{"id":2409605,"date":"2025-03-04T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-wants-1-5-million-for-jan-6-police-bodycam-videos-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:58:35","slug":"dc-wants-1-5-million-for-jan-6-police-bodycam-videos-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-wants-1-5-million-for-jan-6-police-bodycam-videos-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DC wants $1.5 million for Jan. 6 police bodycam videos &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdc-wants-1-5-million-for-jan-6-police-bodycam-videos-washington-examiner%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=2409605&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>there has been important discussion regarding the release\u200c of\u2062 body camera footage from the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, particularly involving the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)\u2064 of Washington, D.C. The \u200dcity has set a ample fee of\u200b $1.5 million for producing and editing these videos, \u200dwhich amounts \u200bto\u200b approximately $25 per minute for about\u200c 1,047 hours of footage. This cost\u2062 is viewed by Judicial Watch, \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-diversity-law-requiring-people-of-color-or-lgbt-community-members-on-corporate-boards-ruled-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"California Diversity Law Requiring \u201cPeople of Color\u201d or \u201cLGBT Community Members\u201d on Corporate Boards Ruled Unconstitutional\">conservative legal watchdog organization<\/a>,\u2063 as excessive and akin\u200c to a ransom demand \u200cto obtain public records.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial \u200bWatch initially sought footage specifically from\u2064 Officer \u2063Michael \u200dFanone&#8217;s camera \u2063but later expanded its request to \u200binclude all related footage from the day. \u200dThe city claims that the release of these\u200d videos \u200dis intricate\u200c by privacy concerns, as \u2063they may reveal personal \u200dinformation about individuals\u200b captured in the \u200cfootage. City \u2064lawyers stated that editing for privacy\u2064 would necessitate hiring a vendor, thus\u200b incurring\u200b further costs.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial watch&#8217;s \u2062President, Tom Fitton, criticized the city&#8217;s stance, suggesting that \u200bthere has never been\u200d a valid reason to withhold the\u200c footage and implying that its release is\u2064 being \u200bobstructed for political \u2062reasons. He emphasized the importance of transparency regarding the events of\u2063 January 6 and questioned the legitimacy of the city&#8217;s claims about editing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the D.C. \u2063police had refrained from releasing videos, citing ongoing Department of Justice \u200binvestigations. Though,the current\u200c situation has raised questions\u2064 about access to public\u200b records and\u200b the accountability of \u200claw enforcement agencies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DC wants $1.5 million for Jan. 6 police bodycam videos<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1941241\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>In what amounts to a ransom demand, Washington, D.C., has set a price of over $1.5 million to release body camera videos from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to a legal watchdog group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/judicial-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Judicial Watch<\/a> today told Secrets that the District lawyers said that there are over 1,756 Metropolitan Police Department videos covering 1,047 hours and that it wants $25 per minute to edit and produce the videos from body cameras worn by the city police during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3326249\/january-6-defendants-granted-trump-clemency-push-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">daylong riot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the conservative legal group, that amounts to a bill of $1,570,635.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Jw v Dc j6 Bodycam Msj 003453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/835388487\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-poXQfQBJB8uyyE2a8aJN\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_23774\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There never has been a legitimate reason to withhold the January 6 police body cam videos,&rdquo; said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. &ldquo;If they wanted the videos out for political reasons, they&rsquo;d be public, but instead the D.C. government wants more than $1.5 million in order for the public to view its January 6 videos,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pardoning of all of the Jan. 6 suspects and convicts, the police said that they couldn&rsquo;t release the videos to the public because they were part of hundreds of Department of Justice investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Now the police said that editing out personal information is just too expensive to hand over the videos for free.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The District reiterates that the [body work camera] footage may capture certain personnel, namely third parties, who <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">maintain cognizable privacy interests<\/a> in their names, images, and likenesses, and disclosure of these people&rsquo;s identities would not serve the public interest nor shed light on MPD&rsquo;s performance of its statutory duties,&rdquo; said city lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Teresa Quon Hyden, assistant general counsel at MPD, has calculated the total hours of responsive footage as 1,047.09 and has estimated that the cost of redacting these videos would be at least $25 per minute of footage. MPD would have to locate a vendor to implement these redactions, and it is unclear whether the District would need to accept bids from multiple vendors on such a large undertaking,&rdquo; added the city&rsquo;s filing.<\/p>\n<p>The city&rsquo;s lawyers have asked Judicial Watch to seek less footage and to provide help in paying for edited video that is turned over.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealDonaldTrump<\/a> DOJ signals settlement in $30M Ashli Babbitt &lsquo;wrongful death&rsquo; suit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y3el4xMzNb\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y3el4xMzNb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Aq0GxaxT3\">https:\/\/t.co\/3Aq0GxaxT3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomFitton\/status\/1896653405831270652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>More than any other independent watchdog, Judicial Watch has pressed for full transparency in Jan. 6 cases. In this one, it initially filed for the body camera footage worn by Officer Michael Fanone, one of the first responders who was attacked by rioters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch later expanded the demand to all footage of the day held by city police.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3335232\/justice-signals-settlement-30m-ashli-babbitt-wrongful-death-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Secrets reported<\/a> that Judicial Watch scored a possible win in its $30 million wrongful death lawsuit in the U.S. Capitol Police killing of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. In a turnabout, the Justice Department said it would seek to negotiate a settlement in the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1941241\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1941241\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC demands $1.5 million for Jan. 6 police bodycam footage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2409606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ap22300462141623-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45377,50501,50597,51521],"class_list":["post-2409605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1-5-million","tag-dc-2","tag-jan-6-2","tag-police-bodycam"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ap22300462141623-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409605","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409609,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409605\/revisions\/2409609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}