Posted on 08/27/2021 8:33:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After months of supposed hiding, the Capitol Hill cop who shot unarmed pro-Trump protestor Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol, Lt. Michael Byrd has come out of the woodwork to talk about his shooting, in a softball interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
Which is weird stuff, given that for months his identity had been concealed, by investigators, Congress, and other supposed watchdogs, on the grounds that revealing it to angry Trump supporters was too dangerous, and whose investigative conclusions excused him from accountability.
Now he's come out -- telling Lester Holt of his great heroics. He doesn't even need to, having been exonerated repeatedly.
The most likely reason is this lawsuit, and these efforts by Babbitt's family to get answers:
Babbitt’s family is suing for the identity of the officer to be publicly released but so far that effort has not borne fruit. They are also filing a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit, claiming the officer didn’t issue a verbal command according to the Washington Examiner.
A lawsuit would concentrate anyone's mind, even in the name of his agency, making it quite likely that he would think of preparing a defense.
It's a typical lawyer tactic, when it can be done and a judge doesn't slap it down, to try to sway public opinion, particularly when a defense is weak
Holt, who's no stranger to political water-carrying, would be the perfect such vehicle.
The problem here is that the effort has probably already backfired.
Byrd, who makes north of $100,000 a year as a Capitol Police lieutenant, comes off as a dumb goober, a flatfoot in any other police department, a classic Parkinson's law case of a man promoted to his level of incompetence.
After all, he has a history of mishandling weapons
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I hope he doesn’t have an accident.
5.56mm
A little bit of this (rubbing fingers together)
Typical gubmint JBT.
Yeah, it’d be a real shame if this lackey ended up getting sparrowed a month or so down the road. A real shame...
Nobody killed the pinko protestors who occupied Wisconsin’s capitol building in 2011.
The election protestors in 2021 certainly didn’t expect to be murdered when entering their nation’s capitol.
Andy should not have let Barney load his bullet.
He appears to be mentally incompetent, just not safe.
Insulting him is now a hate crime. Don’t believe it? Defacing a statue of Floyd is a hate crime. This man walks around with protection.
This cop committed murder. Shooting an unarmed person is unjustifiable homicide. The Kenosha cop got 22 years for much less.
To rub it in everyones face.
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THIS
Cut from exactly the same cloth as the Somali savage dressed as a policeman in Minnesota who shot an unarmed white woman in cold blood.
Find him at a gas station, y’all, and give him some Maxine Waters style love.
That was bizarre to say the least. Something terribly amiss with this guy.
💯 for the money. Period.
Amen!! He is another EVIL DEMOCRAT MURDERER!
Cause it’s racist not to! Blacks can loot murder whites lie cheat steal and never be held accountable... that’s why.
Probably couldn’t be able toget first degree murder.
Possibly 2nd degree but definitely first degree manslaughter.
And then he would likely get a plea deal. Less than 2 years with good behavior.
And a nominal fine.
Now had he been white and he shot a black blm member..with out a doubt quite a different outcome.
This guy waited his whole life for the opportunity that came on 1/6....and he got away with it.
He ain’t right.
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