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    the capitol building was BLOWN UP by a bomb in the 80's... and a bunch of tourists walking around is now an "incident" ? yeah.... lol strange times...



    the desperate grab for attention is probably the more important thing here
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    the capitol building was BLOWN UP by a bomb in the 80's... and a bunch of tourists walking around is now an "incident" ?
    Kind of like this:

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    Funny, I just saw this video and wanted to share this, now this topic is perfect for that.

    It is about Nancy Pelosi's comments on Antifa/BLM protests and the Capitol protests. Now, to be fair, the people up front, who did engage the police/security and went into the Capital first, are not shown in this video, but since they were also Antifa/BLM it doesn't make a difference. But even if you believe they were some deranged Trump supporters, they were a very small minority.

    https://www.brighteon.com/5a324ad5-5...2-debb9d2727a6

    Edit: link is now working.
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    More video footage confirms Antifa damaging the Capitol Building

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    Whoever changed my title needs to stop. Change it back or take out the ""

    I do not appreciate you changing my title. But if you leave the ""
    then you are changing the meaning of my words which is unacceptable.

    Please remove the "" around incident please. Not cool to change my words and make me look like I do not believe this was an incident.

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    the capitol building was blown up by a bomb in the 80's... And a bunch of tourists walking around is now an "incident" ? Yeah.... Lol strange times...



    the desperate grab for attention is probably the more important thing here
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    Whoever changed my title needs to stop. Change it back or take out the ""
    I notified Administration of your request.

    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    the capitol building was BLOWN UP by a bomb in the 80's... and a bunch of tourists walking around is now an "incident" ? yeah.... lol strange times...



    the desperate grab for attention is probably the more important thing here
    Just in case others like me aren't able to see the image.

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    So then there is this.
    From a lawyer.
    WIth Citations.



    There appear to be many laws on the books.

    Do you appreciate GOP people being locked up under Patriot Act and Anti terrorism laws? When they came for the Muslims, I didnt care because I wasnt a Muslim . . .

    Maybe now we all understand how dangerous constantly spending billions on the Military Industrial Complex actually is even to citizens.

    Maybe now we can discuss disbanding the FBI and CIA etc. and lowering our DOD budget and maybe not occupying all these countries.


    My favorite part is when someone tried to bring up a past act of terrorism like it has any relevance to the incident that occurred on January 6th when the president told people that the vote was stolen and that they needed to walk to congress and "stop the steal"

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    • Trump DID NOT Incite January 6! | Louder With Crowder:

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    I was going to put this in the meme thread, but since this got bumped....



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    ‘THE TRUTH ABOUT JANUARY 6TH’ (2022) – FULL DOCUMENTARY
    June 12, 2022
    https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the...l-documentary/

    "Narrated by 27-year-old Jake Lang from his prison cell in solitary confinement at the DC Central Detention Facility, ‘The Truth About January 6th’ gathers never-before-seen cellphone footage taken at the scene of the Capitol Riot, refuting the Establishment narrative of the events of that day.

    Last September, Revolver.News investigative journalist, Darren Beattie reported on the 1/6 Commission and how it was “The highest-stakes, most dangerous and most important story in the country.”

    Beattie said that the evidence was overwhelming that 1/6 was actually orchestrated by the US Government saying, “I believe [it] was engineered as an infiltration operation. This false narrative is now the key pretext that our National Security state is using to ram through Patriot Act 2.0, the Domestic War on Terror.”

    Beattie was proven right about this Domestic War on Terror, with recent revelations about the FBI profiling parents attending school board meetings and documents leaked from a DHS whistleblower showing that the agency’s Disinformation Governance Board was part of an effort by the Federal Government to work with private social-media platforms to police the content of Americans.

    This is contrary to the lies of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, when he perjured himself before the Senate Homeland Security Committee last May.

    Beattie pointed to over 20 unindicted co-conspirators in the 1/6 indictments who had not been charged for the same activities — in some cases, more severe activities — as those named alongside them in the indictments. Beattie believes these individuals, such as Ray Epps were not indicted, due to grants of immunity because they are either federal agents or assets.

    Epps is seen in the 1/6 videos, ordering people to storm the Capitol and to break into the Capitol building. He was never indicted, while his own statements and actions were used by the Government to incriminate and to deny bail to underlings in the Oathkeepers. Why did the Commission ignore Ray Epps?

    Last January, The Epoch Times reported that Ashli Babbitt pleaded with police to call for backup and tried to prevent the attack, not join it, moments before she was shot and killed in cold blood by Capitol Police Lt. Mike Byrd, based on the analysis of a new video that had emerged from that day:

    “Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as ‘violent,’ a ‘rioter,’ or an ‘insurrectionist’ who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby.”

