Three law enforcement officers have accused Donald Trump of fuelling an attack on the US Capitol that left them with broken limbs, a concussion, ringing ears, night terrors and depression, after a mob of the former president’s supporters sprayed them with chemicals, hit them with flagpoles and yelled racial slurs as they forced their way into the halls of Congress on 6 January.A lawsuit from US Capitol Police Officer Marcus Moore and a separate suit from Washington DC Metropolitan Police Departm

The two complaints--one filed by a US Capitol Police officer and another by two members of the DC Metropolitan Police--join six other civil suits that have been filed against Trump, the rioters or others for their alleged role in encouraging the Capitol attack.... In the year since the US Capitol attack, judges remind us what it means to be American They also bring claims under the Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era law that has been cited in other January 6 lawsuits against Trump and his a

A U.S. Capitol Police officer filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the Jan.... 6 insurrection, ” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington.... At one point, she was outnumbered 450 to 1 at one of the Capitol doors and armed with only a baton, the lawsuit alleges. She argues that Trump did little to end the insurrection and that his “ provocative words and actions leading up to and on Jan....