Undercover Video Captured 40 Munition Blasts in Jan. 6 Crowds at US Capitol

A Metropolitan Police Department officer's camera captured at least 40 munitions deployments into the crowds at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshots and Graphic by The Epoch Times)

A Metropolitan Police Department undercover officer’s camera captured at least 40 explosive munitions used on the crowd in less than an hour on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In the second undercover video to surface on the internet in two weeks, the officer watched the west front crowd from the southwest steps, behind the long police line.

During the nearly 54-minute video, the officer made two references to Antifa that suggest he has worked undercover posing as an Antifa activist.

An undercover Metropolitan Police Department officer wearing a black face gaiter documented the crowds on the Capitol's west front on Jan. 6, 2021. (Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

At the 2-minute, 25-second mark of the video, the undercover officer stopped to help a uniformed officer who had been hit with pepper spray. He poured a solution on the man’s eyes.

“What’s in it?” the uniformed officer asked.

“Baking soda and milk,” the undercover agent replied, then added, “When we go undercover as Antifa in the crowd.”

The man’s camera briefly captured his gold MPD badge, attached to a pull chain around his neck. The badge number was briefly visible as the badge swung back and forth.

A few minutes earlier, he asked someone off-camera about their duty assignment.

“Why are we here?” he asked. “Shouldn’t we be in the crowd?”

About a half hour later, after helping another incapacitated officer with the baking soda solution, he said: “Did that stuff help you? I used that up with Antifa. They actually gave it to me.”

For some 48 minutes of the video, the camera is trained on the massive crowd that gathered on the west front.

At about the 11-minute mark, a crowd-control munition was set off, the first of 19 explosions recorded over the next 6 minutes.

After a 7-minute hiatus, the munitions resumed. The camera recorded another 21 explosions over 27 minutes.

The officer was likely a member of the MPD Electronic Surveillance Unit, which had 28 officers on duty on Jan. 6.

Two members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Electronic Surveillance Unit approach the northwest side of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

In another undercover video leaked on the social media channel Rumble, three MPD undercover officers were observed acting as provocateurs on and near the Capitol’s exterior northwest steps.

Defendant William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, petitioned U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to remove the court seal so that the undercover video can be shared publicly. A hearing on the issue is set for April 13.