New Body Worn Camera Footage from J6 Supports Calls for Release of All Video

This is why they don’t want the surveillance tapes released.

As one commenter opined, “If the footage supported the leftist narrative it would have been released almost immediately. Instead the left wants to hide the footage because it wants to hide what really happened that day.”

Jan 6 Political Persecution….. more here……

New Body Worn Camera Footage from J6 Supports Calls for Release of All Video

The American people deserve the unvarnished truth, not the Capitol police version of events.

By Julie Kelly, AM Greatness, January 16, 2023

Body-worn camera footage obtained by American Greatness of a D.C. Metropolitan police officer on duty on January 6, 2021, shows the chaos unfolding in real-time that day and how law enforcement’s response to the protest led to rising tension and deadly violence.

Officer Terrence Craig, an 11-year veteran of the force, testified last week in the criminal trial of Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man notoriously photographed with his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office on January 6, 2021. Nearly two-and-a-half hours of video was captured by Craig’s body-worn camera, providing an uninterrupted and shocking view of what happened inside and outside the building.

Never-before-seen interactions with police and protesters bolster demands by House Republicans to release all surveillance video recorded by Capitol security cameras on January 6.

Craig’s video starts with a group of D.C. Metro and Capitol Police advancing toward the west side of the building at 2:30 p.m. The first physical breach occurred about 15 minutes beforehand; Capitol police had used “nonlethal” munitions such as flashbangs, pepper balls, and tear gas on the crowd assembled outside on Capitol grounds for roughly an hour—the first time in department history that officers were ordered to use such dangerous crowd control devices on political protesters.

D.C. police were ordered to dress in full riot gear, including gas masks, face shields, gloves, and ballistic vests. Under cross-examination by Joseph McBride, one of Barnett’s defense attorneys, Craig admitted the officers were “fully geared up” before taking their positions.

McBride: So you’re fully geared up. You’re strapped up from head to toe?
Craig: Yes.
McBride: Ready to rock and roll?
Craig: Yes.

And “rock and roll” they did. The footage showed a dramatic shift in tone from the massive crowd assembled on the Capitol lawn as jack-booted cops arrived on the scene. Craig admitted as much. “[It] was peaceful heading up to the Capitol,” he told McBride. “You can hear the noise and the sounds, and you see the officers on the side.”

But chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A!” quickly dissipated as the crowd grew agitated at the sight of police officers, faces obscured while dressed in military-type gear, forming groups on the upper terrace. (At least a few SWAT officers can be seen mingling with local police at around 2:45 p.m.)

Police continued to douse the crowd with chemical spray even though protesters were not attempting to breach a line of officers down below.

Craig entered the Rotunda around 2:50 p.m., about five minutes after the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The area at first appears sparsely populated with protesters and police; in one scene, officers appear to be tending to the injuries of an elderly man lying on the floor.

Physical and verbal confrontations started inside the Rotunda around 3:10 p.m. as police forcibly tried to move the increasingly packed crowd out of the area. “Do you feel big and strong now?” one woman asked the officers. “Does that get you off pushing around a bunch of women? A bunch of fucking unarmed women?” A female voice is then heard screaming, claiming she’s “trying to” get out of the building.

Craig walks throughout the building, at parts chaotic and other parts relatively calm. One man approached Craig to explain that police took his cell phone and asked how he could get it back. Craig’s answers are unintelligible, impaired by the gas mask and face shield. “Sir, I can’t understand you,” the man said as he followed Craig down a set of stairs.

“Wait, is this the Capitol?” the man asked Craig. “Are you serious?” he replied. “I’ve never seen it,” the man said, underscoring the fact many individuals had never before been in the Capitol and did not know where to go or how to exit.

Craig then takes a position outside the building around 3:50 p.m. amid a heavy police presence. The situation is relatively calm. Chants of “We the People” can be heard.

Some police are again confronted by protesters. “Are y’all gonna tear gas us?” one unidentified man said to a line of officers. One D.C. Metro police officer nodded his head. “It’s we the people, not we the cops,” another man shouted. By that point, three Trump supporters were dead, either wholly or partially due to excessive force.

At 4:20, Craig and several other officers suddenly rush back into the building and march toward the lower west terrace tunnel, the scene of the most violent clashes between police and protesters. (This is the same location where police are caught on camera beating women, including Victoria White.)

As Craig approached the mouth of the tunnel, angry shouts can be heard. “You need to stop! Stop!” one individual yelled at police. Several other men can be heard screaming for help while police spray more chemical gas into the crowd.

At least three men and a few officers are seen dragging the lifeless body of Rosanne Boyland to the mouth of the tunnel. Her shirt is pulled up near her head; one man is attempting to administer CPR. Previously-released footage and eyewitness accounts indicate that Boyland, 34, likely died after succumbing to the effects of toxic gas sprayed by police in the enclosed space and what appears to be a beating by another D.C. Metro officer.

“She’s fucking dead! This is on you, motherfuckers!” one man screamed at the officers, who continued to spray the men tending to Boyland. “This is the woman you killed, you fuckers!”

Some throw items at the front line of police as Boyland’s body is dragged face-up through the tunnel and into the building. Physical confrontations with officers continued for another 20 minutes.

Craig relayed his version of events to McBride. “I saw the dead young lady, and they dropped her right in front of me,” Craig calmly explained. “They just brought her and said, ‘Hey, do your job and take care of her.’”

(After prosecutors objected to the line of questions, Judge Christopher Cooper instructed McBride to avoid “[talking] about the circumstances of people dying.”)

