Judicial Watch Releases Over 1,000 Hours of DC, Metro Police Body-Cam Footage from January 6 Protest in 1,630 Videos – DIG IN! * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hoft

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U.S. Capitol Police officers stand guard during a protest at the Capitol, with a cloudy sky and a crowd visible in the background.US Capitol Police bodycam footage from January 6, 2021.

Finally, the truth is coming out.

The Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage from the January 6, 2021 protests at the US Capitol — a whopping 1,630 videos in all.

And it didn’t happen because the government suddenly decided to be transparent. It happened because Judicial Watch dragged them into court and won.

According to Judicial Watch, the videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC Freedom of Information Act case.

Judicial Watch announced the news on X:

The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website.

** judicialwatch.org/january6bodycam
** judicialwatch.org/january-6-body

Judicial Watch announced the court win today.

The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here and http://www.judicialwatch.org/january6bodycam.

Judicial Watch filed the DC FOIA lawsuit in June 2024 after the DC Police denied an August 2021 request for all body-worn camera footage recorded by police officers responding to the January 6, 2021, events at and around the U.S. Capitol (Judicial Watch v. District of Columbia (No. 2024-CAB-003453)).

Earlier this year, a local DC court dealt a major blow to government secrecy by ruling that the DC Police could not broadly blur and censor the footage. Rejecting DC Police’s claim that it could withhold faces and voices of everyone except law enforcement—and its assertion that producing the footage would cost more than $1.5 million—the court held that any privacy interests were minimal and outweighed by the overwhelming public interest in disclosure.

Nearly five years after January 6, the American people are STILL fighting in court just to see what the government’s own cameras recorded that day.

Why did it take a court ruling to pry this footage loose?

And, what is in these 1,630 videos that DC officials fought so hard to keep hidden from the public?

Don’t expect the failed mainstream media to dig through this footage looking for answers. They decided on their January 6 narrative years ago and never looked back.

But now the videos are out. Over 1,000 hours of them.

Sunlight is coming — whether the DC establishment likes it or not.

** Please contact The Gateway Pundit contributor Jenn Baker at [email protected] if you find something you think we should see.

Thank you. And, thank you, Judicial Watch!

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