnel. The U.S. Capitol Police does NOT take positions on legislation,\u201d said USCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.5483870967742\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USCP does NOT take positions on legislation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LSu38jbIqd\">pic.twitter.com\/LSu38jbIqd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitolPolice\/status\/1395127921300361230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear who authored the letter, reports suggest it was at least written by a Capitol police officer.<\/p>\n<p><span>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZcohenCNN\/status\/1395130505130135552\">reported<\/a> Wednesday that they have spoken to the author of the letter, but could not \u201cindependently verify other officers supported the letter.\u201d CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/capitol-police-letter-january-6-commission\/\">reports<\/a> that Rep. Jamie Raskin\u2019s (D-MD) office was circulating the letter to other congressional offices. A spokesperson for Raskin\u2019s office told CBS News that the officer who wrote the letter said it represented the views of between 40 and 50 officers of the department \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscp.gov\/media-center\/uscp-fast-facts#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20USCP%20is%20comprised,budget%20of%20approximately%20%24460%20million.\">employs<\/a> around 2,300 officers and civilian employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not accustomed to being political and they\u2019re not supposed to be political, but this is something that affects them directly, that they feel very strongly about, so they have to express themselves anonymously,\u201d Raskin told CBS News. \u201cI have no doubt that this is coming from real capitol officers and that they\u2019re speaking for huge numbers of officers who are very upset about the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>While the letter did not name any specific Republican leaders, the two most senior congressional Republicans \u2014 Minority Leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) \u2014 have both voiced opposition to the legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the political misdirections that have marred this process, given the now duplicative and potentially counterproductive nature of this effort, and given the Speaker\u2019s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation,\u201d said McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>But the anonymous letter\u2019s signatories \u2014 again, it remains unclear how many people actually supported it \u2014 took issue with GOP opposition to the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe members of the United States Capitol Police write this letter to express our profound disappointment with the recent comments from both chambers\u2019 minority leaders expressing no need for a January 6 commission,\u201d reads a copy of the letter circulating online. \u201cThe brave men and women of the USCP were subjected to hours and hours of physical trauma which has led to months of mental anguish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is inconceivable that some of the members we protect, would downplay the events of January 6,\u201d reads the letter. \u201cMember safety was dependent upon the heroic actions of USCP. It is a privileged assumption for members to have the point of view that \u2018It wasn\u2019t that bad.\u2019 That privilege exists because of the brave men and women of the USCP protect you, the members.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Capitol Police Department has denied involvement in writing a letter that expressed \u201cdisappointment\u201d at recent comments from GOP leaders opposing the creation of a January 6 Commission.The letter, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312433,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capitol.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"U.S. Capitol Police Deny Involvement In Riot Commission Letter That Mentioned GOP Leaders","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capitol.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"U.S. Capitol Police Deny Involvement In Riot Commission Letter That Mentioned GOP Leaders","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}