Heavy police presence outnumber highly-anticipated, sparse US Capitol rally

Police and media outnumbered protesters around the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, Sept. 18, at a rally by supporters of the people who breached the building on Jan. 6, trying to overturn former President Donald Trump's election defeat.

About 100 to 200 protesters showed up, some carrying the flags of the right-wing group the Three Percenters over their shoulders. It was far fewer than the 700 people organizers had expected and the thousands who brought mayhem to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Hundreds of officers patrolled the Capitol grounds and a black eight-foot-high (2.44 m) fence, which surrounded the white-domed building for about six months after the attack, was reinstalled in anticipation of the event. One hundred National Guard troops were on standby.

Organizers of the "Justice for J6" rally called for a peaceful event. They support Trump's false claims that his defeat was the result of widespread fraud and, as part of an effort to rewrite the history of the deadly mob assault on the Capitol, speakers insisted that hundreds of rioters arrested that day were "political prisoners."

Four people died on Jan. 6; one was fatally shot by police and three were from medical emergencies. A Capitol Police officer who had been attacked by protesters died the day after and four police officers who took part in the defence of the Capitol later committed suicide.

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