{"id":66459,"date":"2021-04-02T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66459"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:37:33","slug":"66459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66459","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2021\/04\/02\/capitol-police-give-briefing-on-attack-at-capitol-one-officer-killed-in-incident-n354655\">Capitol Police Give Briefing on Attack at Capitol: One Officer, Suspect Killed in Incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2021\/04\/02\/capitol-on-lockdown-car-tried-to-breach-barricade-police-reportedly-shot-n354549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As we reported earlier,<\/a> a suspect rammed a car into a barrier in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. just after 1:00 p.m. and hit two Capitol Police officers and hit the north barricade along Constitution Avenue on the Senate side of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then allegedly got out of the car wielding something between a knife and a machete, after which the suspect lunged at the police officers, and was shot and killed by the Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two officers was injured and the other has unfortunately died at the hospital, according to Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Capitol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Capitol<\/a> Police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect also dead.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tJQ6x5RNmT\">pic.twitter.com\/tJQ6x5RNmT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsrailton\/status\/1378057095606640641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Police Give Briefing on Attack at Capitol: One Officer, Suspect Killed in Incident As we reported earlier, a suspect rammed a car into a barrier in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. just after 1:00 p.m. and hit two Capitol Police officers and hit the north barricade along Constitution Avenue on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66460,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459\/revisions\/66460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}