Children’s Choir Singing National Anthem Silenced by Capitol Police

Rabach said the officer told him that the demonstration was not allowed and that people complained about its offensiveness. 

In an email to the Daily Signal, the Capitol Police denied the claim that it was shut down because people were offended.

Capitol Police said, “Recently somebody posted a video of a children’s choir singing the Star-Spangled Banner in the U.S. Capitol Building and wrongfully claimed we stopped the performance because it ‘might offend someone’”:

Of course, because the singers in this situation were children, our officers were reasonable and allowed the children to finish their beautiful rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner. … The Congressional staff member who was accompanying the group knew the rules, yet lied to the officers multiple times about having permission from various offices. The staffer put both the choir and our officers, who were simply doing their jobs, in an awkward and embarrassing position.

Rea and Rabach both called this an outright lie. 

“That’s a bald-faced lie,” Rea, told the Daily Signal. “You can see clearly in the video, they literally stopped him before they finished singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’”