By Joseph M. Hanneman
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.
Previously unreleased Capitol Police closed-circuit-television footage obtained by The Epoch Times adds crucial new details to the tragic story of Ms. Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, who died after collapsing outside the Lower West Terrace tunnel on Jan. 6, 2021.
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 (CPR).
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.
Ms. Boyland’s mother, Cheryl Boyland, thought something seemed off about that report from the time she first read it at 4:23 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2021. “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.
The new video only deepens the stark contrast between the indifference shown to a pulseless Ms. Boyland by police outside the tunnel and the unflinching trauma care she received from medics, police officers, and paramedics once she was brought inside the Capitol.
The video also underscores the desperate attempts to save Ms. Boyland’s life by a group of fellow protesters, who repeatedly begged police for medical help and began CPR themselves when no officers stepped forward.
It does nothing, however, to explain why MPD Officer Lila Morris beat the unconscious Ms. Boyland with a walking stick while she lay prone and defenseless on the sidewalk.
“Once again, we are very appreciative of these people trying to save her, but come to the same conclusion as before,” Bret Boyland, Rosanne’s father, told The Epoch Times. “She got the attention way too late.”
Mr. Boyland said in the initial wake of Jan. 6, the family was unsure if his daughter got any medical care after she collapsed. The new CCTV video helped to answer that question.
“We were relieved to see they were actually trying to save her,” Mr. Boyland said. “Before seeing any of these videos we just didn’t know they did anything and maybe just shoved her over in some corner and ignored her.
“This video is more comfort to that initial uncertainty we had and helped answer that original question of what did they do after they dragged her inside,” Mr. Boyland said.
Ms. Boyland traveled to Washington to attend President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse. She traveled with a friend, Justin F. Winchell, 44, of Marietta, Georgia. She was the last of four of Mr. Trump’s supporters to die at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Ms. Boyland wandered into the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the Capitol at 4:18 p.m. that day. At the time, the crowd in the tunnel was not violent, although serious fighting had occurred earlier.
At 4:20 p.m., police released gas into the tunnel, setting off a stampede of protesters toward the tunnel mouth. Ms. Boyland fell to the ground on the north side of the tunnel entrance, where she and dozens of others became trapped under piles of bodies. Mr. Winchell told the Boyland family that Ms. Boyland collapsed after being struck in the chest with a projectile, likely a pepper ball.
‘I Felt I Was Going to Die’
“I felt it because I can’t breathe. That’s what it felt like,” protester Philip Anderson, who stood next to Ms. Boyland in the tunnel, told The Epoch Times in 2022. “So I turn around and run away. I try to get out as fast as I can.
“If I had stood still, I honestly felt I was going to die,” Mr. Anderson said. “That’s what it felt like, ‘You’re not going to be able to get air inside if you don’t get out now.’”
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. The new Capitol Police CCTV video was obtained through access granted by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Previously released police bodycam video documented the desperate pleas from the crowd for police to stop pushing protesters out of the tunnel. The unfolding tragedy was punctuated by cries of, “Save her,” “Oh God, a woman’s down,” and “There are people trapped under here!”
Protesters, including Edward “Jake” Lang, Tennessee sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee, and podcaster Villain Phoenix, attempted CPR on Ms. Boyland after she was pulled away from the tunnel mouth where she lay unconscious.
“They collapsed inside that corridor from asphyxiation,” the podcaster said in a live stream broadcast on Jan. 6. “She couldn’t breathe. And they brought her out onto the main steps outside of that. Several people started doing CPR on her.
“I tried to get her carotid pulse for several minutes,” he said. “I cut part of her jeans away so I could try to feel her femoral pulse, and I couldn’t feel her femoral pulse at all. I tried for a minute or two on both.”
The densely packed crowd became angry after seeing Ms. Morris emerge on the front police line and hit the lifeless Ms. Boyland with a wooden walking stick. Ms. Boyland was struck three times, bodycam video shows.
‘We Were Attacked’
“…She is laid out, maybe dead at this point, but they hit her at least two times in the body,” Mr. Winchell said in 2021. “And then they hit her once in the face, once right here in her nose, and some blood started coming out of her nose. Like, this is not a joke. Like, we were attacked.”
