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Ashli Babbit, protester killed at Capitol, was Air Force vet from California
NY Post ^ | January 6, 2021 | 8:42pm | By Elizabeth Rosner and Kate Sheehy

Posted on 01/06/2021 6:59:29 PM PST by conservative98

The President Trump supporter killed in the Capitol building Wednesday is an Air Force vet from California who tweeted a day earlier how “nothing will stop us” and “the storm is here.”

Ashli Babbit, who had 14 years in the service and did four tours of duty, was married and lived near San Diego, her husband Aaron told KUSI-TV.

“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” the husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt, told The Post, saying of her daughter-in-law, “She is a Trump supporter.”

Everything is “pretty surreal,” added Aaron’s brother, Justin. “It’s hard, because we haven’t been officially notified.”

The day before she was fatally shot — apparently by Capitol Police, Babbit tweeted, “Nothing will stop us…. they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light.”

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Babbit, who used the Twitter handle CommonAshSense, also retweeted Wednesday morning — a few hours ahead of her and other Trump supporters storming the Capitol — a “MUST BE DONE LIST before Congress meets today.”

It included, “Mike Pence@vp @Mike_Pence must resign & thereafter be charged with TREASON,” and, “Chief Justice John Roberts must RESIGN.”

The rioters were protesting Congress’s impending certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Babbit took a fatal bullet to the chest during the mayhem inside the Capitol.

Video footage captured the sound of the gunshot, and showed the woman crumpling to the floor from multiple angles.

She was apparently shot by Capitol Police, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: airforce; ashlibabbit; electoralcollege; jan6; linwood; maga; patriot; trump; uscapitolshooting; veterans
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To: conservative98

I’m just curious why she thought getting that close to the White House and trying to get inside was a good idea. It’s not surprising that they reacted with lethal force, especially after all of the riots throughout the year. You can’t tell at a glance if someone is intending harm or not, particularly when they’re trying to make their way into a building that is under heavy guard.

It’s so sad, and we clearly lost someone who loved their country. I feel horrible for her family.

If our elections were trustworthy and these judges actually took the evidence of fraud into consideration, she would still be alive.


41 posted on 01/06/2021 7:29:14 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: kiryandil

Unfortunately, all is said and done.

After the siege, everyone caved.

It’s over.

Now Trump has to come up with an exit plan.


42 posted on 01/06/2021 7:30:11 PM PST by RummyChick (1. I blame Kushner. 2. Pence and the firing squad tweet is my favorite absurdity of the election)
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To: RummyChick; central_va
I don’t believe she should have been killed but she did deserve to be arrested as does everyone else that participated in the seige.

I dont believe in it.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams
Our Republic has been destroyed by the Democrats and you are squimish about storming the capital?

How do you suggest this gets resolved?

Sticking your head in the sand and pretending the process is not irreparably broken and hoping that elections still matter?

The Democrats just cheated in the most flagrant manner possible and in every possible way and the Courts and Legislative branch refused to look at the volumonous evidence. And the cherry on this rotten cake is that the majority of the GOP was either too spineless or sold out to the the Chinese or Globalists that they did nothing about it.

So, tell me, when do we do something more than talk?

After they take away our guns?

After they take away our freedom of worship?

After they take away our freedom of speech?

Because now that the Democrats are in control, they are going to do this, and now that they know they can get away with wholesale voting fraud, there will never be a free election again.

So when do you get off your lazy Ass and stand-up and fight?
43 posted on 01/06/2021 7:31:05 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: RummyChick

The fact that your garbage is allowed to be posted on FR is why I never donate. Absolutely disgusting.


44 posted on 01/06/2021 7:31:46 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

I thought it was the Capital Building. And from the video they were allowing people to walk around the floor aimlessly so I don’t understand what the big problem with her was.


45 posted on 01/06/2021 7:32:56 PM PST by conservative98
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To: SoConPubbie

I 100% do not believe in what happened today.

I don’t really think Trump is either. I think what he wanted was a massive sign of support with people on the steps waving their flags.

He did not want an Antifa style siege.

I can’t believe people here are supporting that kind of thing...but hey Don’t put me on the list, FBI.


46 posted on 01/06/2021 7:34:37 PM PST by RummyChick (1. I blame Kushner. 2. Pence and the firing squad tweet is my favorite absurdity of the election)
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To: RummyChick

As you celebrate.


47 posted on 01/06/2021 7:37:05 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: Jrabbit

Celebrate???

What I saw today sickened me.

Plus, I had to listen to the media while I watched it blaming it all on Trump.

This is NOT what Trump wanted and the people HERE who claim it is acceptable and what he would have wanted are just nuts


48 posted on 01/06/2021 7:39:08 PM PST by RummyChick (1. I blame Kushner. 2. Pence and the firing squad tweet is my favorite absurdity of the election)
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To: Jrabbit

Well said.


49 posted on 01/06/2021 7:40:35 PM PST by Twink
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To: RummyChick

I bet she was unarmed


50 posted on 01/06/2021 7:41:52 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: RummyChick

Go to hell!!!!!!


51 posted on 01/06/2021 7:42:24 PM PST by ohioman
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To: ohioman

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922316/posts


52 posted on 01/06/2021 7:45:04 PM PST by RummyChick (1. I blame Kushner. 2. Pence and the firing squad tweet is my favorite absurdity of the election)
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To: inchworm

Good possibility you are right

But when you are storming the Capital trying to get into a barricaded room there is no way for the Police to know that.


53 posted on 01/06/2021 7:46:48 PM PST by RummyChick (1. I blame Kushner. 2. Pence and the firing squad tweet is my favorite absurdity of the election)
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To: RummyChick

In the words of that great American satirist Bugs Bunny, “Shaddup, you ignorant maroon.”


54 posted on 01/06/2021 7:50:18 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: conservative98

Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks


55 posted on 01/06/2021 7:50:29 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: central_va

america was shot at today


56 posted on 01/06/2021 7:52:34 PM PST by aces (and )
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To: Codeflier

Yep. I realized that after reviewing her past comments.

Just another Swamp Toad in the pool.


57 posted on 01/06/2021 7:53:18 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: aces

You just know that she was Antifa. Her MAGA hat was on backwards...//sarcasm


58 posted on 01/06/2021 7:53:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: kiryandil

RummyChick is a Swamp Toad. Best to leave her alone to avoid getting warts from contact with her.


59 posted on 01/06/2021 7:54:49 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: RummyChick

She served her country in uniform.

moron.


60 posted on 01/06/2021 7:55:11 PM PST by GregH
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