Posted on 03/27/2023 7:20:51 AM PDT by Twotone
A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal.
Prosecutors accused the case defendant—William Pope of Topeka, Kansas—of an “illegitimate” attempt to unmask the video as part of his alleged strategy to try the case in the news media. Pope filed a motion to remove the court seal on Feb. 21.
“The defendant is not entitled to ‘undesignate’ these videos to share them with unlimited third parties,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Moran. “His desire to try his case in the media rather than in a court of law is illegitimate, and the government has met its burden to show the necessity of the protective order.”
Videos long hidden under court seal have become a major topic, especially with prosecutors disclosing in a number of high-profile Jan. 6 cases the involvement of multiple FBI informants.
Pope is seeking to lift the court seal on the undercover video as part of his drive to obtain full access to video evidence held by the government. Pope is representing himself in the criminal case being prosecuted against him. At a hearing on March 3, Judge Contreras seemed sympathetic to Pope’s motion to unmask the videos.
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undercover officers acted as provocateurs .................that should cause all cases to be dismissed.......................
My Lord, this should be game, set and match.
Entrapment.
Which is called entrapment.
Apparently video showing police behaving badly is cause to have the video suppressed—just because.
The lawsuit by police/sheriff deputies against the rapper who dared show them disconnecting his security cameras during a raid on his home, claiming it ‘invaded their privacy’ and held them up for ridicule comes to mind.
White blood cells are suppose to go after infections. When white blood cells go after it’s own host’s body it’s called autoimmune disease, similar to the way someone with a personality disorder is at war with themself. Our tolerance of marxism gave America AIDS. The patient refused to “drain” the infection and chose to live with the illness.
BS! These were not "DC Metropolitican Police." DC beat cops do and their bosses are like any other city police. They are not making national political decisions and schemes to embarrass Trump. Even their ultimate boss, the DC Mayor, would not do such, certainly not on her own.
Instigation was going going on, but they were not "DC Cops."
Provocation is permission.
Exculpatory evidence is allowed to be presented to the jury publicly - having secret trials doesn't really cut it. This really isn't that hard
Does this mean that the guards in the DC jails could be dragged into it as ‘players’ in the ‘insurrection’? Maybe if we push this point we can get better treatment for the J6 Patriots.
This is much worse than entrapment. Entrapment is where you temp someone to do something illegal.
By egging them to enter the Capitol , the police literally gave these defendants permission to enter the capitol, which made their entrance legal.
If only the Republicans were in charge of the House, the public could gain access to those recordings.
Lawsuits in the tens of millions. Come get your bag.
GREAT ANALOGY !
Even Mona Lisa Vito of My Cousin Vinny new about disclosure. And she was an automotive expert not a lawyer. But I guess that whole due process thing has gone out of fashion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaoymfY9Kw0
Lemon Poundcake!
Liberal thugs in ‘intelligent’ and the capitol police department felt it was OK to encourage violence because they hate half the American people - the half that self identifies as ‘conservative’.
If undercover thugs/intelligence had done the same at a gay pride event - encouraged violence - and were ‘outed’ I’m sure the press bimbos and pretentious ‘men’ of the New York Times and Washington Post would have ignored the story for over two years too.
J6 Reichstag Fire - bump for later....
acted as provocateurs
BS!
These were not “DC Metropolitican Police.”
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Really ?
Who were they , imposters ?
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They are not making national political decisions
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No one said they made the decisions, nice spin pivot though.
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Instigation was going going on,
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Thought you just claimed there wasn’t.
“””acted as provocateurs BS! “”””
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but they were not “DC Cops.”
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So tell me ,
these provocuters/not provocuters
Who were they ?
Trump supporters dressed in D.C. cop gear ?
gone in noticed by the real D.C.force ?
Pretty weak sauce you got there.
Lame, pathetic even.
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