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Prosecutors: No charges for officer in Capitol riot shooting
AP ^ | 4/14/2021 | ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Posted on 04/14/2021 10:51:12 AM PDT by semimojo

Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, 35, an Air Force veteran from San Diego. The Justice Department’s decision, though expected, officially closes out the investigation.

Prosecutors said they had reviewed video of the shooting, along with statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses, examined physical evidence from the scene and reviewed the autopsy results...

The Justice Department does not bring criminal charges in most police shootings it investigates in part because of the high burden for prosecution. Criminal charges were not expected in this case because videos of the shooting show Babbitt encroaching into a prohibited space, and second-guessing the actions of an officer during the violent and chaotic day would have been a challenge.

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To: semimojo

“Based on that investigation, officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution,” the department said in a statement.

“Oh, and besides, the victim was white.”


21 posted on 04/14/2021 10:57:26 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2 )
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To: semimojo

SAY HIS NAME


22 posted on 04/14/2021 10:57:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: semimojo

Pelosi needed a shooting and killing to make this look like an armed insurgence. This was Pelosi’s fall guy, patsy. We will never know who he is .... part of their agreement. THERE AS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO WILFULLY SHOOT AND KILL THIS LADY. There is a reason Pelosi kept the walls up and thousands of guard in the streets... She was scared people would do what should be done.


23 posted on 04/14/2021 10:58:25 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: semimojo

And, didn’t the Antifa instigator, who helped Ashli to the window, then ran and changed clothes....go scott free?


24 posted on 04/14/2021 10:58:53 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: CaptainK

Deceased in MN was moving away from LEO. Ashli was “advancing” into a secured area. OR some BS they may or may not spew. Obviously they don’t feel they need to provide any manner of justification.


25 posted on 04/14/2021 10:59:30 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: lightman

Looks black to me:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-capitol/


26 posted on 04/14/2021 10:59:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: CaptainK
What’s the difference between this case and the cop in Minnesota who was just charged with second degree manslaughter?

Easy.

The Capitol officer *intended to kill Asley Babbit*.

The Minnesota officer did not intend to kill the person she shot. She intended to Taser them.

27 posted on 04/14/2021 10:59:52 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: semimojo
and second-guessing the actions of an officer during the violent and chaotic day would have been a challenge.

Now that is rich coming from the cop hating AP.

28 posted on 04/14/2021 11:00:07 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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Wonder why we know he names of ALL other cops involved in duty shootings?....this was no surprise...no charges could have been stated on day of shooting...BS


29 posted on 04/14/2021 11:00:37 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: glimmerman70

Sure. That’s heavy. Make sure we pick up hand truck before we go to the HVAC department.


30 posted on 04/14/2021 11:00:50 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: semimojo

She jess one o’ dem wypipo....she doan madder


31 posted on 04/14/2021 11:01:08 AM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: Jane Long

Frankly all around her and who lead the way could be charged. It’s like 2 guys who enter a grocery store with the intent to rob it and one of them gets shot by the store owner or accidently by his partner, etc. The other perp can be charged in the death since it occurred in a crime to which he was a party of.


32 posted on 04/14/2021 11:01:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: lightman

http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/


33 posted on 04/14/2021 11:01:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: semimojo

There is no justice in this country.

She could have been pushed out of that window with one hand.

How was she a danger that needed to be shot?

Why are we paying all these lawyers and judges?

Just ask the Democrat Party for their ruling.


34 posted on 04/14/2021 11:01:55 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: semimojo

No part of the U.S. government is trust worthy.

5.56mm


35 posted on 04/14/2021 11:02:35 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: semimojo

Anyone who still supports the Democrat Party has a criminal heart.


36 posted on 04/14/2021 11:02:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: semimojo

The video I saw had Ashly outside the glass door when the officer shot through the glass and dropped her.


37 posted on 04/14/2021 11:06:00 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Alas Babylon!

Or female. Is this the same standard used in Minnesota?


38 posted on 04/14/2021 11:06:30 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ConservativeInPA

Sweet. We can take my truck. Unreal that there are riots all over for criminals getting killed while resisting. Whether it’s accidental or not. But this guy gets away with shooting this white women veteran and no charges and not naming the shooter to protect him. I would wager he maybe black. And there will be no riots from the “red neck supremacists”. This will go away like the Boulder shootings.


39 posted on 04/14/2021 11:07:06 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: semimojo
They call the capital protest an insurrection. When are they going to call all those peaceful protests what they really are?

The news media is a farce, and the reporters writing this drivel need to have a real insurrection come down on their heads.

40 posted on 04/14/2021 11:11:46 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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