Posted on 07/04/2021 4:11:05 PM PDT by thegagline
The Acting House Sergeant at Arms appeared before a House committee and appears to have named Ashli Babbitt’s shooter.
Timothy Blodgett, in an exchange with Rep. Herrera-Buetler during a hearing on Jan. 6 that appeared on C-SPAN, seems to have casually dropped the name.
“The situation where you discussed, where Officer [Byrd] was at the door when Ms. Babbitt was shot, it was our Sergeant at Arms employee who rendered the aid.”
It is interesting that Blodgett names an “Officer Byrd” in the context of Ashli Babbitt’s shooting. An African-American Lieutenant Mike Byrd was reported by Roll Call as having once left his service weapon in a bathroom in 2019.
“A U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant left his service weapon in a bathroom Monday night and the unattended gun was discovered later by another Capitol Police officer,” Roll Call reported.
“After the House adjourned on Monday, Lt. Mike Byrd left his Glock 22 in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center complex, according to sources familiar with the incident,” the report said. “Byrd is the commander of the House Chambers section of the Capitol Police and was on the job Tuesday and Wednesday.”
“Byrd addressed the incident at Tuesday morning’s officer roll call and, according to sources, told fellow officers that he ‘will be treated differently’ because of his rank as a lieutenant,” the report added. “It was not clear what exactly the lieutenant meant by the comment.”
The New York Times reported more information about the unidentified shooter in January, who called him a “lieutenant” and a “veteran officer.” He was not charged for excessive force or for negligence after shooting the unarmed woman. As far as the unidentified police officer is concerned, he is reportedly in hiding. The Capitol Police is directly supervised by the U.S. Congress, and is thus immune from subpoena.
“More than six weeks after Babbitt succumbed to a single gunshot wound to the upper chest, authorities are keeping secret the identity of the officer who fired the fatal round,” Real Clear Investigations’ Paul Sperry noted. “They won’t release his name, and the major news media aren’t clamoring for it, in stark contrast to other high-profile police shootings of unarmed civilians.”
“The officer who opened fire on Babbitt holds the rank of lieutenant and is a longtime veteran of the force who worked protective detail in the Speaker’s Lobby, a highly restricted area behind the House chamber, sources say,” Sperry notes. “An African-American, he was put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation led by the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, which shares jurisdiction with the Capitol Police. The Justice Department is also involved in the inquiry.”
In April, the Biden Department of Justice dropped all charges related to an unidentified Capitol police officer’s shooting of Ashli Babbitt.
The unnamed capitol officer held aloft .40-caliber Glock handgun and pointed it at Babbitt, while Sullivan shouts repeatedly that “there is a gun.” The officer shoots her after about 15 seconds, while police officers look on without intervening. The video can be watched below and the incident begins about 45 minutes in (caution: graphic):
Absolutely. In the video it looks as if it was well-rehearsed.
Pelosi needed a fatality to cement the "white insurrection" thing to redirect America's collective attention from the vote fraud. Tad simplified but did it work or not? And they've saved the flunky who got away with murder. Slave Dude, if you're killing citizens for the sake of a dominating ice cream addicted mistress from San Fran don't wear distinctive jewelry and suit styles. Byrd you are totally busted. I hear Cancun is still nice.
No kidding - I am tempted to use use words unacceptable to this forum to describe your reptillan lack of ethics, morality or conscience. Your type fits more readily with Antifa or BLM and you need to return to your bretheren on DU.
“My gripe is only one person got shot.”
I guess the Trump supporters, after having the election stolen from them can say something like: “aww shucks, next time we’ll try harder”.
By the way, do you think the election was stolen from Trump?
Maybe I’ve watched too many violent movies and expect massive amounts of blood to be pouring out of a gunshot victim, but to actually see Ashli Babbitt shot in the neck with little to no blood loss just seems incredulous.
I've seen that look that she had in her eyes many times before and it can't be faked.
That paycheck goes somewhere. Find him.
The Capitol Police is directly supervised by the U.S. Congress, and is thus immune from subpoena.
Even for murder?
It’s amazing to me that there are actually people (like you) who believe stuff like the January 6th incident, the moon landing, and mass-shootings are staged. How do you come to these conclusions?
I think her shooting was an accident. Lt. Mike Byrd is a complete f**kup and always has been. He should be charged and sent to trial.
No it’s always surprising. Same for people hit in the leg femoral - little to no chance if not recognized fast. We are tough yet still fragile at many points.
I’ve seen many of your posts. Please keep up the good thoughts. That is the source of this site’s power.
“The unnamed capitol officer held aloft .40-caliber Glock handgun and pointed it at Babbitt, while Sullivan shouts repeatedly that “there is a gun.” The officer shoots her after about 15 seconds, while police officers look on without intervening.”
So who is “Sullivan”, refenced in the article? Is he the BLM/Antifa operative that entered the Capitol, took lots of video, and seemed to egg on the crowd? If he was shouting “gun, gun”, was he warning people about Lt. Byrd, who in some video appears to have been leveling a handgun, or, was Sullivan trying to get Lt. Byrd to believe the crowd was armed? If “Sullivan” is who I think, he sure reeks of agent provocateur, trying to escalate the situation.
I’ve heard that. To incite us to insurrection
OKAY! BLAH! BLAH BLAH! Where is it written that this vermin is allowed the power to kill an unarmed citizen?
having had direct interaction with some of them... Frankly, I believe you are being TOO kind. NO OFFENSE!
>> How do you come to these conclusions?
So you don’t know how I arrive at the conclusions you ridicule.
And you’d rather have Ashli be a murder victim than an actress?
Using your logic it would have been OK for the vets coming back from WWII to just not have fought back at the battle of Athens.
See my post 45. As an expert in seeing people be shot, can you confirm that gunshot victims shot in the back don’t bleed out?
I just find it strange Ashli had so little blood loss. I guess as you say, I’ve seen too many Bruce Willis movies.
Neck not back.
This we know. He is a black man that shot and murdered an unarmed
White woman. He is being protected because of his race.
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