Rep. Bennie Thompson, right, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6.” But in his panel's extensive opening hearing, there was no mention of the killing of Ashli Babbitt.
Posted on 08/05/2021 8:45:55 AM PDT by yoe
Kicking off the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6,” calling it “a scene of violence in the citadel of democracy.”
But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot.
This omission angered Babbitt’s family and a number of Republicans who maintain that the Select Committee and the Capitol Police are covering up the circumstances surrounding her death. Questions linger over the shooting, especially whether the officer who fired the fatal shot warned Babbitt to stop before he opened fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, right, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6.” But in his panel's extensive opening hearing, there was no mention of the killing of Ashli Babbitt.
Murder one.
What’s one white woman being killed by a black cop?
Ashli Babbitt, shown with husband Aaron, was the victim of an
ambush without warning, the family's lawyer says.
It’s much larger than that?
Some people think that the murder of Ashli Babbitt was an attempt turn the visit into a riot.
No mention of the killing of Ashli Babbitt.
The things you can get away with while not being white if she was black it would be a 23/7/365 story.
Now tell me about all that racism business people talk about.
If the cop was a store owner in a store under attack by looters, that store owner would be in a penitentiary now.
The killer was “lying in wait.”
It was an execution.
So true :(
Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tags.
“Questions linger over the shooting, especially whether the officer who fired the fatal shot warned Babbitt to stop before he opened fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building”
The video I saw had her several feet back from the door.
The people inside almost certainly would asked that the attack on the door cease.
The riot laws I’ve seen say that people should leave the scene if they wish to avoid getting charged.
And will these handpicked Republican panelists demand the facts of Ashli's murder be made known?
Not on your life.
This sht that the cop called her out and warned her is bs. I’ve seen the video, she was shot down like a dog with no warning at all.
“The investigation further determined that Ms. Babbitt was among a mob of people that entered the Capitol building and gained access to a hallway outside “Speaker’s Lobby,” which leads to the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. At the time, the USCP was evacuating Members from the Chamber, which the mob was trying to enter from multiple doorways. USCP officers used furniture to barricade a set of glass doors separating the hallway and Speaker’s Lobby to try and stop the mob from entering the Speaker’s Lobby and the Chamber, and three officers positioned themselves between the doors and the mob. Members of the mob attempted to break through the doors by striking them and breaking the glass with their hands, flagpoles, helmets, and other objects. Eventually, the three USCP officers positioned outside the doors were forced to evacuate. As members of the mob continued to strike the glass doors, Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out. An officer inside the Speaker’s Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor. A USCP emergency response team, which had begun making its way into the hallway to try and subdue the mob, administered aid to Ms. Babbitt, who was transported to Washington Hospital Center, where she succumbed to her injuries.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/department-justice-closes-investigation-death-ashli-babbitt
It wasn't a defensive shot at all. The POS was "beading in" to pick her off in cold blood.
He's a fkn murderer - and we have the video.
The only way Babbitt was every going to get mentioned was if there were Republicans on the committee. McCarthy should have known that.
Replace “mob” with “protestors.”
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