Behold, some of the January 6th “insurrection” surveillance video
We’ve seen a few carefully selected amateur videos of the events of January 6th at the Capitol, most of them of the more violent aspects – including the moment in which Ashli Babbitt was killed. However, although we’ve known that tons of official surveillance video was taken, we’ve seen little of it till now because the government has fought its release.
There has been a wealth of video evidence in connection with the insurrection, including videos recorded by rioters that were posted online and footage recorded by police body cameras. According to the US Capitol Police, the CCV system captured more than 14,000 hours of footage between noon and 8 p.m. on Jan. 6, creating the most complete video archive of events inside the building that day. USCP has strictly controlled who can access the footage and how much of it can be released to the public; some of it was shared during former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in February…
The government opposed making the videos public. In response to a petition filed by the media coalition, prosecutors wrote that the videos featured nonpublic information about entrances and exits around the Capitol, and that releasing them would “compromise the security of the United States Capitol and those who work there.”…
Lawyers for the media coalition argued the government’s national security concerns were too speculative and undermined by the fact that prosecutors in a few other cases had voluntarily released some surveillance footage.
Howell sided with the media coalition, writing in a Sept. 15 opinion that the national security concerns weren’t specific enough. The government might have a stronger case for keeping videos secret that revealed “sensitive” parts of the building, but that wasn’t at issue, she wrote — anyone taking a public tour could see the areas shown in these videos.
“Hundreds of cases have arisen from the events of January 6, with new cases being brought and pending cases being resolved by plea agreement every week,” Howell wrote. “The public has an interest in understanding the conduct underlying the charges in these cases, as well as the government’s prosecutorial decision-making both in bringing criminal charges and resolving these charges by entering into plea agreements with defendants.”
At the link you can find five videos the court forced the government to release. They are, of course, the tip of the iceberg.
I’d like every single video to be released, and then people with far more patience than I can examine them and decide what percentage of the people are violent, how the violence began (who instigated it, and how much was aggressive and how much defensive), how most of the people entered (were they let in?), and even perhaps the ratio of undercover FBI agents to demonstrators (and the role of the agents) can be pointed out.
Here’s one of the videos:
Prosecutors Lost A Fight To Keep A Set Of Jan. 6 Capitol Surveillance Videos Under Seal https://t.co/IwJekF6hSX pic.twitter.com/FTnNPoyuPU
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) September 22, 2021
I’ve looked at each video – although not the entire video for the longer ones – and what I see is people milling about, some carrying flags and some taking photos, and then a fairly stable crowd forming outside the Senate wing doors, behind which the Capitol Police stand guard. The particular videos released don’t reveal an insurrection or a riot.
Should be “taking photos “, I think.
Prosecutors who have filed charges of trespass and such should be required to explain themselves with regard to each and every case.
This is how it was easy to know that no one was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. If that had happened they would have shown the video all day every day for at least a month.
They are hiding the rest of this because if you could look at it all you would know that this was a very small event.
Dwaz:
Well, it would be nice if the photos could talk, wouldn’t it?
Thanks; fixed.
Notice the full on Antifa guy in the helmet and gas mask trying to direct traffic. At about 23 seconds it looks like he’s talking to someone via a radio (?) in his left mask filter. No one casually arrives at a large demonstration without expecting serious violence. The only other people who are covered are a bunch of people with face scarves.
The videos reveal what we expected, and not what the MSM portrayed and what most of the Woke/Liberal crowd believes.
But, the release of these videos is safe now. The narrative has already been firmly established. The people that actually need to see them never will. Even if they are forced to watch, they won’t accept new evidence. The narrative has already been imprinted. Any information that conflicts will be rejected as false.
Once the “Big Lie” has been instilled, no amount of truth will ever undo it. That is why it is now okay for them to release this footage. They know that it is too late for it to make a difference.
“Any information that conflicts will be rejected as false.”
Yes, that is the scary thing.
And yet it’s not entirely true.
The Germans had their Red-Army-at-the-gates-of-Berlin moment (i.e., wakeup; though to be fair, quite a few Germans—especially in Berlin—had already “woken up” quite a bit before that).
The Japanese had Nagasaki (apparently Hiroshima alone didn’t quite do the trick).
One shudders to ponder what horrors might make the deluded “Biden” “faithful” see the light of day….
OMG, the violence! Might be, almost has to be the most peaceful “insurrection” in history… what a dissapointment it must be for the left. Yet democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have knowingly and repeatedly lied and imprisoned those seeking redress of grievance. May they get what’s coming to them in full.
Where is the Ozzy Man voice over?
A peaceful assembly derided, voices denied.
An executive offer to conduct crowd control rejected.
A riot (“disorder”) forced with an invitation extended, summarily withdrawn, and a Whitmer Closet event, another.
A “hero”, a novel apology for self-defense, an unarmed woman in a prone position murdered.
A handmade tale spun, brayed, again, to mold a sustainable misperception.
I suppose that all’s fair in lust and abortion.
The videos below the initial one on the Zoe Tillman link provided show significantly more violence. None of them are very long, and likely don’t show the full context, but some show what appears to be a handful of people who are definitely being violent.
Not that that bothers me, mind you. I think politicians should have a little fear of the populace, and this went a long way toward injecting that dynamic back into the realm of governance.
Might be, almost has to be the most peaceful “insurrection” in history
The violence was plausible, believable, a “burden”, a sustainable handmade tale in the 3rd, now the 4th trimester.
“The videos below the initial one on the Zoe Tillman link provided show significantly more violence.” gmmay70
What are you talking about? The very last one only shows one cop striking his baton out a window and that not very vigorously. All the rest are people walking around with a few hyper individuals jumping up and down like they’re high on something.
Watched the longer clip, saw short one couple times elsewhere. Last video towards end looks like smoke or tear gas.
The government was definitely keeping videos under wraps because it doesn’t show what they claim, and their cohorts who as far as I know are free clear and not being charged.
Not many participants with helmets, gas masks, or backpacks. Vast majority dressed for tourism rather than violence
I’m wondering who selected these clips, and what else is available. If they have 14,000 hours of video, that means the complex has > 1,700 cameras operating. The prosecutors have been claiming it will compromise security to reveal the location of the cameras. What does it matter what their precise location has been? They had cameras everywhere, each one on average covering an arc with a radius of 80 ft. (Only about 4% of the square footage of the Capitol complex is in the Capitol building itself, btw).
One interpretation I’ve seen of the behavior of Congress and our odious Department of Justice was that the reaction of the Capitol Police to the commotion was to insist those in the Senate chamber take cover, so you had these prima donnas with their face in the carpet; the vain fools want revenge for that.
You realize the DC bench has been complicit with Brady material being concealed for 8 months. Every judge but that one.
I thought at the time that it was a very bad idea to go into the Capitol under those circumstances. I have read a number of accounts of agents provocateur being seen at the demonstration. The refusal of extra security is another indication that this was a setup.
January 6 video archive from start to finish.
https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/
You know, for all the allegations of sedition, the actual charges against the protestors have been very anemic.