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):
People there could spot the antifa in MAGA hats.
When all is said and done there needs to be heads on pikes for what was allowed to happen.
Prove the crime? I’ve seen John Wayne movies, but never really shoots anyone. It just looks like he does. And thats whats going on here!
Show me the hospital she was taken to?
Give me the name of the doctor that examined her?
What ballistic round was used to “kill her” so we can match the assassins gun?
Where was the wound? Neck? Back?
Where is the autopsy report?
Where is the death certificate?
Where was her milatary funeral?
All these questions will help settle the so called crime. But no one is jnterested in looking into them. Oh and why is she the only Trump supporter in a sea of ANTIFA members in the room dressed as Trump supporters? Hmmmm.. That dog dont hunt, and too many people are being sucked down the Babbitt hole!
...so they deserved to die. No thanks!
This has always been obvious to some.
;^)
I don’t think this is a racial thing. This is a Deep State thing.
Yes.
Why does the coroner claim she was shot in the shoulder?
Putin asking some provocative questions that should give Americans goosebumbs. Americans in the future may see the inside of a real concentration camp not too far from where they live. Stolen elections have dire consequences.
Is there something you know and we don’t?
Is there something you know and we don’t?
Trump is not the loser — the American people are.
I remember thinking, at the time, is this guy nuts to be firing into a crowd of people like that. To just stick your hand out a broken window and fire is just nuts. Who does that?
I told my hubby about the people being held without being charged and his response was: "What about habeous (sp?) corpus? Apparently, not applicable to Trump supporters. Also, sorry for the spelling errors, but can't find the actual spelling for that particular word.
MANY, MANY WITNESSES that are COWARDS for not coming forth with the TRUTH!!!
WTH is he holding in his other hand???
What is the DANDY KILLER holding in his other hand??
From what I've been told, it's some sort of medical device that is mounted under seats in the House chambers. I can't remember if it's a defrib unit or a gas mask.
Bryd is a POS that needs be called to account. It's pretty much no longer a hypothesis that he was the killer. Even Ashli's family attorney has come forward to name him as the lead suspect.
“Why didn’t the cops behind her not give her CPR?”
I’m not saying it was staged or that Babbitt wasn’t really shot, but there is so much wrong in that video. Not only no CPR, no real first aid at all. Nobody does anything. Then when they removed her they carried her down a set of stairs like a sack of potatoes. In any normal scenario they would have been holding manual spine immobilization, applying pressure to wound, and then back boarded her to get out of there. Nobody in that big group of people, including police, apparently had any knowledge of emergency medicine. The whole situation is just...wrong.
“I guess she was shot in the throat.”
From the article:
“More than six weeks after Babbitt succumbed to a single gunshot wound to the upper chest,”
There was very little blood visible in the close up videos, nothing like a spurting carotid artery.
“Oh and why is she the only Trump supporter in a sea of ANTIFA members in the room dressed as Trump supporters?”
In my mind what you said is absolutely indisputable. Those people with her are antifa. I questioned her true ideology at one point here on FR and got some serious push back. There appear to be file images of her in MAGA gear, and her family says she was a Trump supporter, so I guess she was. It sure doesn’t look right, though.
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