    Investigative reporter, Tayler Hansen told The Epoch Times that he’d just recently retrieved an Instagram live-stream video he shot the year before, on January 6th, 2021. It shows Babbitt walking inside the Capitol, as she first turned the corner into the Speaker’s Lobby hallway.

    He said it confirms what he told The Epoch Times on January 17th, that Babbitt was friendly with the police officers when she first approached the doors.

    Babbitt served as a police officer in the US Air Force during her 14 years of military service. Her husband, Aaron believes her law enforcement experience told her something was wrong.

    Meanwhile, Lt. Mike Byrd raised $122,000 on GoFundMe and was pardoned by investigators without ever being called in to testify by DC Metro Police. Then in August, in a classic example of Satanic Inversion, Byrd was lionized in an NBC News interview with Lester Holt, in which he claimed that by killing Ashli, he “saved countless lives”. Similarly, the January 6th Commission is an orgy of Satanic Inversion.

    This past Sunday, June 12, 2022, Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Maria Bartiromo at FoxNews that, “This committee has altered evidence and lied to the American people about it, so much so that they had to issue a statement which says, we regret the error, which is government-speak for, we got caught lying,” Jordan continued. “So that’s what this committee is about. I think the country sees it for what it is, a partisan political activity.”

    In June 2021, intelligence insider, Fort Detrick alum and US Senate candidate for Maryland, Dr Jonathan McGreevey joined Stew Peters with his jaw-dropping account of what really happened on 1/6, claiming that Nancy Pelosi orchestrated the January 6th false flag, with a lot of help from the FBI.

    McGreevey said, “She even called in the orders to ‘get’ someone to sacrifice,” and that you can see the shooter responding to orders from Pelosi’s people in his earpiece.

    McGreevey explained that Byrd couldn’t use the normal communications systems because of the law enforcement present and all the journalists listening in on the Capitol Police scanners, so they were using military encrypted communications, which were provided by the Commander of the National Guard in DC, Major General William Walker – the same commander who denied President Trump’s request to bring troops on 1/6.

    Walker was promptly rewarded by Pelosi with the plum job of Sergeant at Arms of the US House of Representatives.

    Four Capitol Police officers have since “committed suicide” and a fifth died from a stroke. However, the gaslighting fake news frequently lies, to this day that their deaths were caused by Trump supporters.

    The January 6th deaths of four Trump supporters have been totally misrepresented, when they haven’t been completely ignored. Phillip Anderson was standing next to Rosanne Boyland while the Capitol Police sadistically beat her to death, as she lay on the ground, unconscious and motionless.

    In the film, we see the savage beating she received from several different angles and how the Capitol Police tear-gassed those trying to rescue and drag her to safety.

    As Cara Castronuovo says, “Fifteen people currently sit in solitary confinement since January 6th who witnessed what happened to Roseanne Boyland, who all say they were trying to help her and others and save their lives, that were underneath the pile of protestors that were on top of Roseanne Boyland but were getting tear-gassed and hit by police – anybody that tried to save these peoples’ lives.”

    Protestors dragged Boyland away and attempted CPR, while the cops (whose job it was to do so) watched.

    The footage shows protestors trying to de-escalate the situation afterwards but one police officer continued to lob concussion grenades at the packed-in protesters.

    We now learn that one of these grenades struck Benjamin Phillips, which stopped his heart and killed him. Kevin Greeson was also killed by a “non-lethal” stun grenade from the barrage thrown into the crowd by Capitol Police.

    These two men were at the far perimeter of the crowd and not near the scrum of the conflict. The Fake News never talks about how these to men died. As Castronuovo says, “If you Google their names…it’ll just say that they died of a heart attack at a Trump rally.”

    We also see footage of a Capitol Police Officer relentlessly beating Victoria White with a collapsible ASP. She was beaten half to death but survived.

    Attorney Joseph McBride says, “That device, as per DC Police protocol is supposed to…be used to break windows in emergencies and it’s supposed to be used below the shoulders or for self-defense,” neither of which apply in this footage.

    Attorney Joseph McBride says, “The Capitol Police were under-staffed, they were under-manned, despite multiple calls from President Trump and other people in the administration to man the Capitol and to defend it better. They were under-manned – feels like intentionally – to provoke a conflict.

    “A conflict happened that day, and as a result, we have this massive dragnet for everybody who had the courage to go to DC to object to the election results, is now a target of the Department of Justice.”

    Due to the “Defund the Police” movement, more than 90% of criminals in DC are released without bail, yet hundreds of those arrested at the Capitol Riot have been denied bail and were still languishing in solitary confinement after 17 months, at the time this film was released.

