(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Washington D.C. Police Department has confirmed to Congress that some of their officers were at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 protest, presenting themselves as civilians and exhorting the crowd.
According to Just the News, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said that the police body cam video that was leaked on the video platform Rumble is authentic and confirms that officers in plainclothes were at the protest.
“We know that it is one of their officers and at one point he is encouraging… he’s definitely helping people climb the scaffolding, and he’s telling them [to] ‘go, go, go,’” Loudermilk said.
After that, he started asking questions regarding the video.
“Why is an officer encouraging people to climb the scaffolding and go into the Capitol? And secondly, why did the MPD Metropolitan Police support department decide to put undercover officers in the crowd?” he said.
“Was there intelligence that they had that was or was not passed on to the Capitol Police and what did the Capitol police do with that evidence, if they got it?”
Loudermilk wrote a letter to the MPD police chief on May 16 requesting additional information about the officers that were present. Among the requested information was the original body cam footage from all officers that were on-site at the Capitol that day and “all officer and department after action reports and after incident reports concerning the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Additionally, Loudermilk requested “a list identifying all MPD officers on duty on January 6, 2021, who were engaged in activities concerning the restoration of civil order at or concerning the U.S. Capitol Complex, including their unit and any information on their assignment, and whether they were in uniform or plain clothes in their role as a law enforcement officer on January 6, 2021.”
