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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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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Yeah, now white women, too.

But first, the race-baiters and BLM need to raise a stink, and the DNCMedia has to push stories about the racist Police and how “Da Man” hates people of color.

Then the DOJ has no choice but to start.


41 posted on 04/14/2021 11:13:45 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: lightman

Looks like the government has declared open season on white conservatives.


42 posted on 04/14/2021 11:14:42 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: semimojo

Only those in government can publicly shoot some unarmed person to death and walk free with zero charges.


43 posted on 04/14/2021 11:17:36 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: semimojo

What’s the guys name who shot the unarmed woman to death?


44 posted on 04/14/2021 11:20:23 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: semimojo

Celebrate diversity, be vibrant.

Burn the closest Ikea, rampage through convenience stores and smash all the malt liquor.


45 posted on 04/14/2021 11:22:30 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Kickbacks and graft for oligarchs, free crack and hookers for oligarch's children is infrastructure )
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To: semimojo

I’m rioting and looting LL Bean and UGG boots.


46 posted on 04/14/2021 11:22:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: semimojo

Well, information on the Capitol Police Special Agent has come out. No charges, of course. Imagine if Chauvin simple had been deemed innocent before any evidence had even been uncovered. Would there be any building left standing in Minneapolis?

The whole Jan. 6th fraud absolutely stinks to high heaven. And Grandma Nan is the cadaver at the heart of that stench. Only she could have set up this kind of “False Flag” fraud. Only she could give the order to the Capital Police to stand down and let the Trump supporters into the Capitol building. Her minions at CNN and MSNBC did her bidding by paying an ANTIFA activist to film the “insurrection.” It was a set up from the beginning, planned for weeks to destroy the presentation of the massive amount of evidence of vote and election fraud that stole the 2020 election.

If there is anything more important that to expose this crime, what is essentially the greatest political crime this century so far out of many. I am calling out to Project Veritas, to the Breitbart organization to investigate this fraud, if they aren’t already doing so.

Project Veritas is working, we see it with their exposes of CNN and Planned Parenthood. They must realize that this massive “Reichstag Fire” fraud is the single most serious threat to the future of this country, and they need to blow it wide open. I hope many here will agree.


47 posted on 04/14/2021 11:24:23 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: semimojo

I hope state and local LE, especially in the states where they’ve allowed themselves to be used to harass fellow citizens over WuFlu beefs, take note of this.

Deep State doesn’t need or want you.

Pi$$ off the only people who have your backs at your professional peril.


48 posted on 04/14/2021 11:26:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: semimojo

I think this is the wrong move, but it does seem to be at least something definitive about it not being a congressman that did it. The whole cufflinks stuff to me seemed a pretty conspiracy goofy.


49 posted on 04/14/2021 11:27:02 AM PDT by Shadylake
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To: semimojo
...second-guessing the actions of an officer during the violent and chaotic day would have been a challenge.

What a double standard. In this case, we mustn't "second-guess" a police office during a moment of "chaos".

50 posted on 04/14/2021 11:28:54 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Misplaced Texan

Only if it is a mostly peaceful riot...


51 posted on 04/14/2021 11:37:35 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Lift the rim. You’re not that good a shot.)
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To: semimojo

Of course not (/s), but everyone there was/is a terrorist
without even a show trial like China has. (and like we do
now)


52 posted on 04/14/2021 11:39:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: semimojo

And whites will start rioting in 3..2..1... oh, wait, we/they don’t.


53 posted on 04/14/2021 11:43:08 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: lightman

First of all, I don’t think it’s “David Bailey,” whose name has been floating around. Secondly, I don’t even think he’s black...he didn’t look it in the video that I saw. He looked like an older white man in a nice suit (a lot like a Congressman), and furthermore, I don’t think he was even a cop. The whole scene was very unprofessional, there were a number of real cops all around, on both sides of the window, who didn’t seem particularly upset, and, according to some people here, his manner of shooting was not professional, because he “leaned into” the shot.

I think they’re covering up something much worse than an unjustified shooting by a law officer.


54 posted on 04/14/2021 11:46:28 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

“I don’t even think he’s black...he didn’t look it in the video that I saw. He looked like an older white man in a nice suit (a lot like a Congressman), and furthermore, I don’t think he was even a cop.”

Babbitt’s family intends to sue so I suppose his identity will have to be revealed sooner or later.


55 posted on 04/14/2021 11:54:57 AM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: thegagline

You’re just now figuring that out??


56 posted on 04/14/2021 12:20:32 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: semimojo

This will never, ever be closed until Ashli’s killer is exposed and charge in both criminal and civil courtsl as well as his protectors and their motives.


57 posted on 04/14/2021 12:20:41 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: not_under_duress

Yup

Pretty hard to have a trial with no evidence or crime.

No crisis actor willing to risk jail for a theatrical performance .

This no trial proves to me it was a false flag to avert the vote fraud.


58 posted on 04/14/2021 12:47:51 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 78 to 84 )
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To: cuz1961

To stop the examination and debate, stop alternate delegates from voting trump into office.

A pelosi plot you might say.


59 posted on 04/14/2021 12:52:57 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 78 to 84 )
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To: semimojo

No, we never second guess police officers. Glad the story nails that down.


60 posted on 04/14/2021 1:17:14 PM PDT by sphinx
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