The United States Capitol Police (USCP) find themselves in the very awkward position of having to explain how an armed man made it through their security screening process, leaving him free to wander the Capitol with a 9mm handgun tucked into his waistband. Worse yet, this happened a mere 24 hours after Donald Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda.
The security breach happened Tuesday afternoon, when a 27-year-old man from Massachusetts was able the clear the security screening area at the south checkpoint of the Capitol Visitors Center despite the magnetometers going off and a pat down being conducted by an officer.
After making it through the screening area, the man, identified by USCP as James Faber, then went on a tour of the Capitol and was later apprehended outside the nearby Library of Congress.
