Police Beating of Unconscious Trump Supporter Was ‘Objectively Reasonable,’ Department Rules

Internal Affairs Bureau conducted probe in response to a police-brutality complaint

Justin Winchell (in the teal jacket at right) reacts to a Metropolitan Police Department officer striking his unconscious friend, Rosanne Boyland. Body cam/U.S. Department of Justice

The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was deemed to be “objectively reasonable” after an investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, The Epoch Times has learned.

The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021, based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and a large wooden stick at the entrance to the West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol.