Officer Sues Over False Pipe Bomb Claims

0:00It's April 21st. You're listening to entertainment and celebrity news today, AI-powered entertainment coverage. A former U.S. Capitol police officer named Shawnee Kirkhoff, who protected the building during the January 6th riot in 2021, just filed. A massive defamation lawsuit against Steve Baker and his bosses at Blaze Media. Baker, a pardon rioter from that day, turned so-called reporter, accused her of planting pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic headquarters, the night before. He claimed some fancy forensic gate analysis showed a 98% match to her walk on surveillance video. The suit, dropped in Virginia Court this week, also named reporter Joseph Hanneman. Kirkhoff's team says they flat out invented the evidence she was home with her boyfriend and dog, backed by cell phone video. Meanwhile, the FBI nailed a real suspect, Brian Cole from Virginia, back in December. Kirkhoff earned a congressional goal medal for her January 6th service, but these wild

1:01claims turned her world upside down. FBI agents grilled her, searched her home and car, even ran bomb dogs through the place. She took a polygraph, got put on leave for her CIA job, and now lives in fear, hiding under a baseball cap from neighbors who shun her. Baker and Hanneman never properly retracted, just quietly tweaked articles after CBS debunked with her alibi video. Even after Cole's arrest, they swapped her photo for blurry footage, and now hand he's some fall guy. They've raised $20,000 online to keep pushing their inside job theories on the riot. This case could finally hold them accountable for the damage, setting the record straight on who really served that day and who spread lies for.