The sister of Mariam Carey took to Twitter to slam the actions of Capitol Police yesterday, reminding the public of the overwhelming violence used against the Black woman who simply drove near the Capitol Building in 2013, according to local news outlet WUSA9. 

Capitol Police allowed hundreds of Trump-backed domestic terrorists to overtake the Capitol Building yesterday. A number of the rioters were heavily armed with long guns and pipe bombs, as Blavity previously reported. 

Multiple videos showed Capitol Police either doing little to stop the violent rioters or what appeared to be them outright helping the insurgents get into the building before they destroyed it and desecrated the offices of the country's Congressional leaders. Four people died in the riots, and video shows Capitol Police allowed many of the domestic terrorists to walk out of the Capitol Building with few problems. 

The situation was a stark contrast to what happened on Oct. 3, 2013, when Carey was shot to death while driving her two-door black Infiniti. Carey's young daughter was in the backseat as she struck a White House barrier and drove into a restricted area while police demanded she stop, The Washington Post wrote in a lengthy story about Carey's case.

After a short chase, Capitol Police and Secret Service fired 26 shots into her car, hitting her five times. She was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.  

Capitol Police and Secret Service faced a significant backlash at the time for their heavy-handed response, with many pointing to the dozens of instances where people breached White House or Capitol Building gates without being executed for it. 

To this day, Capitol Police and Secret Service officials defend their actions, saying Carey was driving recklessly and that officers had a duty to kill Carey. CNN later reported that Carey was shot five times in the back. 

“There is more than sufficient evidence to show that under all of the prevailing circumstances at the time, the officers were acting in defense of themselves and others at the time they fired their weapons,” the office of U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. told The Washington Post.  

But yesterday, many online referenced Carey's case as an example of Capitol Police using violence to stop someone breaching Capitol Hill defenses, something officers repeatedly declined to do even as pipe bomb-wielding domestic terrorists shattered windows and outright attacked them on the floors of Congress.

Many have criticized Capitol Police for allowing the domestic terrorists to do something they would never allow Black or brown protesters to do, pointing to the Carey killing and the forceful response to peaceful protests in the summer of 2020. 

Family members of the beloved dental hygienist still do not understand why she was even in Washington D.C., but her mother told The Washington Post that she spoke about struggling with post-partum depression with psychosis. 

Still, they question why the Capitol Police felt the need to end her life for what amounted to misdemeanor driving violations. 

One of her co-workers, Barbara Nicholson, told The Washington Post that the situation was confounding considering how wonderful Carey was at her job and the fact that her child was in the car with her when Capitol Police opened fire. 

“We’re left with a void and no answers. It’s like she was wiped off the face of the earth. There was no indication she ever had issues. You couldn’t ask for a more professional person than her. No one ever complained about her, and that’s highly unusual. She was the sweetest person you ever want to know,” Nicholson said. 

“You could see the [child’s] car seat in the back of that car. She was absolutely normal. I still remember her standing there, saying, ‘Bye, have a nice weekend. See you on Monday.’ As if nothing. You could see both sides of the story. But I’m sorry. That child does not have a mother because they wanted to handle it their way.”

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