Fox News host Tucker Carlson claims video footage shows that police officers "helped" and acted as "tour guides" for the so-called "QAnon Shaman" who stormed the US Capitol while wearing a horned headdress on January 6, 2021. This is false; Jacob Anthony Chansley pleaded guilty to a felony crime after videos showed him disobeying police orders, and he is serving prison time. The Capitol Police chief, meanwhile, said Carlson's apparent attempt to play down Chansley's conduct was "outrageous and false."
"To this day, there is dispute over how he got into the Capitol building," Carlson said March 6, 2023 on his primetime television show, one of the most-watched cable news programs in the United States. "The tapes show the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides."
The Fox News host continued: "Not one of them even tried to slow him down. Jacob Chansley understood that Capitol Police were his allies."
The videos, which do not include audio, show Chansley wandering around the Capitol as officers trail him. Carlson noted in the broadcast that he had received the tapes from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose decision to hand over the footage has been criticized by many as an attempt to inflame political tensions more than two years since the failed insurrection at the home of US democracy.
The footage shot across social media after Carlson's segment was promoted by conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jr.
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