Capital Police protecting the Capital. Or not. U.S. Capitol Police suspend officer who let visitor in with a gun
"After the magnetometers sounded, an officer performed a secondary hand search, and the man was let into the building. The officer is suspended while the USCP’s Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting an administrative investigation into the officer’s performance of that search," [the U.S. Capitol Police] statement said.
So the metal detector's alarm went off. They did a secondary search. And let him in the building with a loaded 9mm firearm. Buy hey, it was small, and concealed in his waistband. You know, where most people carry firearms.
He entered the Capital Visitor Center and the Library of Congress.
I've read some stories of cops doing stupid things: Cops executing search warrants on the wrong house, because they can't read a map, or an address sign. Cops threatening to break the law on camera. Cops caught breaking the law on camera. This may not be the most stupid thing I've read, a cop did shoot a man with his own gun the other day, but this has to come close.
The cop in question has been suspended. I assume that is with pay, and I really don't think that they will fire him. He will be suspended until this falls out of the news, then he will be reprimanded and reinstated.
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