Officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide just days after the Capitol attack. Now, thanks to his body camera video, we know much more about all that he went through on Jan. 6. Watch: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
A D.C. resident was stressed after the Jan. 6 attack, so she visited her chiropractor a few blocks from the Capitol. Here’s what happened next: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Hours after the initial melee inside the Capitol building involving the Capitol Hill chiropractor, Officer Jeffrey Smith was struck by a metal pole outside the Capitol. Here’s the view from his body camera just after that attack: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
If you look closely at this video released this week, you’ll see the Capitol Hill chiropractor in the mob as they bum-rush the door. Look just above the shattered window on the right:
Seconds after a member of the mob tosses an officer to the ground, the D.C. chiropractor breaches the Capitol building with a hoodie over his head:
Turns out “on the Capitol steps” wasn’t quite the whole story.
Quite an omniscient transition, in hindsight!
“We were literally in the halls of the Capitol pushing people out,” Jeffrey reportedly texted the friend. “It was like a movie.” huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
“He didn’t know the layout of the Capitol. The last time he was in the Capitol was when he was 10 years old. He didn’t know if he was going to get out alive.” huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Watch some of what the late Officer Jeffrey Smith experienced on Jan. 6.
Smith’s widow was stonewalled for months, but the estate finally pried the video free thanks to a civil suit filed against two of the conspiracy theorists who stormed the Capitol:
There’s really zero doubt that David Walls-Kaufman stormed the Capitol. He hasn’t even really disputed it, because that would be absurd. The only real questions are whether he catches felonies and whether he’s specifically charged with assault. huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
John Strand and Simone Gold, who breached the Capitol building through the east rotunda doors at the same moment as David Walls-Kaufman, have both been indicted for obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting.
From a source: Here’s video of David Walls-Kaufman watching the windows get smashed shortly before he breached the Capitol with the surging mob.
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"there really is no centralized role in this for Defense or the Federal government components. This sits squarely in MPD's realm. I'm trying to tamp this down with the Deputy like I have the last couple of protests but this one may be different..."
From the latest batch of FBI emails on Jan. 6:
"It's her very first day in this position. He didn't tell her what the document was, or who wrote it, unfortunately and then went back to the 7th floor for more meetings..."
The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter.
Jay Johnston’s sentencing hearing in DC is set for Oct. 7, not long before his Mr. Show colleague David Cross appears in DC at the Warner Theater for his “The End Of The Beginning Of The End” show.
THREAD: Over two years ago, a Jan. 6 defendant told a court that he'd witnessed Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes (now serving an 18 year seditious conspiracy sentence) that he'd witnessed Rhodes try to contact Donald Trump during the Capitol attack.
That Jan. 6 defendant, William Todd Wilson, admitted that he heard Rhodes “repeatedly implore" an unidentified party he was speaking with "to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose a transfer of power." nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Rhodes himself was convicted at trial and, in May 2023, sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. But that phone call wasn't a focus for prosecutors.
The only man known to have participated in both the News Fight in Anchorman (2004) and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (2021) plans to plead guilty on July 8, per court docket.
He doesn’t count for any “law enforcement officers who stormed the Capitol” stats, but he’s certainly played a cop a bunch! nbcnews.com/politics/justi…