House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) on Friday called for an investigation into how rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this week knew where to find his office.

In an interview with SiriusXM Radioโ€™s Joe Madison, Clyburn said that he had never before seen such a failure of law-enforcement leadership and claimed โ€œsomething else is going on.โ€

โ€œMy office, if you donโ€™t know where it is, you arenโ€™t going to find it by accident,โ€ he said. โ€œThe one place where my name is on the door, that office is right on Statuary Hall. They didnโ€™t touch that door. But they went into that other place where I do most of my work. They showed up there, harassing my staff.โ€

โ€œHow did they know to go there? Why didnโ€™t they go where my name was?โ€ he added.

โ€œSomething else is going on untoward here,โ€ he said. โ€œWe need to have an extensive investigation to find out.โ€

He said that while he supports the Capitol Police, the agencyโ€™s leaders failed to do their jobs.

He questioned why videos circulating on social media seemed to show officers opening barriers and taking selfies with rioters who broke into the building.

โ€œWhy were they out there waving people on to the grounds? Why were they allowing people through those doors?โ€ he asked.

The rioting, which took place Wednesday as Congress met to count the Electoral College votes and affirm President-elect Joe Bidenโ€™s victory, left five people dead, including Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick.

Clyburn said those involved need to be held accountable.

โ€œWeโ€™ve got to indict. Weโ€™ve got to convict these people because one of those Capitol Police [officers] died and somebody should be tried for their death,โ€ he said. โ€œAll those people who were on those grounds the other day were complicit in that.โ€