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PUBLIC DEMAND FOR ALL JAN 6TH FOOTAGE INCREASES

Recently Released Jan. 6 Bodycam Video Increases Public Demand for All 41,000 Hours

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DC Metropolitan Police Department riot officers clash with protesters on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Steve Baker/Special to The Epoch Times)

By Joseph M. Hanneman
February 20, 2023Updated: February 20, 2023

The decision by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to hand 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 video exclusively to Fox News might satisfy demands for transparency in some quarters, but one experienced video investigator decried the arrangement.
“All of the American people need to be able to access the complete footage from January 6,” said William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, a Jan. 6 defendant who spent countless hours examining video evidence.

“For two years, the Department of Justice has selectively leaked footage to shape their preferred narratives. And for two years, Democrats in Congress worked to ‘establish’ their own narrative,” Pope told The Epoch Times. “Now, it is being reported that Republicans may only give access to select members of the media to control their own narrative.
“While Tucker Carlson does a great job of amplifying information and has been one of the few in media to support Jan. 6 defendants,” Pope said, “he shouldn’t be the lone gatekeeper of Jan. 6 video.
“Tucker also doesn’t have researchers on staff who have spent thousands of hours analyzing how the events of Jan. 6 unfolded. He could get much better content if the video were available to everyone and review was crowdsourced to the internet.”

Defense attorney Brad Geyer said the crowd-sourcing function has been stifled under court-imposed protective orders that kept the video hidden.
“Blanket court-imposed protective orders prevented upwards of 40,000 hours of CCTV footage and MPD body cam from being seen or reviewed by members of the public,” Geyer told The Epoch Times. “The crowd-sourcing function that the public would ordinarily provide the system was short circuited.
“Each J6 defense was responsible for its own video review, requiring each to reinvent the wheel each time,” Geyer said. “As a result, inflammatory clips played on an endless loop in the evening on Jan. 6 were burned into the national psyche, convincing everyone that these unrepresentative samples explained everything when they explained nothing.”
Video footage released by Pope in a recent court motion and several videos entered in evidence in the defense case of Richard “Bigo” Barnett have brought additional focus to the Jan. 6 picture.
Use of Chemicals

Canisters of CS gas, also known as tear gas, and high-velocity spray tanks filled with oleoresin capsicum were not only ineffective as crowd-control tools; they caused extensive casualties among police inside and outside the Capitol.
An errant shell fired by MPD Officer Rich Khoury at about 2:25 p.m. landed in a group of police supervisors on the west front of the Capitol. The resulting gas cloud caused police to scatter and allowed the densely packed crowd to advance toward the stairs that lead to the Lower West Terrace.
Officer Anthony Alioto’s bodycam showed him tossing a CS gas canister from the lower terrace into the crowd below. After the initial explosion, the smoking canister was thrown back at police, spreading gas across the terrace and driving officers inside the building.
After Metropolitan Police Department Officer Anthony Alioto tossed a CS gas canister into the crowd on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, a protester threw it back at police. (Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)“You got us. You don’t understand how bad you got me and Tara,” Sgt. Frank Edwards told Alioto, referring to himself and Officer Tara Tindall. “When that came downwind, you got the front of it. We got the whole plume.”
“You chased us upstairs,” Tindall said. Edwards added, “I couldn’t breathe.”
Another instance caught on bodycam showed Officer Daniel Thau rushing the police line on the west front and firing a stream of high-velocity pepper spray between two officers. The wind caught the stream and blew it back into their faces. After one officer muttered an expletive, Alioto shouted, “Hey Danny, watch the wind direction!”
Pepper spray was a danger inside the building as well. Alioto’s bodycam showed him getting hit in the face with pepper spray while police were trying to clear the Great Rotunda of protesters. Just as he drew his own can of pepper spray, Alioto said, “Oh, they got me. They got me.” As he walked into a side hallway, Alioto cried out in pain.
As a fellow officer poured water over Alioto’s face, the police radio crackled, “Everybody needs to mask up. We’re overwhelmed with pepper spray in the building.”
Capitol Police Staffing

