Two undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers (red circle) follow Ashli Babbitt (blue circle) up the northwest stairs of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ( One of those officers repeatedly predicted that someone would get shot on Jan. 6, Pope contended in another motion filed in November 2022.“While my descriptions of the undercover MPD officers are accurate, the media and the public should not have to rely on my descriptions alone,” Pope wrote. Micki Witthoeft (C), mother of Ashli Babbitt, at a Jan. 6, 2023, protest on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. ( The undercover video is among 41,000 hours of footage held under court seal by the U.S. Department of Justice. Pope and other Jan. 6 defendants who are representing themselves in court are seeking more complete access to evidence databases controlled by federal prosecutors.
In his November motion, Pope said that “Officer 1” climbed over a police barricade on the northwest side of the Capitol exterior. Our house!”Officer 1—dressed in goggles, a dark jacket, and a striped face gaiter—pushed protesters in front of him as he cajoled them to keep moving toward the Capitol entrance, Pope wrote. Babbitt entered the Capitol at the top of the northwest stairs and a short time later made her way into a hallway outside of the Speaker’s Lobby. At about 2:45 p.m., she was shot by Capitol Police Lt. Babbitt was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later at a D.C. hospital.“Since the public interest and concern regarding these exhibits is understandably high, and since the government has already hidden these important facts from the American people for more than two years, I ask this honorable court to grant this motion as soon as possible,” Pope wrote. gave a copy of all 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security video, body-camera footage, and other videos exclusively to Tucker Carlson at Fox News.
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