by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 13, 2022) — The 45-minute-long film, “J6Truth,” released last week chronicling the January 6, 2021 incursion at the U.S. Capitol, tells a different story than that of the legacy media in regard to arrests made and the deaths of four individuals occurring during the melee.
Prior to the clash between protesters and U.S. Capitol Police, then-President Donald J. Trump spoke at a rally reportedly attended by at least one million supporters, urging his audience to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” at the Capitol as Congress readied to count the electoral votes which reportedly awarded Democrat Joe Biden an overwhelming victory.
As this article goes to press, the U.S. House of Representatives “Select Committee” on January 6 is holding public hearings whose witnesses have refuted Trump’s and others’ claims of widespread, systematic voter fraud which allegedly altered the results of the election.
The committee’s stated purpose is to “Investigate January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.” The hearings, launched Thursday in a “primetime” broadcast produced by a former ABC president, come approximately one month after the release of “2000 Mules,” a film produced by the non-profit TruetheVote.org and commentator Dinesh D’Souza, alleging that cell-phone “ping” data purchased commercially and video footage obtained from local governments together demonstrate the extensive activity of “mules” who allegedly were paid to deposit multiple ballots at multiple drop boxes in the weeks leading up to the election.
D’Souza has not been asked to testify to the committee, he wrote on social media last week. “The January 6 hearings are designed to conceal the actual insurrection,” he claimed in a Sunday broadcast.
The committee contains seven Democrats and two Republicans, one of whom, Adam Kinzinger, is not seeking re-election. As the committee members were chosen last summer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rejected the Republicans who Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appointed to the committee, instead allowing Kinzinger and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who is facing a primary challenge for the state’s only House seat in August.
Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4), one of those McCarthy appointed said the committee is illegitimate for that reason and others.
“J6Truth” contains what is alleged to be footage of clashes between protesters and U.S. Capitol police on January 6, 2021, both outside and inside the Capitol, and suggests access to the Capitol was facilitated by a minimal police presence; the urging of an attendee, Ray Epps, who reportedly has not been questioned by investigators; the opening of doors which would normally have remained locked and the removal of outside barriers.
Narrating the documentary is Edward Jacob (“Jake”) Lang, a 27-year-old “J6” prisoner whose attorney, Steve Metcalf, is featured several times and contends his client and others are the recipients of unequal justice as compared to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other activists’ destruction of private businesses, police cars, and public property as well as murder over the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd.
Lang and others appearing in the footage claim that 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland of Georgia was killed by blunt force delivered by a U.S. Capitol police officer, contradicting media reports that Boyland died of a drug overdose, citing the “D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office”; “medical emergency” or from having been trampled.
As illuminated by Gateway Pundit journalist Cara Castronuova (10:21), in his narration Lang described attempting to save Boyland’s life as she was struck repeatedly by an officer with a nightstick and surrounded by a press of people. “…We have thousands of people who witnessed Rosanne Boyland’s death, [a] 34-year-old woman from Georgia. She died at the hands of Capitol Police; they pummeled her over onto the ground; they caused a stampede in which she got ran over and pepper-sprayed her while she was down; they put noxious tear gas in the atmosphere; she couldn’t breathe, and she ended up dying in my arms, and may God rest her soul,” Lang said as footage of the conflict played.
Following that, protester Phillip Anderson said Lang saved his life after he was pushed to the ground and nearly trampled to death amid actions of police brutality. “They pushed more and more people on top of us,” Anderson said in the background of the video. “They were beating and beating and beating.”
“Everything they said about Rosanne Boyland from the very beginning is a lie,” Anderson told “War Room” host Steve Bannon. “They straight-up killed her; it was murder, and I was holding her hand as she died, and everything she felt, I felt as well, ’cause I was right there next to her at the bottom of the pile holding her hand.”
“…when Rosanne Boyland is lying there on the ground, dying…a Capitol Police officer beats her over the head with a baton,” Anderson told Bannon.
Disturbing footage at 21:20 shows officers bringing a person to the ground and a single officer beating him repeatedly.
Rather than “cardiac arrest,” the film claims that, rather than “medical emergencies,” three other J6 decedents were killed as a result of “flash-bangs” thrown by Capitol Police, the deployment of which was corroborated independently by journalist Julie Kelly and the National File.
Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was admittedly killed by U.S. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd in what the documentary claims was an unnecessary use of force against an unarmed woman who posed no threat. Additional video of Babbitt’s killing is presented at the 17:55 mark in a Friday broadcast by former Trump personal attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Warning: footage is graphic and disturbing).
The film includes Trump’s address given prior to the Capitol protest and several media interviews occurring much later in which he voiced objections to the treatment of J6 prisoners and support for presidential pardons for them. “It’s a very unfair situation,” Trump said. Also featured is defendants’ Attorney Joseph McBride and footage in which “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson questioned the government narrative on the events of that day.
In November, Carlson released his own film contradicting the government’s narrative, available through the subscription platform “Fox Nation.”
The FBI has made hundreds of arrests in connection with January 6 and maintains a list of updates as to those arrested and convicted of committing violations that day.
“We protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution,” the FBI states on its website.