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Metropolitan Police Gave Protesters Free Access to US Capitol on Jan. 6, Court Filing States

Metropolitan Police Department officers gave protesters free access to a door on the west side of the Capitol for 12 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, after supervisors ordered them to retreat, leading one officer to remark, “I can’t believe they let them in,” a new federal court filing alleges. Defendant William Pope, 37, of Topeka, Kansas, asked U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to compel federal prosecutors to produce what he called “highly explosive and exculpatory materials” needed for his defense.
Metropolitan Police Gave Protesters Free Access to US Capitol on Jan. 6, Court Filing States
Metropolitan Police Department bodycam video shows protesters streaming into the U.S. Capitol after MPD officers were ordered to retreat from the entrance. Metropolitan Police Department via U.S. District Court
Joseph M. Hanneman
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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers gave protesters free access to a door on the west side of the U.S. Capitol for 12 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, after supervisors ordered them to retreat, leading one officer to remark, “I can’t believe they let them in,” a new federal court filing alleges.

Defendant William Pope, 37, of Topeka, Kansas, asked U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Aug. 21 to compel federal prosecutors to produce what he called “highly explosive and exculpatory materials” needed for his defense.

Joseph M. Hanneman
Joseph M. Hanneman
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Joseph M. Hanneman is a former reporter for The Epoch Times who focussed on the January 6 Capitol incursion and its aftermath, as well as general Wisconsin news. In 2022, he helped to produce "The Real Story of Jan. 6," an Epoch Times documentary about the events that day. Joe has been a journalist for nearly 40 years.
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