A “heartbroken” Joe Biden is among those to have offered his condolences after US Capitol police officer William “Billy” Evans was killed in a car attack at a security checkpoint.
As tributes poured in for the officer of 18 years, described by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “martyr for our democracy”, the US president said he was ordering an investigation into the ramming attack, which left another officer injured. The suspect was shot dead.
Coming less than three months after Donald Trump’s supporters violently stormed the complex, the suspect, named as Noah R Green of Indiana, was said by police to have “exited the vehicle with a knife in hand” on Friday and started “lunging” at the officers” in an attack not initially believed by investigators to be “terrorism-related”, according to the acting chief of Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.
Meanwhile, the former president has raged at “woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections” and is among Republicans to call for a boycott of Major League Baseball over its decision to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest against a new state elections bill that restricts access to the ballot – labelled by its critics as a sweeping voter suppression measure that disproportionately targets Black voters.
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