Although the Ohio State Highway Patrol detailed the police pursuit and standoff on Thursday, in which Shiffer and agents exchanged gunfire, authorities provided limited details about the attack on the FBI building that triggered these events, and the possible motives behind it. .
None other than mr. Shiffer was injured or killed on Thursday.
Officials from the Highway Patrol and the FBI’s Cincinnati office said they had no plans to release additional information Friday. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the use of force by state poachers, but she did not answer other questions about the case and did not specify when more information would be released.
A spokeswoman for Republican Governor Mike DeWine declined to comment.
There was a similar silence from many in the Biden administration. When Attorney General Merrick B. Garland spoke on Thursday about the search of Mr. Trump’s home, he made no mention of the Ohio attack.
A handful of officials directly condemned the attack, including Representative Brad Wenstrup, a Republican whose district includes the FBI’s Cincinnati office, who called it “despicable and wrong,” and Representative Mike Carey, a Republican whose district includes the site of the standoff. . “In America,” Mr Carey said Friday, “we do not threaten or take violent action against law enforcement.”
earlier in the week, Mr Carey had called the search of Mr Trump’s home “a danger to the Republic” which he said had eroded confidence in the Justice Department.
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Democrat, called what happened in Cincinnati “a horrendous attack on law enforcement.”
“We live in a land of laws,” Mr Brown said in a statement, “and it is the duty of all leaders to calm – not incite – political violence and extremism.”
Alan Feuer, John Ismay and Kevin Williams reporting contributed. Kitty Bennett and Kirsten Noyes research contributed.