As officers from MPD, the FBI, Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) streamed into the Capitol in the mid-afternoon, confusion among Capitol Police was evident.
Officer Luke Foskett from MPD approached U.S. Capitol Police officer Patrick Collier in the Capitol at about 2:50 p.m. and asked, “Where can we start?”
“I don’t [expletive] know,” Collier replied. “You want to talk about getting caught with your pants down.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer uses a steel baton to shove a protester in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. (Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)“We have no direction. Nobody can get on the [expletive] radio. I called the Command Center and let them know that you guys are here with us. At least you’re accounted for …”
Senate Evacuation

About 20 minutes earlier, Lt. Tarik Johnson was preparing to evacuate the Senate Chamber and radioed for command permission to begin the operation. Despite repeated requests, he never got a reply.
Eventually, Johnson started the evacuation anyway, saying the risk of harm to senators and staff outweighed any discipline he might face.
After hearing about the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the hallway outside the Speaker’s Lobby at approximately 2:45 p.m., MPD Emergency Response Team (ERT) officer Thomas Miller said: “We should have had people up here. I’m kind of pissed at that. I’m very pissed at that. Very pissed.”
Standing with other MPD ERT officers outside the Capitol at 3:40 p.m., Miller said he was told, “We’ve got other responsibilities. We can’t send our guys in there. There’s people all over this city with guns.”


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Journalist who captured shooting of Ashli Babbitt during January 6 “insurrection” sentenced to home detention

Thursday, April 13, 2023 by: Ethan Huff
Tags: arrest, Ashli Babbitt, capitol, election, InfoWars, insurrection, January 6, national security, prosecution, rigged, Samuel Montoya, shooting, Tyranny
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(Natural News) A 37-year-old man from Texas who used to work for Alex Jones has been sentenced to four months of home detention and 60 hours of community service for filming the breach of the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Samuel Montoya was documenting the event as a journalist when he reportedly found himself inside the Capitol where he witnessed the incident involving 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt, as the media reported, was “fatally shot outside the Speaker’s Lobby.” And Montoya was right there to film it, his family members told the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center in a tip, claiming that he showed them the footage firsthand.
At the time, Montoya was a video editor for Infowars who allegedly showed up on his own after being told by Jones to stay in Texas to work on the site’s broadcasts while Jones and others went to Washington, D.C., for the “Stop the Steal” rally.
“Jones said that Montoya went to D.C. on his own and that Jones had instructed his staff not to go inside the U.S. Capitol,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb in a court filing.
(Related: The supposedly “alt-right” Boogaloo Bois that participated in the “insurrection” were actually far-left extremists in right-wing disguise.)
Unless the White House sees you as a real journalist, you’re apparently not allowed to report

Montoya was hired by Infowars in 2018 but laid off back in November after the company filed for bankruptcy. As you may recall, Jones was slapped with a $1.5 billion fine for comments he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook incident, according to his attorney.
At the same time, Montoya is facing a much lesser but still onerous punishment for merely being present at the moment Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd reportedly shot Babbitt, killing her.
Prosecutors attempted to get Montoya thrown in the slammer for his presence at the event, but U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled against this. Instead, Montoya will have to endure three years of probation, including 120 days of home detention and 60 hours of community service.
Montoya was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine plus $500 in restitution for his “crime.”
Montoya was first arrested in April 2021. He initially faced charges that included one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building; one count of disorderly and disruptive conduct in a capitol building; one count of impeding passage through the Capitol grounds or buildings; and one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building.
Ultimately, Montoya pleaded guilty to just one of these counts, the latter one, which is just a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison.
At the very least, prosecutors wanted Montoya to rot in a cell for at least 45 days, but Judge Bates ruled against this. Despite claiming to be “a member of the media,” Montoya was not officially a journalist in the eyes of the White House.
Montoya apologized for his presence there, stating that “nothing like what happened at the Capitol that day should ever take place again.”
“I truly hope my apology offers a bit of closure to my fellow countrymen as we recover and heal together,” he added.
Judge Bates clarified that his ruling will not allow Montoya to “get a free pass … just because he considered himself a journalist.” The fact that Montoya only got the sentence he did was a “close call,” the judge added.
“He was more than just a reporter,” Bates stated. “He was not just an observer. He was a participant.”
The latest news about the state-sanctioned political persecution of independent journalists can be found at Tyranny.news.
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After shooting Ashli Babbitt, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd LIED on radio claiming he was fired at first

