{"id":1870970,"date":"2023-03-07T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:24:37","slug":"capitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police Chief Responds To Tucker Carlson\u2019s Airing Of January 6 Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fcapitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage%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=1870970&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--><p> Following Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s appearance, U.S. Capitol Police chief sent an email to his employees Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aired dramatic, previously unseen<\/a> Security footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/january-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6<\/a> This showed that police officers appeared to be passively watching as crowds poured into Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Manger, Chief of Police, criticized the comments on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; Which he stated was &#8220;filled with offensive and misleading conclusions&#8221; On January 6, 2021, a crowd of people entered U.S. Capitol and disrupted lawmakers who were attempting to verify President Joe Biden&#8217;s win in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video,&#8221; Manger said. &#8220;The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW \u2013 Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger sends internal memo this am saying Carlson&#8217;s report was &#8220;filled with offensive and misleading conclusions&#8221; About Jan. 6, and the &#8220;opinion program&#8221; Never reached out to the right context. Notification w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelvscott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rachelvscott<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BrnD0n4IN1\">pic.twitter.com\/BrnD0n4IN1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KFaulders\/status\/1633156537253240832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manger was particularly upset by a segment that showed what appeared to be Capitol Police officers accompanying Jacob Chansley. This is known as the &#8220;QAnon Shaman,&#8221; Throughout the entire building &#8220;tour guides&#8221; Carlson described them exactly as they are. Carlson was particularly focused on Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick who, a medical examiner determined, had suffered a stroke. Sicknick died from natural causes one day after he protected the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that Sicknick died from a beating with a fire extinguisher in the riot. However, it was only five weeks later. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/new-york-times-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later retracted the story<\/a> It was revealed that he had died from natural causes the day after it was discovered. The police and his family believe that he died from injuries sustained during the riot.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Capitol building, Sicknick appears to be directing people. &#8220;he was supposedly murdered outside,&#8221; Carlson stated, &#8220;overturns the single-most powerful and politically useful lie the Democrats have told us about January 6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manger said that Capitol Police was the one responsible. &#8220;maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a deal with Kevin McCarthy (Republican), Carlson was granted access to over 40,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This tape was not wanted by any Washingtonian, Republican or Democrat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YfpvaIZTbn\">pic.twitter.com\/YfpvaIZTbn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1632953663822913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tucker-carlsons-use-of-january-6-tapes-is-limited-republican-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters<\/a> He wanted to combat the &#8220;politicization&#8221; He believed that he was being encouraged by Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker (D-CA), and the January 6, Committee which focused on ex-President Donald Trump as part of its final investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, as well as some Republicans including Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R\u2013KY), have criticized the arrangement. &#8220;It was a mistake in my view for Fox News to depict this in a way that is completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/03\/07\/mitch-mcconnell-tucker-carlson-jan\/11420330002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McConnell said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson did not show any familiar images Monday of police officers breaking windows or people fighting with them, but said that he only had a few examples. &#8220;small percentage&#8221; The large crowd was &#8220;hooligans.&#8221; He shared video footage of people that the host said clearly showed how large majority were &#8220;peaceful,&#8221; &#8220;orderly,&#8221;  &#8220;meek.&#8221; These &#8220;sightseers,&#8221; Carlson said they appeared to venerate the U.S. Capitol and filed in in an orderly manner. They were also present in concern about fraud during the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Capitol Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/07\/politics\/capitol-police-injuries\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 100 officers<\/a> No injuries were reported after January 6. Although the Capitol was defended by four officers on January 6, there were no injuries to those who were present. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/02\/3rd-police-officer-gunther-hashida-kills-himself-after-capitol-riot-by-trump-mob.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later committed suicide<\/a>Only those who were part the crowd could participate in it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died there<\/a> Ashley Babbitt and a Capitol Police officer were among those who died on the morning of the breach.<\/p>\n<p>Manger, in his memo thanked the Capitol Police officers for their help on January 6. &#8220;You fought like hell on January 6 and risked your lives to protect the Constitution and everything this country stands for,&#8221; He wrote. &#8220;You, along with our law enforcement partners, saved every member of Congress and their staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/capitol-police-chief-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-airing-of-january-6-footage\">Capitol Police Chief Responds To Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Airing Of January 6 Footage<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s appearance, U.S. Capitol Police chief sent an email to his employees Tuesday. aired dramatic, previously unseen Security footage January 6 This showed that police officers appeared to be passively watching as crowds poured into Capitol. Tom Manger, Chief of Police, criticized the comments on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; Which he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1891036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8476,4172,10433,5772,5254,3780,3967,4499,3748],"class_list":["post-1870970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-airing","tag-capitol","tag-carlsons","tag-chief","tag-footage","tag-january","tag-police","tag-responds","tag-tucker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870970","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}