In the United States, the fourth Washington police officer, who participated in the January riots in the Capitol, committed suicide. About it informs CNN citing the Washington City Police Department.
The deceased officer’s name was Gunter Hashida, he was found dead on July 29 at his home.
Not long before that, another Washington police officer, Kyle Defreytag, had died, and he also committed suicide. Two other police officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood, who were also involved in the suppression of the riots in the Capitol, committed suicide in January.
We will remind, on January 6 in Washington, Trump’s supporters demanding a revision of the election results, broke in to the building of the United States Congress on Capitol Hill. During the riots perished five people, including one policeman.
After the riots was excited in at least 25 domestic terrorism cases, more than 500 Americans have been charged. At the end of July, the first verdict with a real term of imprisonment was issued in this case – 38-year-old Paul Hodgkins received eight months in prison.
At least 850 members of the Capitol Police Force and the Washington DC Police Department were involved in suppressing the riots in the Capitol. About 140 of them were injured.