![]() ![]() The chief of the US Capitol Police, Tom Manger, issued a terse statement when asked about the new release of footage: “When Congressional Leadership or Congressional Oversight Committees ask for things like this, we must give it to them.” The House committee investigating the January 6 attack went through a painstaking process to work closely with the US Capitol Police to review and ultimately release approved segments of the surveillance footage as part of its public hearings last year. Gripping images and videos from the Capitol attack by Mr Trump’s supporters have been widely circulated by documentarians, news organisations and even the rioters themselves.īut officials have held back much of the surveillance video from hundreds of security cameras stationed in and around the Capitol that offer a detailed view of the grisly scene and the brutal beatings of police as they tried to stop the rioters. ![]() Mr McCarthy’s office declined to confirm the arrangement, first reported by Axios, despite repeated requests for comment. “Kevin McCarthy has turned over the security of the Capitol to Tucker Carlson and that’s a scary thought.” “It is not lost on anyone that the one person that the speaker decides to give hours and hours of sensitive secret surveillance footage is the person who peddled a bogus documentary trying to debunk responsibility for the January 6 riot from Donald Trump onto others,” Mr Goldman said. Many critics warn that Capitol security could be endangered if Mr Carlson airs security footage that details how the rioters accessed the building and the routes politicians used to flee to safety.Īnd a sharply partisan retelling of the Capitol attack could accelerate a dangerous rewriting of the history of what happened on January 6, when Mr Trump encouraged a mob of supporters to head to the Capitol to overturn Joe Biden’s election. ![]()
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