FBI Appears to Acknowledge Mass Congressional Shooting Was Classified as Suicide by Cop

The Epoch Times

An FBI official on Thursday appeared to acknowledge that the bureau classified the mass shooting that left a U.S. representative in perilous condition and wounded several U.S. Capitol Police officers as a “suicide by cop.”

Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, said in his opening statement during a congressional hearing in Washington that James Hodgkinson was a domestic terrorist.

Hodgkinson, a liberal activist who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), opened fire at an Alexandria, Virginia field as the Republican congressional baseball team practiced in 2017. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) barely survived, and several others present, including law enforcement officers, were struck by bullets.

Republican lawmakers revealed earlier this month that FBI agents informed them that the bureau classified the incident as “suicide by cop,” even though evidence pointed to it being a domestic terror attack.

Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) in the House Appropriations subcommittee hearing referenced Weigmann’s statement, telling FBI official Jill Sanborn that the shooter “was a deranged supporter of Bernie Sanders who had a list of Republican members of Congress in his pocket when he actually ambushed the group.”

He wondered if the FBI had reclassified the incident in light of the backlash it has faced.

“It is fair to say that the shooter was motivated by a desire to commit an attack on members of Congress and then knowing by doing so that he would likely be killed in a process. Cases like this are challenging because there were a couple of clues left behind, but he died in the process, never allowing us to fully examine through say an interview his motivations,” Sanborn, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, told the hearing.

“This is a good example of what I will talk about as we go on today with a trend that we started to see 2016ish, which is that the motivation and what drove somebody to mobilize is a very personalized grievance that they hold, which is something different from the domestic terrorism threat in years past. There’s also indicators that the shooter intended for the shooting to be his final act on Earth, but those things are not inconsistent with someone who is motivated by a variety of factors to commit violent acts based on a blend of personal motivations and this conduct is something that today we would characterize as a domestic terrorism event.”

BY ZACHARY STIEBER

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