by Julie Kelly
Recently-released surveillance video from inside the lower west terrace tunnel at the Capitol building from last January 6 confirms what American Greatness has reported for months: law enforcement officers from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Capitol Police led a brutal assault against Trump supporters trapped inside that tunnel during the Capitol protest.
The three-hour clip offers one angle of what happened between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the tunnel, the site of the most violent clashes between police and protesters. It also is the location where Rosanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia, died.
One clip shows the attack on Victoria White, a Minnesota mother of four who was viciously beaten by at least two D.C. Metro officers including a supervisor:
As per @julie_kelly2, Victoria White was violently beaten while trapped between police on 1/6, while trying to escape to safety.
Here is enlarged & enhanced footage. You can see her climbing up to breathe fresh air, as she’s pummeled in the face by unnamed Metro PD supervisor. https://t.co/xFChhGiZ2f pic.twitter.com/kQW9TMj4CW
— Darth Crypto aKa Jesse Feinberg aced his LSATS (@DefNotDarth) December 25, 2021
The video supports what White told me in a series of interviews earlier this month; she was repeatedly beaten on the head with a baton and punched directly in the face numerous times by police. One officer grabbed her by the hair and shook her head side to side. Government charging documents, however, claim White—who is 5’6”, weighs 155 pounds, and had no weapon—was the aggressor:
“By approximately 4:07 p.m., WHITE’s red cap had fallen off, she lost her black coat, and she can be seen inside the entranceway grabbing for one of the MPD officers standing on a ledge,” an FBI investigator wrote in a 12-page complaint. “As the video progresses, the MPD officers attempt to push WHITE back with their riot shields and fend her off with a baton. WHITE is seen in a red sweater, and it appears that she is attempting to grab a shield and uses her hand to block the baton.”
White, bleeding from the head in a photo included in the complaint, was transported to a D.C. police station and released the evening of January 6. The FBI raided her home and took her into custody on April 8; in September, a grand jury indicted White on four counts including disorderly conduct.
Darth Crypto, an anonymous Twitter account with access to the video footage, produced a separate clip showing a police officer punching another unidentified woman in the face:
NEW 1/6 ANALYSIS: I’ll use this thread as I look closer at the 1/6 footage. I’m finding many instances of the immense & unjustified violent behavior of some officers.
I just found this un identified woman in white, who is punched in the face as the officers push into the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/E8WeAHZHvJ
— Darth Crypto aKa Jesse Feinberg aced his LSATS (@DefNotDarth) December 26, 2021
An officer standing on a ledge inside the tunnel sprayed pepper spray and attacked two women within a matter of minutes, hitting one woman attempting to escape the melee with his baton and stomping another woman on the head after she fell down from the force of the crowd:
I believe this officer, Ledge Guy, will appear more in my analyses. He repeatedly shows outward aggression far and beyond what’s justified.
As I mention in my narrated video, he uses force reserved for an aggressive attacker, against a defenseless women as he stomps on her face. pic.twitter.com/qlgzWH7IVp
— Darth Crypto aKa Jesse Feinberg aced his LSATS (@DefNotDarth) December 26, 2021
Another unidentified person—it’s hard to determine from the grainy footage whether it is a man or woman—trapped in the lower-left corner of the tunnel is beaten by other officers at the mouth of the tunnel. When someone outside of the tunnel attempts to drag the person out, an officer pulls the person back into the corner of the tunnel and traps him/her with a riot shield to endure more beatings.
As per @julie_kelly2, Victoria White was violently beaten while trapped between police on 1/6, while trying to escape to safety.
Here is enlarged & enhanced footage. You can see her climbing up to breathe fresh air, as she’s pummeled in the face by unnamed Metro PD supervisor. https://t.co/xFChhGiZ2f pic.twitter.com/kQW9TMj4CW
— Darth Crypto aKa Jesse Feinberg aced his LSATS (@DefNotDarth) December 25, 2021
Protesters witnessing the brutality confronted and attacked officers in return. Shortly before 4:30 p.m., Rosanne Boyland’s lifeless body was face-up on the ground outside the tunnel. Her friend, Justin Winchell, begged for help. “She’s dead, she’s dead!” he screamed, according to body-worn camera footage.
