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Capitol Police officer 'didn't have a choice' in shooting Babbitt, GOP congressman says
Fox News ^ | 7 Jan 2021 | Morgan Phillips

Posted on 01/07/2021 12:32:38 PM PST by Magnatron

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To: Hot Tabasco

Yes, you’re wrong. She was shot and fell back almost at the feet of one officer who then immediately pointed his rifle at the door because the instantaneous reaction was that there was an “active shooter.”


341 posted on 01/08/2021 6:28:05 AM PST by Avalon Memories (I literally hate Democrats for what they're doing to our country -- attempting to turn it Communist)
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To: Magnatron

Kyle Rittenhouse didnt have a choice but look what he’s been charged with.


342 posted on 01/08/2021 6:38:34 AM PST by texanyankee
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To: Lagmeister

Do you remember when a senator (I believe) was accosted while in an elevator and BLM/ANTIFA people screamed at him/her for minutes? No one broke that up or even came to the senator’s defense. I don’t recall who the senator was.


343 posted on 01/08/2021 6:49:48 AM PST by Avalon Memories (I literally hate Democrats for what they're doing to our country -- attempting to turn it Communist)
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To: Magnatron

Hey, all of you from Oklahoma, when you read this, understand that Mullen will let you be shot down in cold blood without any objection what-so-ever. Feeling safer now? Primary the lousy SOB, never forget.


344 posted on 01/08/2021 7:02:27 AM PST by Kalam (The Qonjurer)
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To: Magnatron

Bullshit!


345 posted on 01/08/2021 7:05:35 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Kalam

I am currently a customer of Mullin’s plumbing company with a service plan for my septic system. After reading this thread & checking the linked videos of this shooting, I believe I will end my business relationship with his company. I am not in his Congressional District so I can’t withdraw my vote.


346 posted on 01/08/2021 7:10:31 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Darteaus94025

>> What weapon did she have? Gun? Knife?

Long hair. She had long hair.


347 posted on 01/08/2021 7:40:29 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: T-Bird45

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I believe I will end my business relationship with his company. I am not in his Congressional District so I can’t withdraw my vote.
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We do what we can.


348 posted on 01/08/2021 7:55:15 AM PST by Kalam (The Qonjurer)
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To: cuban leaf
...I would have been within my rights to shoot the one illegally climbing and crashing through the broken window. And I would have shot to kill.

This was not your home. This was a public building during a protest. In this case, there was a police presence who could have simply grabbed her and pulled her to the ground -- as has been done in any number of other protests around the country.

I’m not saying he should have done it. I’m saying that as a human being - not a machine - it is reasonable to do what he did.

He was supposedly a trained officer of the law. That makes him somewhat of a machine who is trained to react appropriately in tense situations. It is absolutely NOT reasonable what he did.

349 posted on 01/08/2021 8:03:20 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Avalon Memories
She was shot and fell back almost at the feet of one officer

Look closely at this video. At the time the girl was shot, there were no LEO's at the top of the stairs. It wasn't until she hit the floor then a few seconds later did we then see the first of the officers attempting to reach the top of the stairs.......

The resistance video

350 posted on 01/08/2021 8:13:26 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Yo-Yo
"Yesterday did prove one thing, though. It showed that — as long as the corpse isn't black — the police can kill a protester without triggering a night of arson-fueled riots in every major city."
351 posted on 01/08/2021 8:14:04 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: Magnatron

Yes. I get all that. There is still so much that we don’t know about the shooter so we’ll see. I’m basing my opinion on what I saw in the videos and shared that opinion here. I still stand by it, but new information could change that opinion.

Fact is, in such a unique event it is difficult to successfully prosecute someone that does what this guy did. And I have mixed emotions about whether what he did was morally right. Or legally, frankly. But I think the videos give enough evidence to prevent a successful prosecution for anything other than, maybe, involuntary manslaughter.

But that is my opinion with the facts we currently know.


352 posted on 01/08/2021 8:55:51 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Magnatron

What an asswipe. It violated every law and court ruling on use of force.
She was unarmed and presented no immediate threat to anyone.
The swat officers right behind her saw no deadly threat.
Now to the officer. He went immediately to deadly force. No verbal warning, no pepper spray, no taser, no baton, no attempt to make an arrest...nothing. And last but not least, no bodycam or recording device.

Believe it or not, Federal officers must operate under the same rules as every other officer in America. Any city officer would be facing arrest on a murder charge.


353 posted on 01/08/2021 9:35:21 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: DesertRhino

What happened to “back the blue?”

Also, cops don’t face murder charges during riots.


354 posted on 01/08/2021 9:51:46 AM PST by PoeToaster
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To: Magnatron

Black man/woman/it/? shooting unarmed woman in Capitol Bldg? He was possibly not a cop/guard? How about maybe a congressit?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347076676342185984


355 posted on 01/08/2021 11:12:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: freeagle

What was that police guy doing by signaling with a thumbs up after the shoot?

I didn’t see a single police guy grab a radio and call for medical help, but yet they were all yelling at everyone to back up (away from the victim) AND the Chief of Cap Police said officers immediately rendered aid. . .like HECK they did.


356 posted on 01/08/2021 1:16:02 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: frank ballenger

And news reporting a murder investigation has started for the police guy, but NO murder investigation for the murdered victim by the Cap police.

An “Investigation” supposedly started for the murder of the woman, but NO STATEMENT about it being a murder investigation.

Lairs all.


357 posted on 01/08/2021 1:20:34 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: Magnatron

Absolutely

Another RINO traitor


358 posted on 01/08/2021 1:22:50 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: Magnatron

His comments are sickening.


359 posted on 01/08/2021 1:33:08 PM PST by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: Magnatron

Absolutely!


360 posted on 01/08/2021 1:43:23 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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