Carlson showed segments, including ‘QAnon shaman’ Jacob Chansley, which didn’t show violence on the day rioters stormed the Capitol.
After watching the first installment of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s look at Capitol surveillance video from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger sent out a memo to his department Tuesday morning denouncing the show as “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions.”The claim by Carlson that Capitol Police served as “tour guides” for Jacob Chansley, the horn-wearing “QAnon Shaman,” was “outrageous and false,” Manger wrote.
After then-President Trump issued a video calling for rioters to disperse, the documentary shows Chansley shouting, “Trump has asked everybody to go home!” Chansley later pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison. Federal records show he is scheduled to be released in July. Of 25 people sentenced so far for obstructing an official proceeding, the average sentence is 41.7 months, according to a Washington Post database.
Carlson’s program “conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video,” Manger wrote. “The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.” Carlson previously produced a three-part series in 2021 called “Patriot Purge” on the
Carlson showed video of Sicknick returning to the fray after being sprayed with a chemical irritant. After the riot ended, Sicknick suffered a stroke and died. According to CNN,
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