When Americans finally view the surveillance footage, January 6 will make alleged police abuse at LaFayette Square look like a day in the (federal) park.
By Julie Kelly December 2, 2021
For months, Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice has tried every trick in the law books to conceal from Americans a massive trove of video evidence that captured all the activity at the Capitol complex on January 6. Federal judges have played along, approving hundreds of protective orders to keep video clips—particularly footage recorded by the Capitol Police’s extensive closed-circuit television system—out of the public eye.
Ironically, the same corporate-media complex that has promoted any number of falsehoods about January 6 and defamed Capitol defendants agrees with McBride. An application filed this week by the Press Coalition—a group representing 16 major news companies including CNN, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal—also asked the D.C. District Court to release the videos in Nichols’ case.
It is nearly impossible to underscore how devastating the release of surveillance video from the “Gates of Hell,” as McBride described the scene inside the west terrace tunnel, will be to the accepted narrative about January 6. Coupled with other instances of police misconduct that day, including the random and unnecessary use of explosive crowd control devices before any violence took place, January 6 will make LaFayette Square look like a day in the (federal) park.
How the FBI Downplays Leftist Terror Activity
The investigation into the 2019 Dayton, Ohio mass shooting shows the Bureau cannot be trusted to identify left-wing violence.
By Kyle Shideler December 2, 2021
The FBI has repeatedly downplayed the threat of “left-wing” violence in support of a politicalized narrative which recognizes only white-supremacist groups or America’s “right-wing” as a potential threat. Indeed, under the Biden Administration’s domestic terrorism strategy, mere adherence to beliefs ranging from objections to COVID vaccine mandates, to election integrity concerns, to opposition to critical race theory in public schools have all been identified as hallmarks of violent extremism, even when there is no evidence of membership in supposedly extremist organizations.
This being the case, local and state law enforcement should no longer be deferential to FBI rulings on the political motivations of perpetrators in cases which may have a nexus to terrorism. While the FBI has lead jurisdictions on terrorism cases in the United States, their refusal to assert a terrorism nexus should not dissuade local or state law enforcement from conducting their own investigations, and bringing state terrorism charges, where such legislation exists.
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