Posted on 01/07/2023 5:23:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Mikki Witthoeft, the mother of slain Air Force veteran Ashli Babbit, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol Friday afternoon while protesting her daughter’s January 6 shooting death.
Witthoeft had reportedly conducted a memorial service for Ashli on the second anniversary of her death before she was arrested. The official charge was reportedly “jaywalking,” which is apparently rarely enforced in Washington D.C.
D.C Police Department said it was not involved in the arrest, as the incident occurred on Capitol grounds in the jurisdiction of the U.S. Capitol Police.
In April of 2021, a cursory investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia’s Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section and the Civil Rights Division, along with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division (IAD) “determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution” of Michael Byrd, the U.S. Capitol officer who fatally shot the unarmed Babbitt.
Video footage shows Byrd firing a single shot at the 35-year-old through a barricade at close range, without warning.
Prior to her arrest, Witthoeft had held a press conference on the grounds of the Capitol “to call attention to the Constitutional and human rights abuses taking place at the DC Detention Center where J6 prisoners are being held,” Human Events reported.
The press conference was initially scheduled to be held outside the DC detention center (also known as the D.C. Gulag) where the J6 defendants continue to be held in deplorable conditions.
“It has been awful. The phone call you never want to get,” said Witthoeft, who was wearing a red t-shirt with a photo of her daughter draped in the American flag in front of the Capitol. “Like I said my daughter was deployed four times and there were some days I was surprised not to get a call that something happened to her. But to know that she came to a Trump rally and was shot by her own government was just a completely shocking situation.”
The ordeal has radicalized Witthoeft, who now spends much of her time protesting the execution of her daughter. “I miss my little housewife life,” she told Human Events reporter Chris Barron. Her mission, according to Barron, is to “never let anyone forget Ashli’s life, or her death at the hands of the US government.”
“I had three different places tell me no, no, no, this is too controversial,” she told the reporter. “So even getting my child home and in a place of rest was difficult for me… they wouldn’t even let me bury my child… she was denied rendering of honors by the Air Force, despite being deployed four times and injured on her 21st birthday… she gave her youth, her ability to have a family and eventually her life for this country and they deny her the rendering of honors, so yeah I am pissed off.”
When asked about the oft-told lie that the only people who died on January 6th were five police officers, she replied: “The truth is that four American patriots died that day – my daughter, Roseanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Philips died at the hands of the Capitol police that day. And it is my belief that Officer Sicknick could possibly be still alive if they would have rendered him aid.”
Despite all of their histrionics about the disruption at the Capitol on January 6, the partisan J6 committee made no effort to investigate Babbitt’s execution. When asked how many times she has been contacted by the committee, Witthoeft told Barron, “none.”
The anger and disappointment Witthoeft feels is certainly not a partisan affair, when I ask her about why so many Congressional leaders – especially Republicans – have been silent on the issue of the treatment of J6 prisoners and I point out that no member of Congress was standing there with her today, she responded, “Amen, kinda says it all.”
When asked what she would have told the January 6th Committee if she had been called to testify, Witthoeft replied: “I would tell them to kiss my ass.”
The still-grieving mother choked up during an interview with Right Side Broadcasting.
“My daughter was an amazing, energetic, powerful woman,” Witthoeft said tearfully. “And I miss her everyday.”
[Several Tweets with video embedded in the article at the link.]
Jaywalking. I wonder if she will ever get out of J6 prison.
The Feddies are going to have to kill her to shut her up. When the gubmint boys and girls draw a bead on you, you might want to shut up.
I’m sure they would really have rather just shot her but thought that it would be just a bit too obvious.
she may not
She should have identified as BLM or antifa and gotten a pass.
They then gave a medal to the officer who killed her daughter.
“The Honorable” Hakeem Jeffries then lied yesterday saying six officers lost their lives on 1/6. Not one did.
After last night’s agreement and Speaker vote, WE are in charge of the House and its investigations. One of the key points of the agreement is that the committee to investigate the role of these agencies in censorship and election tampering will be headed by Tom Massie, who is tough as nails. Another point is that all congressional documents on the J6 incident will be publicly released, and I assume this includes the 1400 hours of video Miss Pelosi has kept from view with the connivance of the odious former congresspeople Warmonger Cheney’s daughter and Adam Kinzinger. No, Nansi, you will not be able to continue to hide this just as the “friends” of your husband can hide the video of his purported “attacker”.
J6 is a Feddie clown show. Insurrection my arse. The communists needed to paint Americans as criminals so they came up with this two-bit crap show.
Yes.
The 20 did a great service to America.
Want ALL the info about 1/6 to come out. Nancy refused the National Guard. Why? What alphabet agency actors were present? Where’s all the video footage - ALL of it. Autists on 4chan can go through it in a few days. Those guys are dedicated.
They need to bring the folks in the DC gulag up to Capitol Hill to testify the conditioned they’ve endured.
I wonder if she will be shot while trying to escape.
It was the Democrat Reichstag Fire.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. :(
This is Kevin’s problem now. Does he stop it or let his fellow deep-state swamp rats keep swampin away?
She’s been in DC for months, protesting. So the timing is suspicious.
The RATS, at point in time, can lie about ANYTHING, do ANYTHING they want to just about anybody they want to do it to and, as they have proven, get away with it..
And this will continue until someone, somewhere, in what's left of this nation, finds some way to fix the voting booth..
And, by the way, The RATS think that "Hakeem" is the second coming of the obummer.. I think he would be, at least, a thousand times worse...if that's possible. (spit)
One of the hazards of driving in DC is that everybody jaywalks. I myself have jaywalked in DC dozens of times. So this is a BS charge.
She was arrested for being Ashli’s mom and for being at the prison many nights supporting J6 gulag prisoners
And Cindy Sheehan was venerated ( then quickly dropped when became a perceived liability) by MSM while holding W guilty for son’s death in Iraq .....
She was already released, however I wonder what the Gestapo said to her…
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