Fox News host Tucker Carlson released new surveillance footage from the January 6 riot that appears to show two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” throughout the building.
Carlson released the footage after being given exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to 40,000 hours of video from that day. “Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,” Carlson said during the segment. “The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”
“Not one of them even tried to slow him down,” Carlson continued, before suggesting that Chansley “understood that the Capitol police were his allies.”
“If he was in the act of committing such a grave crime, why didn’t the officers standing right next to him place him under arrest?” Carlson asked.
Tucker Carlson releases footage claiming that the QAnon Shaman was escorted by police throughout the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riot.
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