Mr. Winchell told the Boyland family that Ms. Boyland was struck by rubber bullets, a fact relayed to the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Bodycam footage reviewed by The Epoch Times shows a police officer firing pepper balls into the tunnel crowd at 4:20 p.m., just as police began an aggressive push toward the tunnel mouth.
Pepper balls contain PAVA—a powder-based irritant similar to capsicum that forms a small cloud upon impact. Fired by compressed air, the pepper projectiles travel up to 300 feet per second.
The pepper cloud can cause “skin irritation, serious eye irritation, and serious respiratory irritation,” according to one manufacturer’s product literature. “Exposure may result in copious tears, temporary blindness, burning sensation, and difficulty breathing.”
Use-of-force expert Stan Kephart previously told The Epoch Times that Morris’s use of force was a felonious “assault under the color of authority,” with intent to cause great bodily harm. He said that Morris should be prosecuted in criminal court and fired from the police force. Metropolitan Police designated all uses of force on Jan. 6 as “objectively reasonable,” including Ms. Morris’s striking Ms. Boyland.
Kephart also questioned the use of gas in an enclosed space due to the lack of easy egress and the tendency for the gas to remove the oxygen in the air.
Totalitarian fascist police state.
Here’s another person who would be alive today if it weren’t for Donald Trump and his damn lies.
So, it’s Trump’s fault a Capital Police renegade beat a woman to death? The only liars are Democrats and their defenders.
YES, you idiot! She was trampled in the crush of the crowd at the behest of Donald Trump. What the hell was she doing there? Same with Ashli Babbitt, another Qanon idiot who disobeyed a lawful order and lost her life. Then there’s the nearly 100 cops who got the crap beat out of them by the Trump mob while your hero did nothing about it. There’s Peter Stager, sentenced yesterday to four years in jail for beating officer Blake Miller with a flagpole. Eight others are charged with assaulting officer Miller.
And you fault the cops for defending themselves?
We fault the federal government for being involved in a coup against our people in our nation.
January 6th was a false flag meant to install an unelected Biden. Full stop.
You pigs are getting awfully desperate.
I’m honestly surprised that they are still trying to double down on this j6 hoax.
It’s entertaining.
The Left is violent.
The Right is not.
You have a copy of this order from Trump or do you think you can continue to throw any lie out here and expect it to be taken seriously? Capital and Metro Police were given carte blanc to assault the protesters. The police opened fire on them outside before there was any violence. Byrd shot Babbitt in cold blood. You leftists have lied so much and so often about cops being killed or assaulted you might actually be believing it yourselves.
How many FBI assets were there, inciting violence? Why hasn’t Ray Epps been charged? This was a Democrat operation, you stupid, moronic dickhead.
Trump and his accomplices incited the January 6 riot, and would do it again to stay out of prison.
Democrats, the FBI and Capital Police incited the violence. It’s been determined.
(rerun for your consideration)
I think most (not all, but a large number ) of people are totally missing what happened ..and why this happened on jan 6.
I am going to try my best to outline the events that day…blast past the commonly held assumptions and get right down to the core corruption.
I will present this as a series of questions and answers.
q1: how do you prevent congress from delaying the certification of state electoral votes?
a: it requires a crisis. A crisis that creates an “emergency”…An “emergency” that invokes special house rules.
facts: remember, carefully…focus please…remember…just moments..literally 3 minutes before two representatives issued a vote for motions to suspend the certification the House members were “informed” by capitol police and other “agents” that a protest was about to breach the chambers. It was at this time that key people: pence, pelosi, schumer, mcconnell can be seen being walked out and escorted from the chamber. This effectively halted the Entire Chamber Process.
q2: why was it necessary to halt the chamber process
a2: the crisis was created to eliminate the motion challenges to halt the certification and to begin voting to look into voting irregularities and fraud
facts: the two motions were completely legal and constitutional under at least two constitutionally recognized procedures…procedures that would REQUIRE the house to pause the certification and then vote to determine whether the motions of suspend could move forward.
