WASHINGTON – The U. S. Capitol has been the scene of horrific attacks, the fire of 1814 through British soldiers, the 1954 attack through Puerto Rican nationalists who shot and wounded five lawmakers in the House Chamber, and the assault of construction through a pro-Trump mob. January.
Friday’s attack, in which a driving force rammed his car against two officials and a barricade near the Capitol, the most recent tragic episode. Capitol police officer William “Billy” Evans died as a result of his injuries. The suspect, Noah Green, 25, was killed after being shot dead by police.
Here’s a look at the attacks on the Capitol for over 50 years:
March 1, 1971 – A bomb planted in a bathroom in the Senate of the Capitol exploded, causing damage, but without death or injury. The device exploded through the left-wing group, Weather Underground, to protest the U. S. -backed invasion of Laos.
November 7, 1983: A bomb under an open-air Senate house bench, placed through a left-wing group, exploded at maturity at night, blowing up the workplace door of then-Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The room was abandoned and no one was injured. The members of the group, known as the Resistance Conspiracy, were not satisfied with the U. S. military’s involvement in Lebanon and Grenada. They were eventually arrested, but the bombing marked the start of further security measures at the Capitol.
July 24, 1998: A gunman, Russell Weston, ran to a security checkpoint, killing U. S. Capitol officer Jacob J. Chestnut, Jr. , a tourist wounded in the initial crossfire between the gunman and the Capitol Police. killed a momently officer, Detective John M. Gibson, after the assailant ran to a door leading to the aftermath of Tom DeLay, then the Texas House Majority Whip.
October 3, 2013: Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old Connecticut dental hygienist with intellectual illness, was killed by police after crashing into a White House security fence with her car and key government in a 16-block chase to the Capitol with her -One-Year-old daughter in the vehicle. The woman survived.
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January 6: Supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the construction of the Capitol as lawmakers in either chamber performed a ceremonial account of Joe Biden’s victory at the Electoral College. The attack left five other people dead, adding the US Capitol official to the U. S. But it’s not the first time Brian Sicknick, and wounded officials and assailants. The attack forced lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to flee in search of protection and temporarily suspended counting, but they returned that night to assert Biden’s victory.
April 2– Evans dies and another officer remains hospitalized after one guy crashed into a car in a security fence near the U. S. Capitol building. Police said the guy, later known as Green, hit two USCP officers near the fence with his vehicle. on Constitution Avenue, after Green got out of the car, he wicketed a knife and ran to the officers before he was shot.