DC Police Chief Robert Contee announced tonight that three people died of medical emergencies during today’s uprising on Capitol Hill, bringing the death toll in the incident to 4 after a female Trump supporter died. earlier that day. Contee did not specify if these people were involved in any way with the advancement of the Capitol building. “An adult female and two adult males appear to have suffered separate medical emergencies, resulting in their deaths. Any loss of life in the District is tragic and our thoughts are with anyone affected by their loss, “he said. DC fire and emergency medical services transported people to area hospitals with injuries ranging from cardiac arrest. to multiple fractures after falling from a scaffold on the West Front of the Capitol building, however, city officials did not say if any of these people are the ones who have now died.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she will extend the public emergency to 15 days, as a result of the rioters taking over the United States Capitol building today. This will carry the declaration of emergency until the day after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The mayor says the people who stormed the Capitol “sought to disrupt congressional proceedings related to the acceptance of electoral college votes.” “People are dissatisfied with the court rulings and the conclusions of the State Electoral Boards, and some people can be expected to continue their violent protests during the inauguration.”
A woman who was shot when Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday died, a Washington police spokeswoman said. Alaina Gertz did not offer details about who the woman was or the circumstances of the shooting, which is now being investigated by the metropolitan police. The unverified videos appear to show a woman who was part of the protests on the floor inside the Capitol and bleeding after the gunshots broke out momentarily. Police expelled the last of Trump’s supporters from the United States Capitol on Wednesday after they stormed the building and disrupted Congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
US media quoted House and Senate sergeants at arms as saying that the Capitol was now safe, about four hours after it was first attacked. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a sunset-to-sunrise curfew, calling on the help of the National Guard to help restore order in the nation’s capital. The curfew went into effect at 6:00 pm (0100 GMT), but thousands of Trump supporters could still be seen hanging around the streets. “We want everyone to move in and move in quickly,” Bowser told reporters. “The curfew will be enforced.”
Police in riot gear had set up a perimeter around the Capitol building, which came under attack by Trump supporters after the president addressed a nearby rally in which he repeated his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.
Twitter threatened on Wednesday to permanently ban Trump from the platform for disobeying its civic integrity rules, and ordered him to remove three tweets that broke the rules.
The messaging platform blocked Trump for 12 hours and said his account will remain locked if the offending messages are not removed, according to Twitter’s security team.
“As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, DC, we have required the removal of three tweets from @realDonaldTrump that were posted today for repeated and serious violations of our civic integrity policy,” Twitter said in a post. “If Tweets are not deleted, the account will remain locked.”
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