Veteran use-of-force expert Stephen Hill, a former SWAT team supervisor with the Albuquerque Police Department, warns that police launched a “terrorist attack” against a crowd of peaceful protesters during the J6 Stop the Steal rally when they fired a concussion grenade that injured at least 1000 people. One man on fire.
Hill, an investigator for J6Truth, has examined more than 1,000 hours of J6 footage over the past two years and has stood in three J6 trials as an expert witness while assisting defense attorneys including those representing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in gathering exculpatory evidence. .
J6 Truth's team of investigators, including Hill and this reporter, identified at least a dozen instances of police blatantly violating the law during the January 6 protests.
In footage captured from a protester's camera in the West Plaza of the US Capitol at 1:24 p.m., police are seen firing a “sting grenade” into a peaceful crowd that set at least one man on fire, an illegal deviation from… Standard operating parameters. actions and in violation of all laws of the District of Columbia.
“You see a sting grenade being thrown by officers with their hands into a crowd of unsuspecting peaceful protesters who are at least 30 to 50 feet behind the front line of protesters,” Hill highlights in a two-minute video of the explosion.
“As you watch where the grenade lands, you see this group of people — some praying, talking to others, taking cell phone video looking away from the officers, unaware of what the Capitol officers are doing,” he continues. . “A riot control weapon is a rubber grenade that uses a small charge that splits a ball in half and releases tear gas, rubber balls, or both.”
District of Columbia law and standard operating procedures require police to issue dispersal orders and a clear warning, at least three times, to the crowd asking them to leave before attempting to arrest, use force, or deploy munitions.
“The U.S. Capitol Police used less-lethal munitions on a crowd of people who were not told their actions were illegal and were not asked to leave the area. When D.C. police arrived minutes later, they also began deploying munitions on a crowd of people who had not been warned,” Hill explains. Standard operating procedures for police agencies and Washington, D.C., ordinances require First Amendment protesters to be warned at least three times using a public address system that the crowd will hear.
“The US Capitol has a massive public address system that transmits directions across the entire Capitol area, but they chose not to use it. This is just one of many illegally deployed grenades that were sent into the peaceful crowds that day without any warning.” , which resulted in the injury of a number of demonstrators. [including] Setting one man on fire. “This is an unlawful and excessive use of force.”
He watches:
the police Diffuse grenades – pull the pin and throw it into the crowd –And it was definitely Peaceful crowd. There was no reason for them to do that.” Hill said TGP In an exclusive interview. They were thrown into the most peaceful part of this crowd. And This is criminal.
A majority of the American people believe the government and the prevailing narrative about the January 6 “insurrection.”
According to a recent Washington Post and University of Maryland poll conducted in December, 55% of voters said the January 6 Capitol riot was an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten. “A lot of this has been done and they think it's time to move on,” said 43% (43%). 86% of Democratic voters, the same majority that supported efforts to defund the police, said the attack should never be forgotten, while 72% of Republican voters said it was time to turn the page.
But an examination of the footage revealing what actually happened on that fateful day indisputably shows that law enforcement officials themselves escalated the protest into an insurrection, while the trumped-up charges and prosecutions of the J6 defendants are an ongoing “terrorist attack” against the American people. Hill confirms.
“Most of these charges brought by the Department of Justice against the defendants on January 6 would be, at most, misdemeanors in the real world. But not in the D.C. world, where they are trying to go after Trump. So, this has to be worse than 911 and Pearl Harbor combined.” The government claims that January 6 was an “insurrection,” but 99 percent of the protesters were unarmed. They came to demonstrate, and that is their First Amendment right. Many of these people were prompted to their actions by the actions of the police.
“It was a horrific event. There was a lot of abuse of force and illegal use of force by officers, which led to the beginning of a terrorist event. But the real terrorist event began when our government started going after these people and charging them with crimes they couldn't commit or charging them with crimes beyond With many minor misdemeanors they could have been charged.
“Instead, they charged them with 10 criminal counts, and I know The purpose behind this is to alert people like you and me that the government could walk away from us at any moment, and that we need to “keep our mouths shut and sit in our corner and not question what our government is doing.” 'And he is absolute farce “We have allowed our government to be so corrupt.”
J6 was founded by political prisoner Jake Lange J6 truth And Shepherd J6 During his imprisonment. Lang also hosts a weekly podcast on TGP in which he unabashedly calls attention to DOJ wrongdoing.
At around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, prison guards suddenly pulled Lange and J6 prisoner Ryan Samsel from their cells and informed them they would be taken to an undisclosed location.
Missing: J6 political hostages Ryan Samsel and Jake Lange moved in the middle of the night from the pit in the capital's labor camps to an unknown location
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed on Wednesday that Lange and Samsel are currently being held at the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg. Lange's family members said TGP The two inmates are still in transit and are being denied contact until they are housed in another facility, which could take “days, weeks or months.”
“I'm very concerned about the safety of Ryan and Jake,” Hill said. “For them to be so She bursts out of the prison cell and disappears like that It seems like an old Soviet trick where they want to get rid of people who have been a thorn in the side of the administration. That's what worries me the most is that they will end up disappearing and getting infected or that we will lose them from the face of the Earth.
“If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have said this would never happen in this country. But these days, I don't know. It makes you wonder.”