Category: U.S. Capitol

January 6: A Legacy of Troubling Questions

The hardened-steel baton made the most disturbing sound as it bounced off Victoria White’s skull. It varied between a hollow click and a deeper snap, depending on where on her head the metal weapon made contact. “Please don’t beat her!” a man in the crowd yelled. It was chaos in the West Terrace tunnel entrance…


Jan. 6 Detainee at Risk of Dying from Lack of Medical Care, Attorney Says

A January 6 defendant being held in Virginia is extremely ill and at risk of dying because the jail refuses to provide proper medical care and a special diet for his celiac disease, New York attorney Joseph McBride alleges. “They’re starving the guy out,” McBride told The Epoch Times. “They have moved him six times…


Aaron Babbitt Is on a Mission to Get Justice for Wife Ashli: ‘She Will Be Remembered’

It might have been the death threats. Perhaps it was the fake sympathy cards sent to his office, containing photos of his wife lying in a pool of her own blood. Maybe it was the news media that called his wife a terrorist and an insurrectionist who “stormed the Capitol” and was shot dead in…


Documentary Drops Inconvenient Truths on the Jan. 6 Narrative

“If she was your friend, you needed no other friend.” That’s how Aaron Babbitt describes his wife, Ashli Babbitt, 35, the U.S. Air Force veteran shot and killed outside the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. What started as a patriotic day with a speech by President Donald Trump ended…


Jan. 6 Protester Struck Nearly 40 Times in 4 Minutes, Video Shows

A Minnesota woman who said she got trapped inside the west terrace tunnel of the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 protests was struck by police nearly 40 times in a little more than 4 minutes, newly released surveillance video shows. Victoria C. White, 39, of Rochester, Minn., was charged in federal court with numerous…


Lawyer Calls for Special Prosecutor in ‘Evil’ Beating of Jan. 6 Protester Caught on Video

An attorney representing a Minnesota woman allegedly beaten by a Metropolitan Police Department supervisor outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is calling for a special prosecutor to be appointed after the release of dramatic video footage of the incident on Thursday. Victoria C. White, 39, of Rochester, Minn., had been arrested in April and charged…


House Republicans Call on Democrats to Reopen US Capitol Complex to the Public

A trio of House Republicans told a special hearing of the House Committee on Administration Friday that it is past time to reopen the U.S. Capitol to the public and to depoliticize the rule-making process that has kept it closed for nearly two years. “When this virus first came to our shores, through no fault…


Trump’s Bid to Shield Records Rejected by Appeals Court

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday turned down a bid by former President Donald Trump to shield records from his presidency sought by a House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over the records. “On the record before us, former President Trump has…


Judge Orders Release of Jan. 6 Detainee Because of Problems at DC Jail

A Florida man accused of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol grounds was ordered released by a federal judge this week due to ongoing issues with the Washington jail that was holding him and dozens of other people who allegedly committed crimes on Jan. 6. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan nominee, ordered in a…


US Judge Holds DC Jail Officials in Contempt Over Mistreatment of Capitol Riot Defendant

A federal judge on Wednesday held top Washington jail officials in contempt, finding they violated a U.S. Capitol breach defendant’s civil rights by impeding his access to medical care. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan nominee, found Washington jail warden Wanda Patten and Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth in civil contempt in a written…