“Many officers that are retirement eligible are seriously looking at turning in their retirement papers. Since January 6th, several Officers have retired as a result,” Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the United States Capitol Police Labor Committee, said in a statement last week.
“I cannot tell you the number of younger officers who have confided in me” since the breach at the Capitol.
Papathanasiou said the negative thought was urged by “a lack of trust in our leadership who clearly failed us on January 6th” and said other police agencies elsewhere “offer better working conditions and better retirement benefits.”
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“If Congress wants to recruit and retain officers to meet the heightened security threat, they are going to have to address both the leadership and quality of life issues driving officers to leave this department,” he stated.
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Following the breach on Jan. 6, which happened during the Joint Session of Congress to certify the election, more than 300 people have been indicted concerning it.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resigned following the occurrence and six Capitol Police officers have been suspended.
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Another 35 officers are currently under probe, officials said on Feb. 19.
“Our Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the actions of 35 police officers from that day. We currently have suspended six of those officers with pay. Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman has directed that any member of her department whose behavior is not in keeping with the Department’s Rules of Conduct will face appropriate discipline,” the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement to local news outlets, without elaborating.
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One officer, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, died following the breach, according to his family members. A week ago, his mother, Gladys Sicknick, told the Daily Mail she doesn’t believe he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the fracas, as some media reports originally had suggested.
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“He wasn’t hit on the head, no. We think he had a stroke, but we don’t know anything for sure,” she said on Feb. 22. “We’d love to know what happened.”
After the breach, The New York Times, CNN, and other mainstream outlets announced that Sicknick was killed as a consequence, but in recent days, they updated reports saying that his cause of death hasn’t been resolved. The NY Times was the first to detail—mentioning anonymous sources—that he was killed by a fire extinguisher.
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The Associated Press, which cited “two people familiar with the matter,” reported on Feb. 27 that federal investigators determining Sicknick’s death have “zeroed in on a suspect” who appeared to spray a chemical substance on the officer before his death.
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