A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal.
Along the edge of the Capitol property, Officer 2 encouraged one protester to go up to the building.
"This video clearly evidences undercover law enforcement officers urging the crowds to advance up the stairs and scaffolding towards the Capitol on January 6," Pope wrote in an earlier case filing.
"The specific footage, GoPro video recorded by an MPD police officer who was stationed at the Capitol in an evidence-gathering capacity, captures the officer shouting words to the effect of,"Go! Go! Go!" Moran wrote.
"At other times in these videos, the officer and the two other plainclothes officers with him appear to join the crowd around them in various chants, including"drain the swamp," "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!", and "Whose house? Our house!".
"Given the highly volatile nature of the discourse surrounding these cases, releasing the identities of the officers depicted in these videos-officers the defendant now claims to have instigated the entire attack on the U.S. Capitol-would surely put the lives of those officers at risk.
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