January 6th – The Real Story

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The events of jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol have been called an “insurrection.” But is that really
what happened? The Epoch Times spent a year investigating what took place that day. The result is this special report that takes a deep dive into the issues. It reveals new details and analyses on the deaths of
two of the four Trump supporters who died that day: Rosanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt. Exclusive bodycam footage obtained by The Epoch Times reveals a D.C. Metro Police officer striking Boyland with a wooden stick multiple times as she lay on the ground unconscious and bystanders pleaded for her life, fearing she was suffocating. FBI documents obtained by The Epoch Times shed more light on Ray Epps, one of the individuals who has received the most attention following Jan. 6. One of the documents revealed that Epps was concerned
about a potential explosion near the Capitol that day. The aggressive posture of the DOJ in prosecuting Jan.
6 cases—even of those who committed no violence and were waved into the Capitol by police—has had a far-reaching impact. This special report includes several accounts of how lives have been changed, including that of Matthew Perna, who committed suicide at 37 due to the pressure placed on him. Meanwhile, so-called suspicious actors—those who committed violence that day but have not been indicted, identified, or in many cases even put on the wanted list—continue to raise questions. Exclusive footage obtained by The Epoch Times shows how one suspicious individual broke a window at the Capitol and encouraged others to commit vandalism
and go inside. That individual remains unindicted and hasn’t been placed on a wanted list. 

Ashli babbitt, the 35-yearold Air Force veteran who was fatally shot outside the U.S. Capitol Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021, was “murdered… under the color of authority,” a use-of-force expert has concluded after
reviewing video footage of the incident. Just before 2:45 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, Babbitt began climbing through a side window leading into the Speaker’s Lobby and was shot in the left anterior shoulder by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. She was pronounced dead a half-hour later at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Stan Kephart, who has testified in court more than 350 times as an expert witness on policing issues, reviewed the shooting for the EpochTV documentary “The Real Story of Jan. 6.” “My conclusion … based on what I saw and observed in the video clips, is that Ashli Babbitt was murdered,” said Kephart, a 42-year veteran of law enforcement and former director of security for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. He has testified on topics that include excessive force, police discipline, officer safety, and crowd control. “She was shot and killed under color of authority by an officer who violated not only the law but his oath, and committed an arrestable offense.”Kephart said he saw nothing in the video evidence to indicate that Byrd should have felt his life was in danger or that he was at risk of serious harm from the 5-foot-2, 110-pound San Diego woman wrapped in a Trump flag. “In order for lethal force to be authorized, the officer has to be able to articulate that he or she was in fear of losing his life, was about to be killed, or grievously
injured,” Kephart says in the documentary. “There is nothing I saw in that film that would indicate that was possible or probable from what unfolded.” Byrd’s attorney, Mark Schamel, called Kephart’s conclusion“unsupported and erroneous” and said Byrd was justified in his use of force.

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