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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

Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said he witnessed the moment a police officer shot a woman inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and insisted the officer had no other choice.

A pro-Trump mob of rioters rammed their way into the Capitol Wednesday as Congress held a joint session to certify the election results, sending lawmakers into hiding.

Video shows a group attempting to force itself into the House chamber, where lawmakers were present. As protesters were breaking glass on the doors that kept them out to force their way through, a law enforcement officer fired a shot. One woman, Ashli Babbitt, was struck by a bullet and later died.

"When they broke the glass in the back, the [police] lieutenant that was there, him and I already had multiple conversations prior to this, and he didn't have a choice at that time," Mullin told ABC News' George Stephanapoulos on "Good Morning America" Thursday.

"The mob was going to come through the door, there was a lot of members and staff that were in danger at the time. And when he [drew] his weapon, that's a decision that's very hard for anyone to make, and, once you draw your weapon like that, you have to defend yourself with deadly force."

Mullin said police "showed a lot of restraint" and "did the best they could."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: ashli; babbitt; banglist; capitol; markwaynemullin; murderer; rally
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I don't use a lot of foul language on this site, but...

F-U Mullin!

This was cold-blooded MURDER, nothing less. The GOP is dead to me, except only as I can use my registration to wreck havoc on primary candidates.

1 posted on 01/07/2021 12:32:38 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Didn’t have a choice my ass......


2 posted on 01/07/2021 12:33:52 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Magnatron

What weapon did she have? Gun? Knife?


3 posted on 01/07/2021 12:33:57 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Magnatron

The Congressman is either an evil asshole or an uninformed idiot who hasn’t seen the videos.

This was an execution.


4 posted on 01/07/2021 12:34:27 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Darteaus94025

A nice smile.


5 posted on 01/07/2021 12:34:42 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: wardamneagle

Hope someone applies the same logic with him someday.


6 posted on 01/07/2021 12:34:44 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Magnatron

Absolute BS, there was no lethal threat.

Any one else would be charged.


7 posted on 01/07/2021 12:34:52 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin
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To: Magnatron

there was a choice when the several Antifa
and Pelosi-led helmeted perps surrounded the
woman, constrained her, tapped the criminal
who would execute her, and braced.

there was another choice when the shooter aimed,
paused, reaimed, paused, waited, and shot.

all of them are culpable and on tape,
and ONLY the DO”J” would ignore it,
probably having set it up.


8 posted on 01/07/2021 12:35:35 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: wardamneagle

Yeah, no kidding


9 posted on 01/07/2021 12:35:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

[Absolute BS, there was no lethal threat.]

I agree


10 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Magnatron

This whole episode has demonstrated just how out of touch and cowardly our representatives are. They were literally scared to death. Cowards all.


11 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:29 PM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America!)
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BULL!

Nobody was at risk in this protest.

He set out to kill a Trump supporter.

12 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:29 PM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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The angelic black heroes with two feet long arrest record printouts and a knife or a gun in hand were killed and this set off “justified” riots (”mostly peaceful” before the looting and burning). Fully supported by the media “the longstanding American right of protest against wrongdoing.”

But somehow an UNARMED woman who supported Trump was a “threat” who deserved to be murdered by a cop?


13 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:44 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Darteaus94025
What weapon did she have? Gun? Knife?

Her right to vote. Although she was disarmed on Nov 3.
14 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:47 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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Capitol Police officer 'didn't have a choice' in shooting Babbitt, GOP congressman says

Did he see the officers who were fully armed and only a few steps behind her? Apparently they didn't think she posed a risk.

15 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:49 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: Magnatron

This video https://populist.press/new-angle-shows-moment-officer-shot-and-killed-air-force-veteran/ shows a better angle of what transpired.


16 posted on 01/07/2021 12:36:50 PM PST by freeagle
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I’m sorry, but BS. We saw all the officers with long guns with the group..


17 posted on 01/07/2021 12:37:30 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Magnatron

It’s a good thing I spent years and years of my life in school. I obtained two grad degrees and with all I learned I feel I can give this statement the eloquent response it warrants.

BULLCHIT.


18 posted on 01/07/2021 12:37:46 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Magnatron

It’s a good thing I spent years and years of my life in school. I obtained two grad degrees and with all I learned I feel I can give this statement the eloquent response it warrants.

BULLCHIT.


19 posted on 01/07/2021 12:37:49 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Magnatron

This is a bald faced lie. The shooter was hiding in waiting with gun drawn. When the young woman began climbing through a high window he walked toward her with gun drawn and shot her at point blank range. Murder!
At no time was he endangered. He willfully and with malice of forethought shot and killed an unarmed woman who was completely immobilized by her position in the window.


20 posted on 01/07/2021 12:37:50 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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