Capitol officer who suffered ‘traumatic brain injury’ sues Trump for inciting riot

A US Capitol Police officer filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump exactly one year after a mob of his supporters breached the halls of Congress and injured dozens of law enforcement officers

In a filing in US District Court in Washington DC on 6 January, an attorney for Briana Kirkland claims that she “endured an odyssey” of violence that began among 20 officers on the Senate side of the Capitol building and ended “covered in chemical spray” and blood, “with a traumatic brain injury that would cost her a year of her personal and professional life, and physical and personal injuries that will be with her indefinitely.”

The filing follows two similar lawsuits from three DC-area police officers this week, alleging that the former president waged a months-long campaign to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with a baseless “stolen election” narrative that “inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aided and abetted” a crowd of his supporters to the Capitol.