After CPR and other lifesaving efforts inside a basement entrance to the U.S. Capitol failed, Jan. 6 protester Rosanne M. Boyland was moved up one level to the Crypt, where DC Fire and EMS Department paramedics continued resuscitation efforts for another 40 minutes, new security video shows.
The security video deflates claims made in the initial Capitol Police report that Ms. Boyland simply collapsed in the Capitol Rotunda at 5 p.m. on Jan. 6, and that the officer who observed her "Wandering around the Rotunda" immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Nothing that the Metropolitan Police Department relayed to Ms. Boyland's family from the Jan. 7 report turned out to be true, except that she was dead. As the security video conclusively shows, Ms. Boyland did not collapse in the Rotunda and paramedics did not find her there receiving CPR from two unnamed Capitol Police officers.
"I was shocked and angry that the police would lie about Rosanne's death on their report to other police officers," Mrs. Boyland told The Epoch Times in an email.
Over the past 18 months, The Epoch Times has assembled eyewitness accounts, police reports, open-source video, and police bodycam footage as part of its investigation of Ms. Boyland's death.
Ms. Boyland was placed back on the gurney and taken back through the Crypt to the Law Library, where the stretcher exited the Capitol at 5:33 p.m. The ambulance did not reach George Washington University Hospital until 6 p.m. Ms. Boyland was pronounced dead at 6:09 p.m. After watching the new CCTV video, Mr. Boyland said he is left with the same haunting question: what if advanced rescue efforts had been started outside the Capitol when protesters begged for help?
4:28:10As Mr. Coffee raises an aluminum crutch over his head at the police line, protesters reach in and pull Ms. Boyland away from the tunnel mouth and start CPR. 4:28:50Ms. Morris appears to collapse and is dragged back into the tunnel by other police officers, gasping, "I can't breathe!".
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