Now We Know Why Prosecutors Wanted to Keep Jan. 6 Videos Away from the Public
By: Kyle Becker
Just what we all thought. Prosecutors were repressing and hiding these thousands of hours of collective video because they fly in the face of the deep state democrat narrative of insurrection. There never was one. Nancy Pelosi and her committee on 1-6 can go do unnatural acts with themselves.
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Now We Know Why Prosecutors Wanted to Keep Jan. 6 Videos Away from the Public
by Kyle Becker about 7 hours ago
Prosecutors lost a battle to keep some of the 14,000 hours of January 6 surveillance video that was accumulated by the FBI out of the public view. And much to anti-Trump Democrats’ chagrin, social media is already having a field day with it. Buzzfeed’s Zoe Tillman who broke the tough news:
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released a new collection of Capitol surveillance videos from Jan. 6 after a judge ordered them to do so, rejecting the government’s argument that making the clips public could threaten the security of the complex.
The disclosure marks a setback for the US Capitol Police and the US attorney’s office in their efforts to control how much footage from the Capitol’s closed-circuit video (CCV) system gets out. In the latest case, prosecutors argued that revealing the location and vantage points of more cameras could help “bad actors” trying to plan some future assault on the building. A judge concluded that argument was too speculative, however, and that the public had a strong interest in seeing videos that formed the basis for a recent plea deal.
US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered the videos released in response to a request from a media coalition (including BuzzFeed News) that is petitioning judges on a rolling basis for videos that prosecutors have relied on in Jan. 6 cases. Howell’s decision isn’t binding on other judges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia presiding over Capitol riot prosecutions, but it gives the media coalition a favorable ruling to point to in future fights.
When some of this video made its way into the hands of the public, everyone could see exactly why the prosecution didn’t want it to get out: It doesn’t fit the narrative of the ‘deadly insurrection’ that the fake news media has been propagating. Watch for yourself:
Of course, this is just one example clip from the footage released. Zoe Tillman describes the gist of the newest footage release:
The clips cover a period of about 15 minutes on Jan. 6 — between 2:25 p.m. and 2:40 p.m. — in different locations inside the Capitol. They show rioters streaming through open doors and broken windows at an entrance on the Senate side; crowds of people walking into the Crypt, standing in a large crowd, and eventually dispersing; and, finally, rioters exiting as US Capitol Police officers in riot gear gather at the Senate entrance point to stand guard as a mob that’s outside looks in through the broken windows. There is no audio. The cameras are stationed up high and at a distance, providing a wide, stable perspective on the scene.
Tillman is far from a faithful narrator of the footage. She describes the event as an “insurrection,” instead of a riot, although no one has been charged for the “insurrection” and the FBI has not been able to determine that there was any centralized plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
There was, indeed, violence in some areas of the Capitol grounds on January 6. But it is not entirely clear that the worst offenders were Trump supporters, rather than anomalous extremists; it appears that the groups are all conflated into a misleading picture of what happened. There were Trump supporters who were merely let into the Capitol building by the Capitol police officers who were supposed to be protecting the building. Many of them merely walked around, took pictures, and protested in a reasonably orderly fashion. This is why many defendants are charged with crimes such as “trespassing” and “parading without a permit.”
It also appears from a time-stamped series of videos based on a restored Parler video archive that the Capitol protests escalated into riots in conjunction with indiscriminate police discharge of pepper spray and stun grenades into the crowd.
The new video release nonetheless provides more evidence that the picture portrayed by the media, that the January 6 riot was an existential threat to the republic, is quite demonstrably a false one. A number of commentators drove this point home:
This isn’t even all of the videos. Who knows what other embarrassments for the media lie in the rest of the 14,000 hours of January 6 footage?
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check out the magatard climbing thru the window with an open door 8 feet away...
Maybe some got impatient with the "mad rush" of people walking in and decided to use the window.
Looks like a bunch of peaceful tourists....
Well of course in some shots such as the one you post there isn't any violence occurring because they had already pushed back the capital police and broken into the capital, the only ones in the shot are Trumpites, why would they be attacking each other? This is just showing the quiet after the storm, their friends and allies had already charged the police to get this far.
I wonder if that would be an excuse conservatives would accept when there are scenes of looters in a store with the window smashed.
"But a large number of the looters entered the electronics store peacefully, they weren't involved in the breaking of the windows and doors at all, some are seen just milling around the store so they shouldn't be arrested and prosecuted, right?"...
That’s already happened repeatedly where all the violent looters, arsonists, and rioters were let off with no charges and let go matter dropped. The double standard between the leniency they got and the harsh treatment and torture the 1-6 group still locked up nine months later for misdemeanors is shocking and a reason why we no longer care what liberals think about 1-6 anymore.
Really? There’s dozens of people being held as political prisoners and tortured 9 months after they rioted or looted in a city near you? I don’t think so.
So 15 minutes out of a three hour event mean something to you?
My bet is that it is indicative of the majority of the time by the majority of the people there. We now know why the prosecution is trying to keep this kind of footage away from the public. It blows giant holes in the insurrection narrative.
No, I am exactly right. As usual.
I am completely and totally correct as per usual. You are mistaken.
And 90% of them will be charged with a misdemeanor for which time served will greatly exceed the normal consequences for such trespassing.
And apparently that 15 minutes is stronger testimony than all the other videos showing forcible entry and assaulting police officers.
Nobody can find irrelevant information as well as he can.
There’s lots of camera footage alternative media and defense lawyers are trying to get access to for exculpatory evidence that prosecutors want suppressed. Much of it almost certainly more like the one here.
What videos? Put them up..
No one is defending the individuals who committed those acts. Unlike liberals from our coastal cities we don’t defend rioting, looting, vandalism, or violence in pursuit of some message. Unlike in those cities, those doing the bad things on 1-6 were a tiny minority of those protesters.
I have to ask...
I know, well, I think we all know, about the constant thinking that certain people are about to destroy your way of life.
Anyway, is there anything that brings you joy? Is there any interest other than extreme politics? Or is that about it.
You are not stupid, you have seen the videos. Your request is disingenuous at best.
My politics are not even remotely extreme. Certainly no more to the right than you are to the left. In addition to being a political animal, I have my religion, my family, my work if I can get back to it working with kids, my hobbies including investing, and sports interests.
Trump bashing seeds are the ultimate in irrelevant information.
Is looting a privilege or a right?
The double standard as to how liberal trespassing is treated to what happens to conservatives who do so is clear for all to see.