q3: what was so important to refuse this motion and the subsequent votes to suspend the electoral certification
a3: it was important to remove that process entirely and continue the fraud and certify the fraud with no detractors on record. This effectively gives no standing for a scotus ruling appeal! understand this. If those two motions, even just one had successfully been voted EVEN IF THE MOTIONS were DENIED IN VOTE, this gives those who presented them with STANDING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL ARGUMENT BEFORE SCOTUS. Understand this.
q4: could this have been done some other way other than creating a crisis/protest?
a4: unlikely….In order to prevent those two motions, requires that speaker of the house, minority leaders, and the president of the congress (vice president of the united states: pence), to NOT BE PRESENT IN THE CHAMBERS. Once the capitol police and other “law enforcements agents” informed the speaker and these three other individuals, pelosi UNILATERALLY UNDER EMERGENCY RULES, suspended the business of the congress. This protest was necessary ..the crisis was created..because there is no other way to suspend the business of certification UNILATERALLY. By creating a crisis…invokes emergency procedures. No other circumstances other than war or mass simultaneous explosive diaahrea can create such unilateral speaker delivered suspension of the certification.
q5: Why did the motions, once that the speaker RECONVENED congress, move forward back again to the floor for votes? Why were members dissallowed to even consider putting forward ANY motions to the floor in when the chamber business was reopened?
a5: the speaker initiated the NEW sessions under special emergency rules. These rules abandon and make it clear that the ONLY purpose of the new session was to EXPEDITE the certification and dismiss all prior regular session procedural rules. This is why those two motions to table votes to consider a debate and pause to the certifications of state vote electors never happened later that evening when the house business was reconvened!
q6: Other than new rules, emergency rules, what other peculiar things occurred when the speaker reconvened?
a6: members were allowed to “vote” in proxy…remotely…not being present…(you can use your imagination about what conditions were placed on ALL members during this time to prevent anyone from “getting out of line”. Also clearly, it was at THIS NEW SESSION that VP Pence, President of Congress, would also have no ability to even consider pausing the electoral certification…because there was no motions of disagreements on the matter. So in a technical legal claim, he is correct that he had no constitutional authority to address any issues of fraud or doubts about electoral irregularities. But this completely dismisses the FACT that congress created rules in this crisis/emergency that never allowed them to be floored!
understand what happened in jan 6…don’t get hung up on viking impostors, stolen pelosi computers, podium heists, and complicit capitol police.
understand the process and what happened and what WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
this was a coup….it was a very organized and carefully planned coup. VP Pence without a doubt as well as most members of the house were quite aware of how the certification was going to be MANAGED.
it would require new rules to prevent the debate clause from occurring!
new rules that ONLY AN EMERGENCY CRISIS COULD CREATE!
so they created an emergency.
noting: I understand why many people have great interest in debunking the j6 event…I get that. I think it is important to dissect and examine the events of that day.
but please…step back and understand WHY these things happened…examine the chain of events in congress…why those two motions that would have at least paused the certification THAT WOULD GIVE VP PENCE THE CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZED POWER TO MOVE TO SUSPEND THE ELECTORAL CERTIFICATION AND THEN EXAMINE THE IRREGULARITIES AND CLAIMS OF FRAUD!
at the very center of this coup stands Pence…the same individual who also spoiled President Trump’s first opportunities in the earlies hours of his Presidency just 4 years prior, when he created and facilitated the removal of LTGEN Flynn. I will not spend much time on this thread explaining why LTGEN Flynn was so important to President Trump and why the IC was so afraid he would have advisory power to the President. That I will leave for another day, another time. But understand this clearly: MIKE PENCE WAS AND IS WORKING FOR THE MOST CORRUPT CRIMINAL TREASONOUS PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT.
protip: if you really want to get a true understanding of this matter videos of protesters walking in the capitol is not going to address them. Actual video and time line records of events and the specific actions taken by the speaker just moments before TWO MAJOR ELECTORAL ALTERING MOTIONS WERE ABOUT TO BE FLOORED. This crisis was developed just in time with a precise coordination to prevent those two motions to be entered into the chamber record. The two motions do not exist. The emergency powers established in the new session made sure they never could be entered. The emergency powers could never happen without a crisis…
God Bless America
The Parliamentary Motive Behind the J6 Fedsurrection – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
Tucker Carlson Responds to the Blitzkrieg of DC and Media Apoplexy Following His Broadcast of J6 CCTV Video – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
I have forwarded the material to sundance. I have also shared this information with all of my representatives.
