By Steve Baker || April 6, 2026

Attorneys representing former U.S. Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff have contended that reporting we did at Blaze Media in November 2025 about their client was inaccurate, claiming she does not have a discernible right leg drag or limp.

In a January letter threatening a defamation lawsuit against Blaze and two journalists, Clare Locke challenged our reporting that Kerkhoff had a limp from a 2015 college soccer injury. The limp was clear on security videos of Kerkhoff from Jan. 6 at the Capitol.

“Blaze Media’s analysis was also factually flawed,” the Clare Locke attorneys wrote. “Ms. Kerkhoff’s 2015 soccer injury did not give her a ‘slight limp’ from which any reasonable ‘analyst’ could link her to the bombing suspect. Ms. Kerkhoff has fully recovered from her injury. In the interim, she has run multiple marathons.”

Veritas Regnat has hours of video showing Kerkhoff’s unusual “circumduction gait.” (A kind of limp.) This includes hours of video harvested from Capitol Police CCTV of her as a Capitol Police officer on January 6, 2021, and from her short professional soccer career.

In our Nov. 8 investigative article, we noted that Kerkhoff was a marathon runner. We’d already captured many photos of her participation in marathon events from deep web scrapes.

The now-former congressional liaison to the FBI, Marshall Yates, once said—while reviewing video of the J6 pipe bomber in the office of his former employer, Rep. Thomas Massie—“We need to be looking for a marathon runner.”

Why? Because of distinct physical traits that are characteristic of marathon runners —and exhibited by the hoodie-clad suspect while on the 44-minute trek around the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on the night of Jan. 5, 2021.

No limp? Video evidence says otherwise. •