Posted on 08/20/2021 5:30:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Capitol police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot on January 6 has reportedly been formally exonerated after the Capitol Police conducted an internal investigation, according to an internal document.
A memo from the commander of the Capitol Police’s Office of Personal Responsibility obtained by NBC News says that “no further action will be taken in this matter” after the officer was exonerated for his use of force, the outlet reported.
There are now no remaining open investigations into Babbitt’s shooting.
In April, the Justice Department announced that it would not pursue criminal charges against the officer, saying that it did not find that the officer had violated any federal laws. The officer’s name has not been made public.
“Officials examined video footage posted on social media, statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses to the events, physical evidence from the scene of the shooting, and the results of an autopsy,” the Justice Department said in an April 14 press release on its decision. “Based on that investigation, officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution.”
Video of the incident showed Babbitt, 35, at the front of a crowd of Trump supporters inside the Capitol near a door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby just outside the House. On the other side, members of Congress were being evacuated. Babbitt is seen being hoisted up by a pair of men to a broken window, at which point the police officer in plain clothes fires one bullet in her direction, and she falls backward and starts bleeding. Babbitt was transported to a hospital, where she died later.
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And one of those heavily armed riots cops was cross-eyed.
Also a SWAT team had stood by while the windows in the doors and side panels leading into the hall were broken out, giving Ashli the reasonable expectation that she'd not be at risk if she continued. (They'd probably stood by because they saw that the members had evacuated.)
In the extremely noisy hall there's no evidence Ashli heard the warning "he's got a gun" shouted by John Sullivan, who was making a video on the opposite side. She was not some nut who defied a drawn gun and warning, and proceeded to her death. She was shot from ambush, as soon as she leaned through the window and without being given a chance to turn back. She never even turned her head toward the shooter.
Zoom image showing how empty the hall was at the moment Ashli (with a flag backpack) was shot -- image. The open door seen in the distance -- with a man waiting there -- is at the end of a long hall.
Video from the right side of the hall showing the police, including a SWAT team present with Ashli -- video (audio of "he's got a gun" not audible there).
Sullivan's video from the left side -- video (drawn gun visible, and "he's got a gun" audible).
If the shooter had merely stepped in front of Ashli and let her see his drawn weapon -- all the other police were in the open, and none of them had been shot -- if he'd given her a chance to retreat, I'm sure nobody would have been killed. The rioters were breaking the law, yes, and deserved some punishment, but the killing Ashli was treacherous and in my opinion downright evil.
I recommend that everyone save the videos if you can (especially the one taken from the right) because they prove how unjustified the shooting was.
Thanks for the mention. I wasn’t aware of that.
I wouldn’t consider her a threat if they hadn’t been there.
Thanks for the mention.
Disgusting!
All of them have culpability now.
I agree with your analysis.
Total and complet BULLSH**!!!
“Internal” investigation???
NO! We need a REAL invetigation!!!
the Capitol POlice of Pelosi can rape and murder WHITE
women and girls, murder their babies and drink
the adrenochrome as they are murdered and raped.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, America.
THEY can murder with impunity.
THEY can guillotine with impunity.
The Courts will back them up since they run on
adrenochrome, too.
There are no good people left in Federal law enforcement, post-Obama. Trump failed to realize this and it cost him dearly.
If not you, others are aware I’m supportive of police officers. Even police officers don’t like it when one of their own screw up.
They may remain tight lipped about it and that may be fodder for criticism at times, but I think this is a clear cut case of a bad shoot.
Thanks for the note of agreement.
I am also supportive of the police. Several family members are retired officers. In fact, my pastor is a police officer.
She didn’t die that day. The DS murdered her months later. It was all staged.
So we now have a police officer at the capitol who shoots unarmed civilians and constantly deals with the public. If you ever go there for a tour for God’s sake don’t get separated from it.
Does anybody know where the trespassing warning signs with “Use Of Deadly Force Authorized” in red letters at the bottom are in the capitol?
Lt. Byrd is is headed right down Seth Rich Road to Arkancide Avenue.
Hasta Luego! Chump.
How do you spell “Coverup”?
This with the FBI probe satisfied that the mob was not an insurrection. There guys were involved in the mayhem bottomline. Watch for a report saying so
And this is surprising how? Both the DOJ and the Capitol Police ruled the shooting justified months ago.
He probably would have gotten off.
Of course it will. You are really close minded not to go back in time for the things that hit this county that were far worse!
1812 invaded by British and the White House burned to the ground
1861 - Civil War
1917 - WWI and Spanish Influenza
1927 - 1945 Great depression and 4 years of FDR plus a dust bowl and WWII
And on it goes. This is nothing. 1 person got shot and the assassins get away with it. Is it Ashley or Seth Rich? Give it time my friend. All is going to soon be reveiled and its going to blow your mind!
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