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The congressman has since deleted the gutless Islamophobic social media post
By Sipa USA via AP
Murphy responded to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s post about the death of Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who was fatally injured in a car-ramming attack near the Capitol building. “Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force,” Omar tweeted on the day of the incident, adding, “The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife.”
A police officer was killed when a suspect rammed him and another officer with his car outside the Capitol on Friday. The suspect wielded a knife and was shot dead. The other officer hit by the car survived.
The attack came not quite three months after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the Capitol on 6 January, seeking to overturn the election. A police officer was one of five people who died as a direct result.
Omar was at the Capitol that day. In January, she told the Guardian she “didn’t know if I would make it out” and had called her ex-husband “to make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn’t make it out”.
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