also kept a lid on that videoooe footage. and in in some cases, dojts did not share it with criminal defendants who d beeged onn chan on january six in violation of . their constitutional rights. so we felt it wa so we felt it c anrvice to bring what we could to you. there was no justificationd for keeping the secret any longer. a poand a powerful argument to e made that sunlight is always and everywhere. the best disinfectant. it and in fact, because it waso soe video evidence, it is to some extent self-explanatory. anyone could look at the tapapee and decide what he or she thinks of it.very c so the tape we showed lastlearla night indicated very clearlys et that capitol hill police in pro some cases escorted protestersha through the capitol as if they were giving a tour. they did that with jacob.sley translate the so-called q and uncommon ad qanot one poit they even tried to open locked doors on channelize behalf. beha he was sentenced to four years in prison for his cr
We had no idea that we were te peopg to be facing what we faced on that actual day. so things starg.t to fall apart. people stream in the building. you call upwards in the command chain. u so around two o clock, it may- have been a little bit after a capio clock, i hear a officer say that the capital was breached. so i ran inside of the building around two to to assist. i knew that that location of where the first breach occurred was near where the members ofat congress would be locked in. we initiated a lockdown. . so that means the chamber doors on the senate side in a house.cs i would lock would be sa. so that means the members of congress would be safe inside those locked rooms. thso i ran over to the house sin over to the senate sid first to make sure that thosesoa doors were locked. then i ran over to thesk senatra side to make sure those doors were okay. so i aske thd overat, um the radio, w and i say something to the! effect tha t we need direction.in wsie havede o hu
So he reached over. and i didn t know what he was doing. i didn t know if he was going to hit me. and he putga h a megata hat on s head. tryin so sg o as i was still tryingd to walk down the steps, then he acts with the hat back and i said, well, i would like to keep it because i , you know, the hats want to help me.o yes. your passport through the crowd. yeah, exactly. so the capitol police is by serves bot definition, non partisan. it serves both parties ipanrtie the congress, protects members of both parties. 100%. 1 and it00%. has to be that way in the wake of january six . yo u saw what looked like partisanship at the capitol police. did you perceive that? i m still shocked because as a capitol police officer, we even had a we had our chief ofe wa police at the time, his name cad was, well, stephenson. and he he called for a all the officers who was at work that day. he called fo y to comed . all and we all went to we all went to emancipation hall in the the cbc. bla
Day since it happened foro twenty six months. and so at some point, the publicthe evidence should do presented to the public in free countries. governments do about p not lie t protests as a pretext to gain more power for themselves.. they don t collectively edit videos for they don t selectively edit videos for propaganda services and then liee abou about them ip hearings and show trials. but that s exactly whaenand evet happened. and every member of congress. should ask why that happened. enatbut democrats in the senate, instdemocratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer,senate is not asking why. instead, chuck schumer t wentt to the senate floor today to explode and to say thatgovere showing that video evidence of wrongdoing by the federal government, including security forces, the police department, the nancy pelosi personally controlled , letting the public see any of that is a threat to democracy. last nigh watch. last night, millions ofwe har americans tuned in to one of the
Is the capitol police were notcl think ab prepared for what happened.use r and that s fascinating when you think about it, because e there was ample warning the federal intel and law enforcement agencies knew perfectly welle there could be a massive but disturbance at the capitol. y but the frontline officers y on duty that day didn t know. and yet the people who kept that information from the frontline officers were overwhelmed by thousands of people milling aroun d the cad t the capitol building. the people who fell down on the job, their jwho didn t t their job, they were not punished.they they were wrded and rewardedo and you have to ask yourself, why is that? here we go .. many in federal la many in federal law enforcement ofew perfectly well there was going to be a huge demonstration in washington on the afternoon ofly january six . 2020 one , and that it viol couldent. debat become potentially violent. there is no debate about thatt s fact.lso the fb cli knew . but it s also