I started this effort years ago.
To date, no one and I mean no one has replied.
It’s as if everyone that can expose it that has a larger platform is either disinterested, or suspiciously withdrawn from the issue.
I made several comments about this over the years right here at CTH, on article threads that are relevant to the topic.
I was watching the certification live that day. I recorded it ALL on every channel. I was doing this because no matter what happened that day, I KNEW IT WOULD BE A PROFOUND AND SIGNIFICANT EVENT TO REMEMBER. I never in my wildest imagination (and I have a pretty vivid imagination..always have), expected to see the unmistakable perfectly timed “coincidences” that occured ….
one member raise a motion….(with another in waiting for his turn)…those two motions were well known and advertised. These were motions to vote for a pause in the certification to examine electoral vote fraud and irregularities. I can’t speak to the veracity and substance of those motions. They were never allowed to even be floored. it was at that exact moment that the house chambers were suspended and 4 of the key members, pence, pelosi, schumer and mcconnel were escorted OUT right after inititating the end of the session. Effectively, this resulted in that motion never being floored…at all.
and then when reconvended, under special emergency rules, inexplicably those two motions (and perhaps more..we will never know..or will WE?) were not even attempted to be motioned.
that was not just peculiar to me.
It all started to make more sense when I did some study on constitutional law AND THE HISTORY of specific special authorities given to president of the congress…pence in this case. Not only did he have the authority and power to suspend the certification..but the duty to address the motion in the same sense that it becomes vital to the debate clause. There really is no more higher significance of weight given to the debate clause than the certification of the votes. This was more than odd to me the way that the media and pence framed their narrative: Pence would not have the constitutional power to suspend certification.
and then it hits me…like the obvious clue that was there all the time. he was right.
but the reason he is right, is because there WAS NO MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO CAUSE HIM TO SUSPEND!
understanding this, happened for me about 4 or 5 months after this jan 6 day. I took me this long to examine the facts, look at the video again..compare it to the arguments made by several leading constitutional academics…and again, inexplicably even some that I respect seemed to dodge that central reality. the motions were never allowed to be floored in the re-convened house rules later that evening. most would not even venture to address the exotically coincidence that the moment those two members would stand to place the motion before the house, that the house speaker…pelosi AND Pence, ended the session…effectively blocking the motions from being heard in normal house rules.
It’s been a journey for me. I journey that was initiated because I am just a simple but curious person. Perhaps even to a point where I get obsessive in those efforts. Many days and nights combing over the details. praying and trying to make sense of what makes little sense. With over 6 states having serious well known and obvious defects in the voting process…some more credible to believe ..some less…but one would not expect the house would be so deliberate in marching past the motions that were definitely going to be present to slow this process down and take the time to get it right…even IF the claims never reached a intersection that would change the outcome.
There are two possibilities:
millions of people, against all the odds, hitting all time records even past obama and clinton, voted for a navel gazing ambulatory pathological racist moron. And chose Joe Malarkey as their leader
or
this was a coup…a conspiracy…and a treasonous manipulation regime change because President Trump could not be controlled by the deep state and globalists who OWN AND OPERATE WASHINGTON DC.
BOTH POSSIBILITIES ARE TERRIFYING.
The only way for THE PEOPLE to gain power in this country is to force the transfer of it.
if truth isn’t the fuel and vehicle, we will just be replacing deck chairs and hitting the next series of expected ice bergs.
knowing the truth is not enough. but it is truth that makes it a righteous cause.
God Bless America
The Democrats try to shut down all investigation and discussion before critical evidence can be exposed in such a way that it can no longer be suppressed. Bribegate is about to blow up in their stupid faces in a way that will splatter everyone. The DOJ, of course, will do nothing.
Democrats killed 25 people in the antifa/BLM riots.
A Biden whistleblower just ended up dead, and the clintons have killed so many people we have a term for it: Arkancide.
Trump hasn’t been responsible for killing anyone.
Get lost.