A year after Capitol Police's darkest day, its chief says the force is making gains
It was shortly before 8 a.m. on a busy December day.
The Capitol was gearing up for President Biden, Vice President Harris and lawmakers to take part in the Dec. 9 lying-in-state ceremony for the late Republican Kansas senator and presidential nominee Bob Dole. Both chambers of Congress would also meet in session that day.
And someone got past security with a gun.
A line of about five deep went through the magnetometer screening at the Longworth House Office Building. A first officer missed an image on the X-ray machine: a firearm in a bag.
"It was human error," U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger told NPR.
When the line finished, Manger said a second officer at the checkpoint asked to review the film: "Can we go back? I thought I saw something."
They caught an image of a gun.
That spurred a frantic hunt: a lockdown, a video review of
