Security Cameras Suddenly Pan Away as Bomb Squad Responds to Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb

WASHINGTON—Two key U.S. Capitol Police security cameras that were pointed at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) offices during the Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bomb incident were remotely redirected by police and didn’t record or broadcast critical portions of the police response, The Epoch Times has learned. A review of yet-unreleased security video footage by The Epoch Times shows Capitol Police Camera 3173—located directly across the street from where the DNC bomb sat—was remotely directed away from the scene at 1:29 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, before the bomb squad arrived. The Epoch Times discovered that Camera 8020—located high on the nearby Fairchild Building—had been zoomed in showing the bomb squad assembling along E Street Southeast, until the Capitol Police Command Center redirects the camera at 1:44 p.m. just as a bomb robot begins traveling toward the DNC....