Officer injured in Capitol breach dies; D.C. mayor calls for terrorism probe

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(UPI) — A Capitol Police officer has died from injuries sustained during a siege by supporters of President Donald Trump on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday that Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser called “acts of domestic terrorism and sedition” and requested the Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate.

During a press conference Thursday, Bowser said the mob’s failure a day earlier to stop Congress from certifying the presidential election win by President-elect Joe Biden shows democracy prevailed.

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Lisa Graas is a blogger with social media expertise concentrating on religion and politics. She has a history of volunteer services in the pro-life movement and in writing for major conservative websites on both life issues and the agendas of the Left in America. She is very proud to have written for Live Action and the David Horowitz Freedom Center and of her record in the pro-life movement. Lisa is also, first and foremost, a Passionist Oblate Associate attached to the Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery in Whitesville, KY. She offers up all of her sufferings as cancer and mental health patient for the intentions of the Passionist Nuns. She works to spread the Word of Christ’s redemption through His suffering on the Cross.

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