Marjorie Taylor Greene wants this week’s Capitol riot footage kept, ‘insurrectionists’ to be charged

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has requested the preservation of the video footage, photos, police reports and arrest records from all House office buildings after pro-Palestinian protesters jammed Capitol Hill Wednesday.

The riot was organized by two pro-Palestinian Jewish groups — Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. They gathered inside and outside the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday holding signs and yelling chants calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza-Israel war.

Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, posted a copy of her letter Wednesday to Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger on X requesting that all of the records be kept.

“By launching an insurrection in the Capitol complex, these actors caused elevators to be shut down, staircases and hallways to be blocked, exits to be made inaccessible, and official legislative business to be obstructed, putting members of Congress, their staffs and Capitol visitors at risk,” the letter said.

She called on the Committee on House Administration to investigate the incident, along with the footage and evidence from Capitol Police, and said the “insurrectionists involved must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Reports said roughly 300 people were arrested during the protest. Three were charged with assault on a police officer during processing, according to the Capitol Police’s X page.

Ms. Greene condemned the riot in several posts on X and posted photos and videos of those on the Hill.

In one post, she called Rep. Rashida Tlaib a “Hamas Caucus Leader” and said she was leading the riot. The Michigan Democrat, who is of Palestinian descent, was seen talking to some of the protesters.

Ms. Tlaib is one of a group of House Democrats who have been urging the Biden administration to call for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. On Monday, the group introduced the “Ceasefire Now Resolution.”

Jewish Voice for Peace claimed that 10,000 people gathered on Capitol Hill, with 500 inside the office building, to “demand an end to the Israeli and U.S. government’s genocide in Gaza.”