In April, the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office concluded Boyland died of an accidental drug overdose; her family reportedly has hired an investigator to find out the real cause of her death.
Police began attacking crowds of protesters peacefully assembled outside the Capitol building around 1:15 p.m. on January 6, shortly after President Trump finished his speech at the Ellipse. Capitol Police deployed tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd while D.C. Metro police threw flashbangs and sting balls filled with rubber bullets, which prompted many of the initial confrontations between police and protesters.
Michael Byrd, a lieutenant with Capitol police, shot Ashli Babbitt at near point-blank range, killing her just outside the Speaker’s Lobby at 2:43 p.m. on January 6.
At least two January 6 defendants charged with assaulting police officers will accuse law enforcement of excessive force that day and cite self-defense as a reason for their conduct. The Justice Department has asked a judge to prevent one January 6 defendant from presenting “any evidence that he had a reasonable belief that his actions were necessary to defend himself against the immediate use of unlawful force.” Prosecutors also want to conceal the names of officers involved in any altercations with protesters on January 6.
Defense lawyers expect the release of more surveillance videos over the next few months.
No officer on duty that day has been charged with unlawful force; three D.C. Metro and one Capitol Police officer reportedly have committed suicide since January 6.
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Julie Kelly reports for American Greatness.
3 DC Metro police and 1 Capitol police officer have committed suicide since 1/6, before the end of 2021? Does this seem strange to anyone else? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they were ‘suicided’ Hillary-style when they saw the injustice being done to their fellow Americans and perhaps wanted to come forward.
Allegedly? Are you kidding? The evidence that is right here shows enough to convict 50% of the criminal malfeasance and 25% of crimes including murder.
Did these women do anything to provoke the police? A police officer’s job is highly stressful: at least, that is what you conservatives USED to say when the police targeted only leftists and others you all didn’t like.
Sometimes there is a reason; it’s not easy to make life or death decisions in a split second and I think it’s important for everyone to remember that. That said, I will never lightly dismiss someone else’s claim of being treated unfairly again. Until the last few years, life’s treated me pretty well. But since I became a Trump supporter I’ve become well-acquainted with what it feels like to be targeted and lied about, to gleefully abused by ignorant people. I have to say it’s made me a wiser person and greatly broadened my life experience.
If you’re a Trump supporter, you’ve been lied to BY Trump. He’s a serial liar and grifter, and if you take anything he says as truth, I feel sorry for you.
Poor Kate she’s been a victim of msm yelling fire in a crowded theater, these type of lies can hurt innocent viewers like kate here.
Hope you get your life back dear.
The razor thin justification for BLM and other violent offenders during the previous summer’s riot, oh , mostly peaceful protests, illustrates the deception and propaganda that keeps us from having honest dialog and furthers the divide in the country. But that is their goal and it is sad that you are falling for it by parroting propaganda talking points. There are probably plants on both sides of this issue that are seeking stir up resentment and unnecessary conflict.. So, we need to avoid becoming pawns when we fall victim to our vanity to make premature judgements. Just let the facts, all the facts come out without running anti commentary when someone else is giving testimony. Seek witness not hearsay or commentary when searching for facts. The evidence of these beatings are far at least equivalent to Michael Brown or George Floyd and yet the commentary and hearsay on these incidents are put forward are quite different in those cases. We the people are being manipulated hearsay and commentary, even mayors and prosecutors who as officers of the court and lawmakers and should know better. It is curious as to the lack of calling these law enforcement officers into testify at the less that thorough investigation by Congress on the events of the day including the killing of an unarmed protestor and the suspected plant that videoed the event as well as the officer that pulled the trigger as well as other officers who witnessed the incident. Yet the lack of testimony and subsequent justification for the decoration of the officer who shot an unarmed woman are mysteries which should be answered in the name of justice like the officers who were accused of killing Brown and Floyd had to face. Just equal, no more or less.