Video obtained by The Epoch Times sheds new light on key details relating to the DNC pipe bomb on Jan. 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON—Two key U.S. Capitol Police security cameras that were pointed at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) offices during the Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bomb incident were remotely redirected by police and didn’t record or broadcast critical portions of the police response, The Epoch Times has learned.
A review of yet-unreleased security video footage by The Epoch Times shows Capitol Police Camera 3173—located directly across the street from where the DNC bomb sat—was remotely directed away from the scene at 1:29 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, before the bomb squad arrived.
The Epoch Times discovered that Camera 8020—located high on the nearby Fairchild Building—had been zoomed in showing the bomb squad assembling along E Street Southeast, until the Capitol Police Command Center redirected the camera at 1:44 p.m., just as a bomb robot begins traveling toward the DNC.
A source familiar with the U.S. Capitol Police camera system and response procedures told The Epoch Times that the redirection of key cameras during that type of active event is “really odd.”
For the rest of the day, Camera 3173 pointed at a small park area on South Capitol Street Southeast. For the next 2 1/2 hours, Camera 8020 pointed at distant railroad tracks and a highway overpass.
The Epoch Times’ video review revealed that none of the Capitol Police security cameras that cover the DNC show the Secret Service conducting a security sweep of the property just before 11:25 a.m., in preparation for a visit by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. A dog and its handler were seen on video two hours earlier searching the same area in which the bomb was later found.
Capitol Police video also doesn’t show the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb by an undercover police officer at 1:05 p.m. that day.
When Ms. Harris’s entourage arrived at the DNC at 11:25 a.m., two agents stood in the street surveying the scene as three black SUVs pulled into the garage, video footage shows. After the motorcade is safely inside, four agents are seen on the driveway as a Secret Service SUV and a Metropolitan Police Department squad vehicle back into the driveway.
