The investigative outlet Reveal released some of the D.C. police body camera footage from the arrest of a gunman who stormed Comet Ping Pong in 2016, and the video shows that, at some point after being handcuffed, the then-suspect was uncuffed in public while talking to an officer.

Edgar Maddison Welch tells police that he brought guns into the popular pizzeria because he was “making sure there’s nothing there” regarding a “pedophile ring”—which officers quickly interpret as a reference to Pizzagate, a disproven online hoax popularized a month or so earlier that the restaurant’s basement was the site of child sexual abuse tied to Democratic elites. Welch walked into Comet Ping Pong on the afternoon of December 4, 2016 with a loaded AR-15 and a revolver, causing customers and employees to flee. He fired his AR-15 multiple times and pointed a weapon at an employee, per court documents. After finding no evidence of child trafficking inside, Welch surrendered peacefully to police. He pled guilty to weapons charges and is currently serving a four-year sentence in federal prison.

The video from Reveal shows police handcuffing Welch, and asking him about his weapons and how he arrived in D.C. Then, at some point later on in the footage, Welch appears uncuffed at the scene, speaking to an officer while his hands are on his hips. It’s unclear why he would be uncuffed at the scene of the crime.

Multiple officers are heard questioning whether their equipment would protect them from an AR-15. “What good is that ballistic shield or that helmet to an AR?” one officer asks, with another pointing out that the “shield only stops handguns and shotguns.”

D.C. police have not responded to a request for comment about the video.

Reveal acquired the footage through a Freedom of Information Act request. All Metropolitan Police Department officers have body-worn cameras, and city policy allows any subject of a video, or anyone alleging officer misconduct, to view the footage. Most recordings taken in public, like those depicting Welch’s arrest, are accessible via a FOIA request, though MPD says that “there are instances in which a viewing may be denied in full, or content within the footage redacted (blurred).” According to Reveal’s senior producer of social video, it took approximately a year from the time the news outlet made the request to when D.C. police provided the footage.

More recently, an actor from California has been charged with intentionally setting a fire at Comet Ping Pong.

1/ More than a year ago, we asked D.C. police for bodycam footage of #Pizzagate shooter Edgar Maddison Welch’s arrest.

We finally have that never-before-seen footage. pic.twitter.com/ayJhyGppSb

— Reveal (@reveal) February 23, 2019