    The BLM-Antifa riots of 2020 caused $2 billion in damages and killed over 20 people, while the gaslighting propaganda media gloated approvingly and called them “Peaceful Protests”.

    From his prison cell, Jake Lang asks, “What is the hidden agenda behind the difference of treatment, from the January 6th political prisoners to the Black Lives Matter/Antifa rioters?

    “Why have I been held for 17 months with no bail while the kid gloves have been handed off to Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters for firebombing buildings and assaulting police officers?…There’s an obvious bias against conservatives in America.”

    A year ago, Jonathan McGreevey told Stew Peters that the Democrats didn’t expect they would pull off the 2020 election fraud, saying, “They thought the fraud would be uncovered quickly. They thought that President Trump would not leave…

    “They couldn’t believe that he was leaving. They were absolutely stunned the Patriots didn’t take to the streets and shut down the country.”

    The January 6th Commission was chartered and it has continued to act as if Trump supporters had, in fact mounted a massive insurgency to overthrow the Government, which is not, at all what happened.

    Rumble Comment by MickieKnows: Nancy Pelosi is the Commander-in-Chief of the Capitol Hill Police in her position as Speaker of the House. The head of the Capitol Hill Police tendered his resignation the day following the event to his boss – Nancy Pelosi.

    At the point at which Pence began the proceeding of the debate to satisfy the double set of electors and determine which party would win those states, Nancy Pelosi was seen leaving the chamber. She was gone for about 10 minutes. When she returned the Capitol Hill doors magically opened.

    What likely happened? She went to her office and called the head of the Capitol Hill police and told him to open the doors. He refused, so she called someone else.

    To refuse an order like that he knew he had to resign so he did that the next day. This entire thing was Pelosi’s doing. It is about time people began looking at her seriously. "

    Also posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1502858


    Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v14zgec/?pub=ijro7
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    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of DOJ Memo Declining Criminal Prosecution for Ashli Babbitt’s Shooter
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    Shooter U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd Did Not Create a Police Report on Killing, Byrd Had Prior ‘Use of Force’ Issue


    "(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that it received productions of new records totaling 102 pages from the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to the shooting of January 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt that include a memo recommending “that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of Ashli McEntee [Babbitt],” also noting that the shooter, U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, “did not create a police report or documents” related to the shooting of Babbitt.

    The documents also reveal that in the press release announcing the decision not to prosecute Byrd for the killing of Babbitt, the DOJ replaced the words “group” and “crowd” with the word “mob” several times.

    The unarmed Babbitt was shot and killed as she climbed through a broken interior window in the United States Capitol. She was a 14-year Air Force veteran. The identity of the shooter was kept secret by Congress, the Justice Department, and DC police for eight months until Byrd went public to try to defend his killing of Babbitt.

    The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the Civil Rights Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (all components of the Justice Department) failed to provide the records responsive to Judicial Watch’s April 14, 2021, and May 20, 2021, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records related to the death of Babbitt (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:21-cv-02462))

    The records contain the prosecution declination memorandum justifying the decision not to prosecute Byrd for the shooting death of Babbitt (nee McEntee) on January 6.

    The “Overview and Recommendation” section reads as follows:

    This memorandum recommends that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of Ashli McEntee.

    ***

    This declination is based on a review of law enforcement and civilian eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, recorded radio communications, cell phone footage, MPD reports, forensic reports, and the autopsy report for Ms. McEntee. After a thorough review of the facts and circumstances in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant Byrd violated Ms. McEntee’s civil rights by willfully using more force than was reasonably necessary, or was not acting in self-defense or the defense of others.

    The memo details:

    Once the demonstrators broke the glass, Lieutenant Byrd took up a tactical position to the immediate right of the barricaded entry doors, [Capitol Police Officer Reggie Tyson] took up a tactical position behind Lieutenant Byrd on the right side behind the third pillar and Sergeant McKenna took up a tactical position behind Officer Tyson and behind the fourth pillar on the right side of the Speakers Lobby.

    ***

    All three officers had their service pistols drawn, pointed them in the direction of the barricaded entry doors, and repeatedly instructed the ‘mob’ to get back. The ‘mob’ of demonstrators ignored the officers’ commands and continued to break the glass on the doors in their attempt to breach the Speakers Lobby. Suddenly, Ashli McEntee began to crawl through one of the doors where the glass was already broken out. As Ms. McEntee was climbing through the door, Lieutenant Byrd stepped forward from his tactical position towards Ms. McEntee and fired one round from his service pistol striking Ms. McEntee in her left shoulder, just below her clavicle. Ms. McEntee then fell back from the doorway and onto the floor.

    Regarding possible closed-circuit television footage the memo notes “There are several USCP operated Closed-Circuit Television Video (CCTV) cameras inside of the United States Capitol Building. However, there were no CCTV cameras observed or located in the Speaker’s Lobby area.”

