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New Jan. 6 Details Emerge From 20,000 Hours of Newly Released Video
from The Epoch Times:
The more than 20,000 hours of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol security video made public by a GOP-controlled House committee since November 2023 have started to fill in details long hidden by the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ordered security video be uploaded to publicly accessible servers beginning last November. Eventually, staff from the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight established a channel on the video platform Rumble to store the footage.
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“Today’s release marks the halfway point of the estimated 40,000 hours we intend to publish,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, said on April 15.
“Not only are we releasing all video footage, but we will continue to release all findings, videos, and documents until everything is available for the public to see the full picture of the events surrounding that day,” Mr. Loudermilk said in a statement.
Ashli Babbitt
The fatal shooting of 35-year-old Ms. Babbitt received no attention from the Jan. 6 committee.
While the shooting itself was captured on video only by bystanders in the hallway outside the Speaker’s Lobby, security video showed efforts by FBI medics, Capitol Police tactical officers, and paramedics to save Ms. Babbitt’s life.
As rioting raged in the Speaker’s Lobby hallway just after 2:40 p.m., it seemed virtually no one noticed Lt. Michael Byrd slip out from his hidden position with his Glock pistol aimed at the dozens of people just feet to his right.
Ms. Babbitt spent her few minutes in the hallway trying to keep the crowd from spiraling further into mob behavior. The former Air Force military police officer shouted at three Capitol Police officers to “call [expletive] help” before she used a left hook to sideline rioter Zachary Alam for smashing several windows.
Mr. Byrd lunged forward and fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt as she attempted to climb through a broken-out side panel of the Speaker’s Lobby entrance. The shooting, which was never announced as an officer-involved incident on the Capitol Police radio, sent would-be rescuers toward the Capitol’s South Door.
The first video indication of a response to calls for help was at the South Door of the Capitol just before 2:50 p.m. A Capitol Police officer led a five-man FBI SWAT team into the front of the Hall of Columns.
FBI medics, U.S. Capitol Police, and D.C. Fire and EMS paramedics rendered medical aid to Ashli Babbitt after she was shot outside the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. Capitol Police, Steve Baker)
The FBI agents sailed through the security screening area and turned right down the adjacent hallway. Moments later, Camera 0176 showed, an FBI medic helped Capitol Police carry Ms. Babbitt and lay her on the floor near the magnetometer. She was carried head down with her feet elevated as her upper chest wound began to bleed profusely.
At 2:55:40 p.m., Engine 6 from the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department rumbled through the South Barricade, followed a minute later by Rescue Unit 10. Sgt. Paramedic Tim Bennett hustled through the barricade on foot just ahead of the ambulance, CCTV video showed.
At 2:58:37 p.m., paramedics with a gurney rushed through the South Door Vestibule, security Camera 0181 showed. Ms. Babbitt was moved from the floor to the gurney at 2:59:33 p.m., while a paramedic performed CPR.
The gurney was maneuvered around the magnetometer and out the South Door. Video shows the entryway was not fully taped off as a crime scene until 3:58 p.m., allowing police officers and protesters to walk through the blood trail on the floor left as Ms. Babbitt was wheeled out.
As the gurney got close to Rescue Unit 10 in the South Barricade Plaza, a group of protesters crowded around the back of the ambulance, security video showed. Some shouted at police for the shooting of Ms. Babbitt.
Ms. Babbitt was placed into the ambulance, which rushed through the South Barricade at 3:02:03 p.m. She was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m. at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Her widower and her estate have filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S government.
Police Swarm Capitol
An immediate effect of the fatal shooting was a swarming police presence in and around the Capitol, security video showed. Mr. Byrd made a radio report after he shot Ms. Babbitt at 2:44 p.m., claiming that he was under fire and was preparing to return fire. That was never true.
Mr. Babbitt’s lawsuit alleges that the false radio report, which was never corrected or retracted, created a dangerous situation in the Capitol since responding officers had no idea if there were armed rioters loose. In truth, Mr. Byrd’s shot was the only gun fired and no officers were confronted with guns or gunfire.
Security video showed the anxiety and fear on the faces of police officers who moved through the Capitol with weapons drawn.
At 2:47 p.m., an armored BearCat from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) pulled into the South Barricade Plaza. Just before 2:49 p.m., a six-person ATF SWAT team rushed in the South Door and went up the stairs toward the House Chamber.
