March 16, 2021 8:39 a.m.
U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer on Monday after anti-Semitic reading material was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, according to a department spokesman.
The Washington Post first reported that the document was seen in plain sight at a checkpoint by a congressional aide. It appeared from photos viewed by the Post that the text, Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, was sitting on a table inside an entrance to the Longworth House Office Building.
Capitol Police acting Chief Yogananda Pittman on Monday ordered the officer to be suspended and the officer is expected to remain suspended pending an outcome of an investigation by the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility.