Video shows officer striking motionless woman on ground during Capitol riot

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“That is a crime, an arrestable offense,” Stanley Kephart, CEO of Intelligence Based Integrated Security Systems, told the outlet, noting the officer was in a tough situation. “If you have a trained officer who is angry at what the crowd is doing and the crowd rises up and puts him in a position where he feels his personal safety is compromised, fear begins to take over the anger, and the reflexive response throws the training right out the window.”

At the time of the alleged strike, Boyland is believed to have collapsed near the mouth of the lower west terrace tunnel at the Capitol. Protesters nearby sought to procure assistance from the officers who were scrambling to contain the riot. Boyland’s friend, Justin Winchell, begged for someone to help Boyland. “My God! She’s dead! She’s dead!” he yelled at 4:26 p.m., according to the report.

About two minutes later, protester Luke Coffee came before the police officers and yelled for them to stop before being pepper-sprayed, video shows, whereupon a rioter throws a large wooden stick at the police officer, who uses the stick to strike Coffee and deliver a blow to Boyland’s ribs as well as two hits to her head despite her being motionless, according to the report.

After a back-and-forth with the protesters, which involved them attacking officers with crutches, the officers moved a seemingly unconscious Boyland inside the Capitol at around 4:31 p.m., per the report, where they began undertaking resuscitation efforts, including CPR and using what reportedly appeared to be a defibrillator, aimed a resuscitating her. Boyland did not arrive at the hospital until 6 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 6:09 p.m.

“We are not 100% [certain of] when she actually passed but agree it was in that time frame [4:21 to 4:26 p.m.] and probably before Lila Morris got hold of that stick,” her father told the Epoch Times. “No matter whether Rosanne was alive or not, we were shocked and appalled at the officer’s attack.”

Initial reports indicated Boyland was killed as a result of a crowd crush, but a medical examiner determined her cause of death was “accidental acute amphetamine intoxication,” the Washington Post reported last year. She reportedly had a prescription for Adderall, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, at the time, which the examiner contended caused the amphetamine intoxication.

Her family hired Park Dietz & Associates to evaluate the autopsy but determined her death was caused by manual asphyxia — a condition in which the body is deprived of oxygen, according to the Epoch Times. Her body was cremated, which made performing a new autopsy impossible.

In response to an excessive-force complaint filed last year against the officer who allegedly struck Boyland, the director of the Risk Management Division of the Metro Police Internal Affairs Bureau replied, “The use of force within this investigation was determined to be objectively reasonable,” according to the outlet.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the U.S Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department for comment on the latest reporting.

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Late last year, the Justice Department released three hours of footage from the riot. Some videos circulating the internet last year purporting to show an officer assaulting Boyland have been scrutinized by fact-checkers. Last November, for example, Newsweek released a report scrutinizing footage it claimed originated from “videos spliced together to mislead.”

Four people among the Jan. 6 rioters died, including Ashli Babbitt, Kevin D. Greeson, Boyland, and Benjamin Philips.