    In a section of the memo titled “USCP Lieutenant Michael Byrd,” the memo notes: “He [Byrd] did not create any police reports or documents relating to the incident, and did not provide an official statement regarding use of force” though he did provide a voluntary “debrief” and walk-through of the scene with his lawyer. A footnote details that: “During the debrief of Lieutenant Byrd, he did recall writing a few sentences on an evidence bag the evening of January 6, 2021, at the request of a crime scene officer. To date, the bag has not been located by USCP or MPD.”

    The memo reports:

    Lieutenant Byrd heard glass breaking and saw some of the items used to barricade the doors being pushed down. Lieutenant Byrd continued to tell the rioters to “get back, get back!” Lieutenant Byrd then saw a rioter with a backpack on start to climb through one of the broken glass doors. Lieutenant Byrd saw the rioter “as a threat,” so he stepped forward from his tactical position and fired one round at the rioter. The rioter fell back out of the opening and Lieutenant Byrd eventually stepped back into the seated area of the Speaker’s Lobby before confirming to other USCP officers that arrived on the scene that he was the one that fired his service weapon.

    The memo notes that security staffing on January 6 was less than half the usual amount due to COVID-19:

    Lieutenant Byrd did agree to participate with this counsel, Mark Schamel, in a voluntary debrief and walk-through of the scene on January 29, 2021 … Due to COVID-19 and other issues, the normal staffing for a joint session was less than half of what Lieutenant Byrd usually has assigned to the House Chamber. Once he arrived that morning, he was informed that USCP operations had made the decision that the uniform officers needed to pick up riot gear.

    In a section titled, “Use of Force History,” it is noted that, “Lieutenant Byrd had one prior use of force matter, that was originally sustained by USCP, but after Lt. Byrd appealed, he was found not guilty by the Disciplinary Review Board.”

    In a section titled “Recommendation,” the memo details:

    This matter does not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes or the District of Columbia homicide statutes. To show a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242, the applicable federal criminal civil rights statute, the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an officer willfully used more force than was reasonably necessary under the circumstances. ‘The “reasonableness” of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.’ Graham v Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 396 (1989).

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    Because Ms. McEntee was an active participant in a ‘mob’ that had just illegally entered the Capitol building, and then broke out the glass doors and removed barricades to forcefully gain entry into the Speaker’s Lobby, there is insufficient evidence to refute Lieutenant Byrd’s fear for his life or the life of others at the time he discharged his weapon. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he willfully deprived Ms. McEntee of a right protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States of America. Accordingly I recommend declination of this matter.

    The records include a draft version of the April 14, 2021, Justice Department press release announcing their decision not to prosecute Byrd for the killing of Babbitt, the authors replaced the word “crowd” with the word “mob” five times in describing the January 6 protestors.

    The documents also include charts of January 6 investigations and targets. For one of the investigations, it is noted that a New York Times reporter is a “CW” [confidential witness]. Another notation tied to “pipe bombs” notes that a “geo fence” request was made to Google.

    Judicial Watch previously uncovered records from the DC Metropolitan Police showed that multiple officers claimed they didn’t see a weapon in Babbitt’s hand before Byrd shot her, and that Byrd was visibly distraught afterward. One officer attested that he didn’t recall hearing any verbal commands before Byrd shot Babbitt. The records include internal communications about Byrd’s case and a crime scene examination report. Investigators who wrote the January 6, 2021, Metro PD Death Report for Babbitt (identified as Ashli Elizabeth McEntee-Babbitt Pamatian) note that the possible Manner of Death was “Homicide (Police Involved Shooting).”

    “These records show that Lt. Byrd was given special treatment by the Biden DOJ and that there was a miscarriage of justice in the half-baked shooting death investigation of Ashli Babbitt,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Lt. Byrd, who works for Congress, shot an unarmed woman for no good reason. I suspect that this unjustified shooting isn’t of much interest to the Pelosi rump January 6 committee.”

    Judicial Watch is engaged in a comprehensive, independent investigation into the January 6 disturbance:

    February 2022: Judicial Watch filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police’s (USCP) effort to shut down Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails. Through its police department, Congress argues that the videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that “sovereign immunity” prevents citizens from suing for their release.
    November 2021: Judicial Watch released multiple audio, visual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building. The records include a cell phone video of the shooting and an audio of a brief police interview of the shooter, Byrd.
    Also in November 2021: Judicial Watch – in its FOIA lawsuit asking for records of communication between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and several financial institutions about the reported transfer of financial transaction records of people in DC, Maryland and Virginia on January 5 and January 6, 2021 – told a federal court that the FBI may have violated law in its January 6 probes."
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