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18 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Two cameras, 40 minutes.

New Capitol surveillance footage shows a breach by Jan. 6 rioters from start to finish:
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The videos show five Capitol Police officers making several attempts to halt the mob. There are tense but largely nonviolent confrontations between the crowd and the officers, who don't appear to have any special riot gear (helmets, shields, etc.) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
These videos were released in the case of defendant Ethan Nordean, who argued the footage showed officers permitting people to come in. DOJ vigorously disagreed with that, saying it showed officers outnumbered, overwhelmed, and in danger: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The final attempt by officers to block the mob ends with them walking back inside. It's not clear why they suddenly leave, there's no sound. The time stamps show that it's ~30 secs after the "shots fired" call went out, per another video prev. released
This surveillance footage is valuable because it helps us understand the full scope of what happened in a specific place — open source videos/police body cam footage is useful for lots of reasons, but the perspective can be limited and in motion buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Previously on police body camera footage showing some of the violence and verbal abuse directed at officers unfolding around the same time elsewhere around the Capitol:
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Speaking of Jan. 6 videos, @ryanjreilly had this great thread last week about the videos released in the case of Brian McCreary, incl. this one that showed the confrontation between the mob and Officer Eugene Goodman (around :53 mark)

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19 Oct
DC Circuit has upheld pretrial detention for Jan. 6 defendant Robert Gieswein, charged with deploying a chemical spray against police, among other things.

On the district judge's detention order this summer:
The DC Circuit has in most cases upheld pretrial detention for Jan. 6 defs charged with assaulting police or conspiracy after the court in the Munchel case articulated some general guidelines for how district judges should think about the issue in these cases
The notable exception was George Tanios, who was charged with conspiring with Julian Khater to assault Officer Brian Sicknick with chemical spray, but isn't accused of being the one to physically do it. Khater lost his DC Circuit challenge to detention
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19 Oct
Hello from Judge Amy Berman Jackson's virtual courtroom, where an arraignment is set to begin soon for Michael Riley, the US Capitol Police officer charged with trying to obstruct the Jan. 6 investigation.

Previously: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Riley is arraigned, enters a not guilty plea on the two-count indictment (this is standard procedure at an arraignment, it doesn't mean anything about the future of this case), now they'll move on to discussing discovery and a schedule
AUSA confirms that discovery is "not complicated or voluminous" in this case so they expect Riley's lawyer to get everything soon. Jackson asks if a plea offer has been extended so far, AUSA says no
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18 Oct
DOJ has filed its application with SCOTUS seeking to lift the 5th Circuit stay that allowed Texas's 6-week abortion ban, SB 8, to go back into effect after a district judge halted it: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…

What's likely next is we get an order with Texas's deadline to respond.
DOJ says that if SCOTUS doesn't want to deal with this on an emergency basis via the shadow docket (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…), it could alternatively consider this a cert petition and just take up the whole case on the merits this term
Recall that the abortion providers who originally brought a constitutional challenge against SB 8 have a pending petition before SCOTUS to also skip waiting for the 5th Circuit, since all signs point to that court siding with Texas
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15 Oct
New: Michael Riley, a 25-year veteran of the US Capitol Police, is facing a two-count indictment for obstructing the Jan. 6 investigation by urging an unnamed rioter to take down posts online from the day and for deleting his own Facebook messages s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2108… ImageImageImage
"Hey [Person I], im a capitol police officer who agrees with your political stance. Take down the part about being in the building they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to charged. Just looking out!"
A US Capitol Police officer has been charged with attempting to obstruct the Jan. 6 investigation by directing a rioter to delete Facebook posts and deleting his own messages. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

Michael Riley is about to make his first court appearance, stay tuned.
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13 Oct
New: Today we're publishing a two-part feature on the plea deals entered so far in the Jan. 6 prosecutions, along with a searchable database of plea documents.

Part I: 100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Part II: Reading Between The Lines Of The Capitol Riot Plea Deals buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
100 is, on the one hand, an arbitrary number — we don't know how many people will ultimately be charged.

But it's also a large enough pool to understand the deals prosecutors are offering, who is taking them, and what both sides are getting in return: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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13 Oct
Hello from Judge Trevor McFadden's virtual courtroom, where a plea hearing is about to begin for Jan. 6 def Jenny Cudd, who described her participation in a Facebook livestream that night. By my count, Cudd will be the 100th person to enter a guilty plea.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2046…
Cudd was indicted on one felony count for obstructing an official proceeding. Her co-defendant Eliel Rosa pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor and McFadden sentenced him yesterday to 12 months probation; we're waiting to learn the terms of Cudd's deal
Cudd will plead guilty to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building, a class A misdemeanor with a max sentence of 1 year in jail. The felony count for obstructing Congress will be dropped.
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