Posted on 12/07/2024 8:04:51 AM PST by Starman417
On Jan 6, 2021 Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt. He shot her as she attempted to enter the Speaker's Lobby in the Capitol through a window she did not break. For his actions, democrats rewarded him handsomely, even promoting him.
House Democrats pressured U.S. Capitol Police to provide special financial assistance and even a promotion to the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer and charitable assistance not provided to other officers, according to internal emails reviewed by Just the News."He is very upset about how he is being treated. He wants us to figure this out and now," a top congressional aide to then-House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, wrote to Capitol Police in November 2021 pressing for more assistance to Lt. Michael Byrd after he killed Babbitt.
The records show that pressure also came from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff and from then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, causing Capitol Police to find any solution they could to make Byrd and Democrats happy. Despite the extraordinary assistance, Byrd expressed dissatisfaction and continued to insist he deserved more, to the chagrin of Capitol Police officials, according to records assembled by Congress.
"We play the game as you request and then once we’re in compliance You guys change the rules on us,” Byrd wrote to U.S. Capitol Police General Counsel Thomas DiBiase in November 2021 after being informed he wouldn't be able to immediately access charitable funds from a memorial fund for fallen or wounded officers.
Immediately, one wonders why Byrd was given access to a memorial fund for wounded or fallen officers as he was neither. Capitol police then set up a GoFundMe account for Byrd handing $160,000. Two years later Byrd was promoted to Captain.
All of this despite a significant disciplinary history:
It's not too strong to assert that Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt. Jonathan Turley:
At the time, some of us familiar with the rules governing police use of force raised concerns over the shooting. Those concerns were heightened by the DOJ’s bizarre review and report, which stated the governing standards but then seemed to brush them aside to clear Byrd.Today on X Paul Sperry wrote:The DOJ report did not read like any post-shooting review I have read as a criminal defense attorney or law professor. The DOJ statement notably does not say that the shooting was justified. Instead, it stressed that “prosecutors would have to prove not only that the officer used force that was constitutionally unreasonable, but that the officer did so ‘willfully.’” It seemed simply to shrug and say that the DOJ did not believe it could prove “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”
While the Supreme Court, in cases such as Graham v. Connor, has said that courts must consider “the facts and circumstances of each particular case,” it has emphasized that lethal force must be used only against someone who is “an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and … is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.” Particularly with armed assailants, the standard governing “imminent harm” recognizes that these decisions must often be made in the most chaotic and brief encounters.
Under these standards, police officers should not shoot unarmed suspects or rioters without a clear threat to themselves or fellow officers. That even applies to armed suspects who fail to obey orders. Indeed, Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby was convicted of killing a suicidal man holding a gun to his head. Despite being cleared by a police review board, Darby was prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though Darby said he feared for the safety of himself and fellow officers. Yet law professors and experts who have praised such prosecutions in the past have been conspicuously silent over the shooting of an unarmed woman who had officers in front of and behind her on Jan. 6.
USCP cop Byrd who killed unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt was cleared w/o an interview: “He didn't provide any statement to investigators and they didn't push him to make a statement,” attorney Terry Roberts told me. “It’s astonishing how skimpy his investigative file is"That brings us to a video posted last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Doing his sworn duty to protect congress from an unruly mob? Yes.
Maybe he needs to be tried for murder?
I recall the video of the execution. Byrd was under cover in a doorway. Byrd exposed himself by leaving cover to move towards Babbitt. Byrd then aimed and executed Babbitt.
Protect Congress my ass. Byrd INTENTIONALLY broke cover to take a killshot.
Premeditated Murder no doubt.
We’re gonna put him in prison.
I predict he’ll be pardoned as well
It’s high time we wake up and understand the reality what the left really is....Godless and evil.
Very similar to islam, they cannot be dealt with, they cannot be reasoned with and they both believe if you are not with them YOU must be destroyed.
I never understood why he shot HER. I mean were their not dozens even hundreds acting similarly?
Sounds like he just lost his self control and went homicidal.
And that’s as nicely as I can say what I mean here….
Melanin privilge.
Compare this with the way Daniel Penny is being treated for actually protecting New Yorkers from a drug-addled, crazed maniac on the subway who was threatening to kill people.
BTTT
Why were they bribing him?
PURE EVIL!
While that might be argued in court as some degree of manslaughter based on argued states of mind and such, it certainly was "premeditated" as I saw the video clip.
He chose to shot. Period.
Imagine if Ashli had been black and Byrd white.
But, murder an unarmed conservative and DC thugs, goons, perverts, FBI and 'intelligence' filth stand up cheer and want the killer to be promoted and showered with cash. Liz Cheney would spit on Ashli Babbitt's dead body if she had been there...
These are the same sh*ts who have decided Trump's choices don't meet their 'high standards' (meaning our people don't have a D by their names.)
Fire these people Vivek. Fire these people Elon...and jail the cop and his accomplishers...
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