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Attorney asks court to unmask Jan. 6 footage of suspected undercover agents
2021-12-07
[Washington Examiner] An attorney to several people charged in connection to the Capitol on Jan. 6 wants the U.S. government to release videos that he says will reveal the "truth" of that day.

Joseph McBride told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday that he had filed a motion in court "asking for the unmasking of these videos."

He said the motion was "joined by The New York Times and a 16-point press conglomerate." McBride said "they signed on" because they "want to see the truth about what happened as well."

The motion was filed Dec. 1 in the Capitol riot case of Ryan Nichols , a 30-year-old former Marine from Texas who claims footage deemed sensitive by the Justice Department could exonerate him and other Jan. 6 defendants, according to the Epoch Times .

McBride and Nichols, his client, say the unreleased footage shows the activities of four suspected government agent provocateurs, whom he has nicknamed "RedFace45," "GogglesMan," "PippiLongScarf," and "BirdMan." The filing claims that among the footage is video that "shows multiple occurrences of police brutality, including a vicious beating given by a Metropolitan Police Department officer of an unarmed civilian woman."

The Washington Examiner reached out to the Justice Department for comment. Prosecutors have criticized Nichols for "casting himself as a hero who was merely fighting back against officers who were ’terrorizing’ civilians."

Posted by:Besoeker

#4  I wonder if these "agent provocateur" individuals were sworn LEOs or did they come from a more clandestine government agency, or even better, a private contractor group that has clandestine links to the Wilderness of Mirrors? Something that might prompt the answer would be the screen shot of an NCIS/SIPERNET inquiry by an investigator with SCI access? Just a thought, no basis for it beyond spitballing...
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-12-07 12:19  

#3  /\ The "fear of being cancelled" is real. Grave of Lieutenant Harry Morant. Hero's Acres, Church St. Cemetary, Pretoria, SA.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-07 08:13  

#2  These poor souls at least have one hell of a fighter as their attorney. A nice profile by NYP's Miranda Devine of of former NYC public defender Joseph McBride.

McBride is a brave man, but our legal profession generally is a disgrace:

I made my bones at Manhattan Legal Aid and the Innocence Project,” says McBride.

“None of my colleagues from those places have supported my representing [my client Richard Barnett aka] Bigo in any way. This is because … they fear being canceled by their own group more than anything.”

Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-07 07:55  

#1  
Law Enforcement Entrapment as defined by the US Occasional Justice Dept.

So IF (more likely than not) the Fed's, Congressional Police or the DC Police steered the protesters in the Federal buildings. While they were focused on protesting OUTSIDE on the Streets.
Then victims may have grounds to legally claim Entrapment.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-07 07:05  

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