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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: RummyChick

She wasn’t killed by a policeman or policewoman. 🙄


61 posted on 01/06/2021 7:57:18 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: SoConPubbie

Well said.

We may be screwed but we will fight unlike these other people who cower in their homes because of a virus that is 99.8% recoverable. I learned so much about posters back in March and the “15 Days to flatten the curve” then the additional 30 days that turned into 10 months.

And fuckin posters, not only abiding by but promoting this bullshit ever single day regardless of the rights that are being pummeled and annililated just so they can “feel safe” from a fuckin virus that has a 99.8% recovery rate while lockdowns decimate the middle class.

More than half of this country disgusts me.

Way more than half of the posters on this board disgust me.I knew we were done once the majority of this site fell for the plandemic.

All that “integrity”, “class”, “dignity” means nothing as we lose our country.A coup happened and many still care only about WEAR A MASK, SOCIALIST DISTANCE, DON’T CELEBRATE HOLIDAYS. Ugh. I hate stupid people and we have MORE than our share.


62 posted on 01/06/2021 7:57:26 PM PST by Twink
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To: RummyChick

Eat it.


63 posted on 01/06/2021 7:59:04 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Glide Plane

Whotta POS she is.


64 posted on 01/06/2021 7:59:48 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: elbook
How the hell did this bunch (yellowshirt beard guy has anarchy tats on his hands) every get IN to the Capitol building ??? ... Sounds very strange - almost contrived ....

Yes, it does.

The police helped them. (short video)

65 posted on 01/06/2021 8:00:43 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: Glide Plane

Whotta maroon. Whotta ta-ra-ra-goon-di-yay she is...


66 posted on 01/06/2021 8:01:29 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

TRUMP LIVES MATTER!


67 posted on 01/06/2021 8:06:00 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: eastsider

No way. That is my German Shepherd. Far too buff for a thin small Malinois...and far too much black.


68 posted on 01/06/2021 8:06:59 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: kiryandil

Yes indeed. You summed it up nicely. Well done.


69 posted on 01/06/2021 8:36:10 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: inchworm

She was unarmed. I weep for this Patriot. Some Cops get over excited and shoot too fast. He/She needs another profession. The vast majority of officers were very professional and should be applauded. I swear the hypocrisy from the Media is just sickening. Btw neither the Capitol or private property should be destroyed/looted/burned etc. but our Federal buildings are not sacred temples, Id rather see a few windows broken out of a Gov. building than private homes and businesses damaged. To me private property and businesses and the freedom to safely operate and live in them is what America is all about. Amen


70 posted on 01/06/2021 8:50:43 PM PST by deanking
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To: RummyChick; ebb tide; Lurkinanloomin

As you’ve suggested RummyChick, by all that is right and good in this world, this situation should have ended in arrests, not in violence or death.

Some are catching a strong whiff of the basest, most amoral origins for what happened today, a lá “Pelosi SS” (if one focuses solely on the circumstances of the shooting), and/or a modern-day Reichstag fire (if one suspects AntiFa coolly coordinated their activities in advance with the Democrats and the Capitol Police):

Consider with what kid gloves female invaders were treated in 2018:

Protesters tarnish Kavanaugh vote - Washington Times

m.washingtontimes.com

Hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol steps Saturday afternoon, and more than a dozen made it into the Senate chamber where they shouted at senators voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

“I do not consent!” shouted one protester.

Others were more personal.

“You’re a coward Flake, you’re a total coward,” one man in a white sweatshirt yelled at Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who’d withheld his support for the nomination until the last day.

And a young man shouted “Texas will remember,” at Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who’s up for re-election next month. As the young man shouted, the older woman with him grabbed his shirt and dragged him out of his seat.

Police said 14 protesters were arrested from within the chamber, and 150 people were arrested outside the Capitol, including from the steps, where they had broken through a police line and started a sit-in.

Betty Baumgertner came to the District from a Virginia suburb to voice her concerns about Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

“It makes me sad, actually, how things have changed in that we are not exactly voting for the person’s integrity to me it’s more political, which it should never be for the Supreme Court,” she said.

There were a few supporters of President Trump and Judge Kavanaugh mixed in the crowd, but they were overwhelmingly outnumbered by ‘resistance’ activists.

Tracy Thompson and her husband came from Georgia to the District for their 20th wedding anniversary, but decided to attend the protest.

“They are so many and we are so few,” she said. “I felt like it’s our right too — I have opinions too and I wanted to represent another side.”

Protests have been ongoing throughout the Capitol grounds and Senate office buildings over the past few weeks since Christine Blasey Ford came forward with her allegation of sexual misconduct against the president’s nominee.

Roughly 100 people were arrested on Friday ahead of the Senate’s procedural vote moving forward on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.


71 posted on 01/06/2021 8:54:34 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: elbook

In the third video you can clearly see she was climbing in a side window at a door.

That said, complete and unwarranted action on the part of the panicked police. Boring job in the Capital, so they over-reacted. The type of over- reaction I expect to see if TSA is ever armed (Gawd forbid).


72 posted on 01/06/2021 8:55:06 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: conservative98

She knows what it means
Commander in Chief

NEVER FORGET
We’ll never forget you


73 posted on 01/06/2021 8:56:57 PM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: RummyChick

Why say RIP after you insult her?

You’re a ####ing crybaby who freaked the #### out over covid.

Now you insult this woman?

How many years did you serve?

Some of the garbage on this board needs to be thrown out


74 posted on 01/06/2021 9:12:05 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

I dont agree with what she did but I can still wish her to RIP

Btw, the person that really got into her head now has a doozy of a conspiracy up at the moment on Parler.


75 posted on 01/06/2021 9:16:01 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: ought-six

Who killed her! She should get a grand funeral—Trump should attend.


76 posted on 01/06/2021 9:58:19 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Codeflier

to your post...

I SAY, AMEN 3X...

BEAWARE, the person is a trouble maker...

MY OPINION...


77 posted on 01/06/2021 10:50:17 PM PST by haircutter (, )
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To: conservative98

When Crispus Attucks was killed the soldiers were tried. Will this woman’s murderer even be identified?


78 posted on 01/06/2021 11:24:08 PM PST by Nadial
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To: RummyChick

“I am 100 percent against what these people did. It’s what Antifa does. It’s what BLM does.

You want to wave flags and protest..Fine.

But this was insane.”

Insane was climbing the cliffs of Omaha Beach into German machinegun fire.

Insane was getting your head chopped off for refusing to worship Caesar.

Insane is a young man jumping into a frozen river to save an old man.

Insane was firing on British regulars on Lexington Green.
Man I bet you’d have given them stupid Minutemen a piece of your mind.

Anyone risking anything for your sake would be insane.


79 posted on 01/06/2021 11:52:33 PM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’m sure you’re right, of course ... the ears are far to stubby to be a noble Malinois : )


80 posted on 01/07/2021 5:06:39 AM PST by eastsider
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