U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has filed a lawsuit seeking $2.5 million in damages after an unannounced Capitol Police officer entered his office to conduct a search related to the January 6 Capitol protests.
The lawsuit stems from a November, 2021 incident in which an officer entered Nehls’ over the Thanksgiving break, leaving the congressman to find the door to his office wide open upon return.
The officer claimed he saw a white board with “suspicious writings mentioning body armor with an outline of the Rayburn Building next to the Longworth building with an ‘x’ marked” on the map, at which point he forwarded the information to his supervisors. Three officers with the USCP’s Intelligence Operations Section later visited Nehls’ office and asked about the white board.
“Congressman Nehls was later informed by his staff of the unauthorized entry of his office, the photographing of his whiteboard, and the questioning of his staff about the contents of his writings on the whiteboard. He was appalled and outraged by the invasion of his privacy, and he regarded the actions of the Capitol Police to be a threat to the liberties of the people of his…
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