Category: U.S. Capitol

Ashli Babbitt Plead With Police To Call For Backup Moments Before She Was Shot and Killed

Just moments before she was shot and killed, Ashli Babbitt confronted the police officers guarding the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, blasting them for allowing rioters to smash the windows and not calling for backup, an analysis of a journalist’s video shows. The analysis comes on the…


Ashli Babbitt Pleaded With Police to Call for Backup Moments Before She Was Shot and Killed

Just moments before she was shot and killed, Ashli Babbitt confronted the police officers guarding the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, blasting them for allowing rioters to smash the windows and not calling for backup, an analysis of a journalist’s video shows. The analysis comes on the…


Babbitt Tried to Stop Attack on Capitol Speaker’s Lobby, Video Shows

Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, according to video analysis shows. Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s…


Jan. 6 Defendant Says FBI Tried to Recruit Him to Spy on Oath Keepers

A retired U.S. Army Green Beret arrested for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, says the FBI tried to recruit him to spy on the Oath Keepers group a few weeks before the violence at the Capitol. Jeremy M. Brown, 47, who is being held in the Pinellas County Jail in Florida…


11 Oath Keepers Charged with Seditious Conspiracy to Prevent Transfer of Power on Jan. 6

Eleven members of the Oath Keepers, including the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes, were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for an alleged “seditious conspiracy” to attack the U.S. Capitol and prevent the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election. The indictment, returned Jan. 12 and unsealed Thursday,…


Defense Attorney Accuses Jan. 6 Committee of Manipulating Public Opinion ‘Rather Than Collecting Facts’ on Ray Epps

The Jan. 6 committee’s announcement that it has cleared Ray Epps of being an FBI informant during the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is an effort to “manipulate public opinion rather than collect facts,” an attorney representing a Jan. 6 defendant said Wednesday. The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th…


Jan. 6 Committee Accused by Defense Attorney of Manipulating Public Opinion ‘Rather Than Collecting Facts’ on Ray Epps

The Jan. 6 committee’s announcement that it has cleared Ray Epps of being an FBI informant during the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is an effort to “manipulate public opinion rather than collect facts,” an attorney representing a Jan. 6 defendant said Wednesday. The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th…


Photographer Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt’s Killing Remains a Man of Contradictions

John E. Sullivan, the social-justice provocateur who dressed as a Trump supporter at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and filmed the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, at times says he does not believe in God, yet at other times, he does believe. He recently produced a series of Satan-themed music videos, but says he…


Videos Shed Light on Death of Rosanne Boyland at US Capitol on Jan. 6

Newly released video from the West Terrace tunnel of the U.S. Capitol provides more details on the collapse, beating, and death of Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6, 2021. A three-hour video unsealed in late December in a Jan. 6 federal criminal case shows the 34-year-old President Donald Trump supporter entered the tunnel, was pushed back…


Victoria White Files Federal Suit for Jan. 6 Beating at US Capitol

Victoria C. White, the Minnesota woman who suffered an alleged beating by District of Columbia police in the West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging assault, battery, and excessive use of force. Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawsuit initially…