Capitol Police Have 14,000 Hours Of Video on January 6th... Why hasn't any footage been released to the public? (Congress, legal)

[DRob4JC]

This is a valid question. It has been said that it was the most terrible insurrection effort in decades. I would like to see how bad it was.

Why Is the Government Hiding January 6 Video Footage?

Almost all the January 6 video seen by the public isn’t from official government sources but by social media users and journalists on the scene. For example, the widely viewed footage of protestors occupying the Senate chamber was recorded by a New Yorker journalist.

But thousands of hours of real-time footage is in the hands of the Capitol Police—and that agency, along with government lawyers and federal judges, is using every legal trick possible to keep the trove hidden from the public even as clips are presented in court as evidence against hundreds of January 6 defendants.

According to an affidavit filed in March by Thomas DiBiase, the Capitol Police department’s general counsel, the building is monitored 24/7 by an “extensive system of cameras” positioned both inside and outside the building as well as near other congressional offices on the grounds.

The system captured more than 14,000 hours of footage between noon and 8 p.m. on January 6; the archive was made available to two Democratic-controlled congressional committees, the FBI, and the D.C. Metropolitan Police department. (After a request by Congress, the agency reportedly handed over footage from the entire 24-hour period.)

[rantiquity]

I will tell you why...the videos might show who shot Ashli Babbitt.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by TheOffSeason

I recall seeing some of them open the floodgates.


Perhaps some of them were in on it?

Bingo

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by rantiquity

I will tell you why...the videos might show who shot Ashli Babbitt.

Double Bingo

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by TheOffSeason

I'm gonna go with the right wing response:

If she followed the law she would still be alive today...

If she was Black, high on drugs, resisting arrest, pulling a knife you would say "She didn't deserve to die".

[Malloric]

Probably 15,000 hours of it already was released to the public. That's why they have it. Kind of amazing that people would break into a federal building and then shoot videos of them vandalizing and stealing things... but, well, nobody said protesters were the smartest tools in the shed.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Malloric

Probably 15,000 hours of it already was released to the public. That's why they have it. Kind of amazing that people would break into a federal building and then shoot videos of them vandalizing and stealing things... but, well, nobody said protesters were the smartest tools in the shed.

Here’s a perfect example of that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost....o-nbc-cnn/amp/

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by Malloric

Probably 15,000 hours of it already was released to the public. That's why they have it. Kind of amazing that people would break into a federal building and then shoot videos of them vandalizing and stealing things... but, well, nobody said protesters were the smartest tools in the shed.

On social media by individuals - yes

By the Capitol Police from the 24 hour surveillance system - no

[BoSox 15]

Isn't it standard operating procedure for any police activity that's under investigation or subject to a court case?

I would have assumed the "law and order" folk would understand that.

[moneill]

If we didn't have all the folks who broke the law filming themselves breaking the law, we might need to see the body cams of the law enforcement officers.