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Exclusive: Officer who killed Ashli Babbitt [once] abandoned US Capitol post for card game, lied to investigators about it, source says
Blaze Media ^ | 12/12/24 | Steve Baker & Joseph M. Hanneman

Posted on 12/13/2024 1:08:08 AM PST by CFW

The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was recommended for termination in 2001 for abandoning his post in the Speaker’s Office for a card game in a nearby cloakroom, then lying about it to Internal Affairs Division investigators, Blaze News has learned.

The 2001 investigation of Michael L. Byrd, 56, was the first known disciplinary case brought against the lieutenant who crept from his blind near the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021, and shot Babbitt to death. The 2001 incident is the fourth such disciplinary case disclosed since Nov. 20.

A source with detailed knowledge of the Internal Affairs Division case told Blaze News that Byrd was charged with abandoning his post, eating and drinking at his post, and lying to investigators — a terminable offense. It is one of three Byrd disciplinary cases for which records could not be found when a House oversight subcommittee requested them in early 2024, the source said.

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According to Loudermilk’s Nov. 20 letter, the Capitol Police had planned to loan a shotgun to Byrd, but he failed the federal background check and did not qualify after shotgun training.

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Byrd shot back 20 minutes later, “We play the game as you request and then once we’re in compliance you guys change the rules on us. If we were aware that our situation would be looped in with everyone on the department then we would have been better prepared.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ashlibabbitt; banglist; byrd; capitolpolice; corruption; dopeonarope; jan6th; pianowire; police; thespandauballet; thetyburnjig
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This is a very informative piece, but it will make your blood boil. It contains some interesting quotes from emails.
1 posted on 12/13/2024 1:08:08 AM PST by CFW
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That little piece of seditious Democrat cr@p Lizard Cheney undoubtedly knew all this.

Mikey and Lizard can do the Tyburn Jig side by each on the same tree.

2 posted on 12/13/2024 1:22:25 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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Why did he fail a gun background check? That seems like a mighty big red flag.
If they can’t get him a shotgun because he failed a background check maybe he shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun inside the Capitol? No? Substance abuse, mental illness, convictions for domestic violence or felony convictions are reasons people fail a gun background check…why did this guy fail??


3 posted on 12/13/2024 1:51:29 AM PST by oldernittany
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Biden pardon in 3, 2, 1…..


4 posted on 12/13/2024 1:58:27 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: oldernittany

DEI hire likely.

Make an example of him.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 1:59:07 AM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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I wonder when he will be named chief of police?


6 posted on 12/13/2024 2:12:37 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: VanShuyten

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is / But this most foul, strange and unnatural.”


7 posted on 12/13/2024 2:13:26 AM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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What a buffoon


8 posted on 12/13/2024 2:15:30 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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Who?

Me or this cold blooded murderer?


9 posted on 12/13/2024 2:17:43 AM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: All

10 posted on 12/13/2024 2:20:42 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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Black privilege. Can’t imagine the other way around if a white fed murdered a black civilian encouraged by another white person like Ray Epps.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 3:16:45 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Michael Byrd is a PURE EVIL POS!!


12 posted on 12/13/2024 3:21:39 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: oldernittany

Probably ALL OF THE ABOVE!!


13 posted on 12/13/2024 3:22:38 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mark17

He got a PROMOTION for KILLING HER!


14 posted on 12/13/2024 3:23:08 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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This POS committed cold blooded murder and justice DEMANDS he face those consequences. Babbit’s family deserves it.
There is no statute of limitations on murder.


15 posted on 12/13/2024 3:49:57 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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bet hes on the pardon list. A list in the past used for injustice is now being used to save those in the corruption family


16 posted on 12/13/2024 4:40:31 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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So they had the goods on him and bought him off with goods.


17 posted on 12/13/2024 4:43:45 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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this case needs to be reopened and this murderer prosecuted


18 posted on 12/13/2024 4:46:25 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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Byrd is a low-life scum who will murder unarmed/unthreatening political opponents if ordered by Democrat party leaders to do so. Without a second thought.


19 posted on 12/13/2024 5:01:26 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

20 posted on 12/13/2024 5:31:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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