Saturday, 30 January 2021 _US Capitol Police have beefed up security amid concerns of home-grown terrorism and threats against the nation’s lawmakers.
Capitol Police forces will be stationed at airports around the Washington, DC, and at the railroad terminal at Union Station to provide security for members of Congress traveling to and from the capital.
"They will be in place to monitor as members move throughout the airport," Acting House Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett said.
The measure was made amid rising threats against lawmakers in the wake of the deadly breach of the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
A woman, arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday in connection with the protest on Jan. 6, provided one example for how Trump supporters have targeted lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, who is basically responsible for making Trump the only president in US history to have been impeached twice.
“We broke into the Capitol. ... We got inside. We did our part.” Dawn Bancroft shouted in a video of the attack to the Capitol. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her.”
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