[Washington Examiner] An attorney to several people charged in connection to the Capitol on Jan. 6 wants the U.S. government to release videos that he says will reveal the "truth" of that day.Joseph McBride told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday that he had filed a motion in court "asking for the unmasking of these videos."
He said the motion was "joined by The New York Times and a 16-point press conglomerate." McBride said "they signed on" because they "want to see the truth about what happened as well."
The motion was filed Dec. 1 in the Capitol riot case of Ryan Nichols , a 30-year-old former Marine from Texas who claims footage deemed sensitive by the Justice Department could exonerate him and other Jan. 6 defendants, according to the Epoch Times .
McBride and Nichols, his client, say the unreleased footage shows the activities of four suspected government agent provocateurs, whom he has nicknamed "RedFace45," "GogglesMan," "PippiLongScarf," and "BirdMan." The filing claims that among the footage is video that "shows multiple occurrences of police brutality, including a vicious beating given by a Metropolitan Police Department officer of an unarmed civilian woman."
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Justice Department for comment. Prosecutors have criticized Nichols for "casting himself as a hero who was merely fighting back against officers who were ’terrorizing’ civilians."