Several men involved in the confrontations related to Boyland’s death were arrested, detained, and charged with assaulting police officers. The Department of Justice and news media have carefully controlled the narrative, portraying protesters as the perpetrators of violence rather than the victims, while justifying the fatalities of four Trump supporters on January 6. (Boyland was officially pronounced dead at 6:09 p.m. The D.C. coroner later claimed she died of a drug overdose, a dubious conclusion given public evidence to the contrary.)

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VMS

1 year ago

They have to disclose all the footage to the defense counsel of those charged.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

All of the innocent protesters who were arrested need to be released. Thye should have never have been arrested in the first place..

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VTS

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

All have to be released and compensated by gov.

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John

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

Write your representative and senators and demand it.
If enough of us do they will have to move… even those on the dark side.

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Cowgirl Diva

1 year ago

RELEASE the political prisoners….AKA…..HEROES…..NOW…!!!

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edward kennedy

1 year ago

Capital police? More like gestapo, or KGB, or Stasi.

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andrew

1 year ago

The powers that be will have all info sealed for 50 years.

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Roger Grant

1 year ago

McCarthy et al are releasing all the 14,000 hours.
J6 CMTE wanted some of it held as state secret for 60 years.

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The VIKING

1 year ago

The left hates America and White people. If we dont get rid of them we will fall like Rom. Can you hear Nero in the back round. By the way tell bumbling biden that those F-15 piolets may turn their backs on him and fire on DC

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John

1 year ago

There have been zero consequences for the Russian collusion hoax, Biden’s selling state secrets or the lap top, so why should we expect any here?

This is not a republic it is an oligarchy.

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

The ancient Greek Philosopher Plato wrote that “The measure of a man is which he does with power. Therefore the Joe Biden’s “measure’ is terribly lacking. In fact his “measure is horrendous evil. For that despicable fiendish villain who is posing as a real US President ,Joe Biden ,who is so extremely evil that he takes a large part in a heinous cover-up in the blatant murder of Ashli Babbitt, a non-violent ,unarmed peaceful patriot protestor who shot and murdered , though a closed door by a US Capital “police officer..” The words “police officer” referring to murderous character, who viciously killed Ashil in cold blood. After she and other American patriots had actually been waved in that Federal government building by some “Capital police officers” . That was a real, actual “set up” in the most horrendous, wicked insidious kind there could possibly be.

Then Biden after he officially entered the Office of the US Presidency abused that power as a Chief Executive to hide that grisly murder of this young patriot from the public, the ,law courts , and helped get that murderous off with total impunity.

This among other hideous unconscionable affront by Joe Biden reveals now more than ever before that Biden is not a genuine US President but an actual criminal.

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

What about the human rights of the person murdered in cold blood by the name of Ashli Babbitt ?

On January 6th 2021 at Washington DC the patriots were waved in that government building by the Capital police. What a setup. That was totally unconscionable of those politically correct fiendish villains.

It’s been discovered and proven that the Capital police officer had viciously shot dead Ashli Babbitt thorough a closed then she was not engaging in any type of violence and the Capital officer who shot her was a Black man which is part of the cover up. Later that murderous Capital officer was “cleared” as in he escaped punishment because of the heinous influence and power in those politically correct leftist in the US government. So that awful man literally got away with murder.

That murderous escaped justice. This country is no longer a nation of “Justice for all”

The point in mentioning that is to think of a the national politically correct outrage and even riots that would occur if a White Capital police officer had shot dead a BLM rioter , for any reason ,no matter how
valid that reason was.

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Michael McCallion Sr

1 year ago

When will the legacy – media recognize the Democrat – click heel – indifferent to the United States Constitution and certainly to the S.O.A.P. [Sovereign Ordinary Average Persons] using Their role as the “Final Magistrate” within an Honest, Moral -Election Process have determined the actions of the many, many suspect Democrat Elected Representatives and some R.I.N.O.s _ [ Imagine Republican Presidential Candidate Maclean has been revealed as such a R.I.N.O. ] the failure C.Y.A. Clutch is now Up-To-The-Plate for dismissal. _There will not be the Democrat misuse of power by the limited intellect Speaker Pelosi succumbing to the C.C.P. biding or the Bidden – Biden Family to ignore the Truth and continue to feed U.$. Tax-Dollars to the misbegotten ‘ Oath Breakers ‘ . [ Imagine the Democrats actually followed the C.C.P. bidding to imprison the S.O.A.P. – Oath-Makers ]. _ Certainly a significant indicator of the depth of the Infiltration; Bribery; Domination stated in 1974 with Mao Zedong congratulating the 1st Trudeau Prime Minister for opening the ‘Back-Door’ of North America into the U.S.A. _ Such an infiltration facilitated then Senator “Joe Biden” to spend an inordinate period of time being -dined and wined – by the Communist China Party future Leader who murdered Thousands of Tienman Square Students and then violently purged the Millions of China’s Citizens followers of Falun Gong/Dafa. _ Using the bodies of those not murdered to be a ‘Living Warehouse’ for harvested Human Organs. _ Such a practice of forced harvesting possibly one reason why Zhang lived to the age of “96”. _ How could the cadre of corrupted Bureaucrat Management and Democrats abandon all sense of Morality?_MikeSr.

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Andre

1 year ago

The January 6 witch hunt is not over. The murderer of Ashli must be brought to justice and those responsible for holding political prisoners for two years charged and put on trial.

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