Washington (AP) – Four people died and 52 others were arrested as alleged supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the US Capitol.
Washington, DC, Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the US Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.”
Police said both law enforcement and alleged Trump supporters deployed chemical irritants during the hours-long occupation of the Capitol building before it was cleared Wednesday evening by law enforcement.
The woman was shot earlier Wednesday as the mob tried to break through a barricaded door in the Capitol where police were armed on the other side. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and later died.
DC police officials also say two pipe bombs were recovered, one outside the Democratic National Committee and one outside the Republican National Committee. Police found a cooler from a vehicle that had a long gun and Molotov cocktail on Capitol grounds.
I'm home, and will post my footage of the #CapitolHill riot chronologically as I go through it.
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) January 6, 2021
These are some of the scenes I first saw arriving at the Capitol, just as they breached the perimeter.
Fighting largely focused on the first set of steps. pic.twitter.com/nAs9n5Juwv
