The United States Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a person from the visitor center of the Capitol Building (House of the Parliament of America) amid the ongoing voting for the presidential elections in the United States. The main race in the United States presidential election is between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Police said the smell of fuel (gasoline) came from the man’s body and they also recovered a torch and a flare gun from him. US Capitol Police said the Capitol Visitor Center was closed during the investigation. Meanwhile, the FBI said false bomb threats were received at polling places in many US states.
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According to the FBI, the threatening messages were sent from a Russian email domain. Bomb threat messages were received at polling places in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. The investigation found that these were false threats. The FBI said a safe and fair presidential election is the agency’s top priority.
In view of the elections, there were fears in many American states that public order would be disturbed. Given this, strict security measures were taken. Officials said forces were on standby in several other states, including Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. . were maintained.
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Because of the potential for protests and violence, many schools and churches in Arizona that served as voting centers in the past did not set up voting centers there this year. Regarding the possibility of violence after the election, Republican candidate Donald Trump said that his followers are not violent and there will be no violence. We told you that Donald Trump had lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 elections, after which supporters of the Republican Party sowed anarchy in the country. The US Capitol was also attacked.