01/15/2024 // Ethan Huff // 3.1K Views

Tags: Ashli Babbitt, big government, Capitol Police, conspiracy, deception, false-flag, gun violence, insurrection, January 6, Judicial Watch, lies, Lt. Michael Byrd, OPS2, police state, Police Violence, real investigations, rioting, traitors, treason, Trump, truth, Twisted


Statements made by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd in a radio report after he shot Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 "insurrection" at a Trump rally in Washington, D.C., are said to be false in that Byrd was never fired at as he initially claimed.
A federal lawsuit alleges that Byrd lied in claiming that shots were being fired at him in the Speaker's Lobby just after his shooting of Babbitt. Byrd claimed, allegedly falsely, in a radio report that he was "prepared to fire back" after shooting Babbitt in the left shoulder with his Glock 22 .40-caliber pistol.
The previously undisclosed radio dispatch, which is the subject of the suit, also contained an audio recording exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times of the "OPS2" dispatch channel that Capitol Police were using on January 6. It contains other revelations previously unknown.
The federal lawsuit, filed on January 5, contains further information about the recordings. It was filed by Babbitt's widower, Aaron Babbitt of San Diego, who with the help of Judicial Watch is seeking $30 million from the U.S. government for his late wife's wrongful death.
The suit says Byrd fired his weapon wrongly because he was not being shot at as claimed.
"In fact, no shots were fired at Lt. Byrd or his fellow officers," the suit alleges. "The only shot fired was the single shot Lt. Byrd fired at Ashli. He heard the loud noise of the gunshot. He saw her fall backward from the window frame."
(Related: Did you catch our earlier coverage about how the journalist who captured Ashli Babbitt's shooting on tape was sentenced to home detention?)
Byrd recently promoted to captain with U.S. Capitol Police

Just prior to Byrd shooting Babbitt, another police dispatcher allegedly reported that "they're taking shots into the House floor."
"Lt. Byrd erroneously believed and acted on a false radio call and/or false report of shots fired on the House floor occurring before he left the House floor and moved across the Speaker's Lobby to the adjacent Retiring Room," the suit states.
"A reasonably prudent officer in Lt. Byrd's position would have been aware that, in fact, the report was false and the sound heard on the House floor was glass breaking, not shots fired."
Since the incident, Lt. Byrd has been promoted to Captain.
It remains unknown why Byrd falsely claimed that he was taking fire and was prepared to fire back at the time when he shot Babbitt. The radio dispatch in question occurred nearly a full minute after he shot her, it is important to note.
"The facts speak truth," the lawsuit adds. "Ashli was ambushed when she was shot by Lt. Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, 'You just murdered her.' Lt. Byrd was never charged or otherwise punished or disciplined for Ashli's homicide."
Video footage further supports the suit's claim that Byrd came out shooting and was not being shot at when he emerged into the Speaker's Lobby hallway in a shooting stance with both hands holding his Glock.
Byrd has only made a few public statements about the incident, and not to investigators but rather to an NBC television anchor. In these statements, Byrd never once mentioned his radio dispatch, nor did he claim that shots were being fired at him or other officers when he shot Babbitt.
Just before 2:43 pm when Byrd's shots fired announcement was made, another unknown U.S. Capitol Police officer reported that shots were fired. That announcement also turned out to be false.
The latest news about the January 6 "insurrection" can be found at FalseFlag.news.
Sources for this article include:
TheEpochTimes.com
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After shooting Ashli Babbitt, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd LIED on radio claiming he was fired at first – NaturalNews.com