US Capitol Police officer attacked by woman carrying baseball bat

A US Capitol Police serviceman was attacked connected Friday greeting by a pistillate carrying a shot bat on First Street SW successful Washington, Capitol Police said successful a statement.

The incidental happened astir 9:30 a.m. ET. When constabulary approached the woman, she became agitated and raised her bat. Officers tried to instrumentality the bat from her, and during the scuffle she spot 1 of the officers, according to Capitol Police.

Police identified the pistillate arsenic 25-year-old Olivia Romero. Charges are pending.

The incidental is the latest onslaught successful what has been a unsafe twelvemonth for Capitol Police officers. The January 6 riot injured much than a 100 instrumentality enforcement officers, and successful April, a Capitol Police serviceman was killed aft a fishy rammed a conveyance into a constabulary barricade extracurricular the Capitol building.

In August, a antheral with a past of supporting erstwhile President Donald Trump and who has said “all Democrats request to measurement down” was arrested aft an hours-long standoff adjacent the US Capitol during which helium claimed to person an explosive device. Weeks aft that, Capitol Police arrested a California antheral who had aggregate knives successful his truck, which had a swastika and different White supremacist symbols painted connected it, adjacent the Democratic National Committee headquarters.