{"id":1517685,"date":"2022-06-15T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517685"},"modified":"2022-06-15T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:49:11","slug":"police-chief-rejects-conspiracy-theory-about-gop-rep-helping-rioters-recon-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-chief-rejects-conspiracy-theory-about-gop-rep-helping-rioters-recon-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Chief Rejects Conspiracy Theory About GOP Rep Helping Rioters Recon Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-chief-rejects-conspiracy-theory-about-gop-rep-helping-rioters-recon-capitol%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Capitol police chief rejected the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s allegations that Republican Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk gave a tour to individuals who breached the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Police Board asked the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) to review footage released by the Jan. 6 committee from Jan. 5, 2021, which alleged that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/republicans-rodney-davis-loudermilk-steil-nancy-pelosi-metal-detector-fines-letter-sergeant-arms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loudermilk<\/a> led a tour to a group of over a dozen of his constituents into the Capitol building, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/67fba463240fdd948eb636b35\/files\/9c9ae731-1206-be0d-9b80-a32df612e029\/220807_U._S._Capitol_Police_Response_to_RM_Davis_re_Jan_5_2021_Tour_21_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Police J. Thomas Manger confirmed to Committee of House Administration ranking member Rodney Davis in the Wednesday letter that there is no evidence Loudermilk entered the Capitol with the group of constituents that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,\u201d the letter read. \u201cWe train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">and a small group visiting their congressman is in no way a suspicious activity. Now the Capitol Police have confirmed this fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLoudermilk\/status\/1536680393126162434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Jan. 6 committee released surveillance footage of Loudermilk giving a tour of parts of the building to a group of tourists, who photographed hallways, staircases and security checkpoints. The committee said one individual who attended the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally attended the tour with the Georgia representative.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals on the tour photographed\/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rjhf2BTdbc\">pic.twitter.com\/Rjhf2BTdbc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/January6thCmte\/status\/1537075019918065666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group, composed of 15 people, entered buildings consisting of lawmakers\u2019 offices, first entering the Rayburn House Office Building before moving to the Cannon House Office Building, which has a series of exhibits, according to the letter. After spending roughly five minutes at the exhibit in the Cannon building, Loudermilk departed from the group and exited the Longworth South Capitol Street Door alone, the letter said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/democrats-new-york-times-jan-6-hearings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no time did the group appear in any tunnels that would have led them to the U.S. Capitol,\u201d the letter said. \u201cIn addition, the tunnels leading to the U.S. Capitol were posted with USCP officers and admittance to the U.S. Capitol without a Member of Congress was not permitted on January 5, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Mississippi <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/bennie-thompson-invokes-kkk-slavery-lynching-january-6-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rep. Bennie Thompson<\/a>, the House Select Committee chairman, sent a letter to Loudermilk on Wednesday urging him to meet with the committee to give answers to the committee on the footage. In response, Loudermilk said Thompson\u2019s request is \u201cundermining the Capitol Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Capitol Police already put this false accusation to bed, yet the Committee is undermining the Capitol Police and doubling down on their smear campaign, releasing so-called evidence of a tour of the House Office Buildings, which I have already publicly addressed,\u201d Loudermilk said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLoudermilk\/status\/1537109015037083649?s=20&#038;t=WxJNk8w2hxlKvl2mWHt3zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">[1\/5] The Capitol Police already put this false accusation to bed, yet the Committee is undermining the Capitol Police and doubling down on their smear campaign, releasing so-called evidence of a tour of the House Office Buildings, which I have already publicly addressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yqIpQ6jSG9\">https:\/\/t.co\/yqIpQ6jSG9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLoudermilk\/status\/1537109015037083649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The committee first contacted Loudermilk last month about the footage in a May 19 letter, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/19\/politics\/barry-loudermilk-capitol-tour-january-6\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The members indicated that evidence contradicted Republicans\u2019 previous claims that there were no tours or large groups of people with MAGA hats on. Days following the riot, Democrats accused Republicans of giving tours to those who later breached the building.<\/p>\n<p>He told a local Georgia radio station in January 2021 that nearly a dozen of his constituents traveled to Washington to attend the rally the next day, assuring that they departed from the crowd once violence broke out, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/15\/politics\/barry-loudermilk-tour-january-6\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capitol police chief rejected the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s allegations that Republican Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk gave a tour to individuals who breached the Capitol.The Capitol Police Board asked the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}