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So why did the Trigger-Happy Capitol Hill cop come out?
American Thinker ^ | 08/27/2021 | Monica Showalter

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

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: ashlibabbitt; bidenvoters; byrd; capitolhill; capitolriot; coward; january6; murder; murderer; murderofashlibabbitt; panic; wewillnotforget
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To: SpaceBar
His civil trial will be a hoot.

There won't be one. He is a police officer and has limited immunity that prevents him from being sued.

61 posted on 08/27/2021 9:12:48 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone in the Deep State PAID him to “Come out” and they convinced him he was going to be okay and they would take good care of him.....

What the DEEP STATE is NOT telling him is that they are setting him up to be shot to death by some FBI wind-up toy so they can turn the “Sow’s Ear” that is the shooting of Ashlee Babbit, in to the “Silk Purse” of the Martyr-ization of this scumbag by some “Redneck MAGA hat wearing wind up toy”.


62 posted on 08/27/2021 9:13:44 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Hogblog
Guessing that there is a lawsuit coming his way from her family so it was going to come out...

The family is suing the Capitol police. They can't sue him

63 posted on 08/27/2021 9:14:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: PLMerite

[ It’s a potential win/win for the Left. They get to parade this guy around as a hero with the complicity of the media, and, if he gets smoked, they get a martyr.

One wonders if he’s thought all this out.]

Oh I am SURE they ran the numbers and scenarios...


64 posted on 08/27/2021 9:14:34 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: eyeamok
If reports are true, I read there is a post on social media of this guy supporting BLM and making anti-white comments. If true, they need to get out ahead of it or this will be pushed as a racial killing. I have also read that the Attorneys for the family have made accusations of racism. So maybe the social media stuff is true.
65 posted on 08/27/2021 9:15:09 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: colorado tanker
They know his defense to a civil suit is dog food, regardless of the whitewash "report" exonerating him.

He's a police officer so he can't be sued for this. Limited liability.

66 posted on 08/27/2021 9:16:14 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: CitizenUSA
Consider what would have happened had a white officer shot a black BLM “non-violent protestor” in similar circumstances? We’d have that officer fired and incarcerated without bail pending trial on murder charges.

Or simply been present while a convicted felon overdosed himself....

67 posted on 08/27/2021 9:17:07 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: DeplorablePaul
The Kenosha cop got 22 years for much less.

If you're talking about the Jacob Blake shooting the officer was never charged.

68 posted on 08/27/2021 9:18:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: joshua c
"book deal"

Yes looking forward to the autograph tour where he signs with an "X". "Just make your mark here, Mistuh Byrdumbs..."

69 posted on 08/27/2021 9:18:23 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: Pollard

“I was doing my job”...shooting an unarmed woman that was of no threat to me.


70 posted on 08/27/2021 9:18:56 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: CitizenUSA
Consider what would have happened had a white officer shot a black BLM “non-violent protestor” in similar circumstances? We’d have that officer fired and incarcerated without bail pending trial on murder charges.

Like with Breonna Taylor?

71 posted on 08/27/2021 9:20:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: kanawa

“I vas only following orders!”


72 posted on 08/27/2021 9:20:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats controlling the narrative, backed up by the media.


73 posted on 08/27/2021 9:20:56 AM PDT by robel
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To: SeekAndFind
" . . . a classic Parkinson's law case of a man promoted to his level of incompetence."

I thought that was called the Peter Principle.
74 posted on 08/27/2021 9:22:13 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DoodleDawg
I believe they sue the Department and interestingly the Department is managed by none other than Pelosi. Individual Congress critters cannot be sued in the performance of their official duties. But, the murder maybe a horse of a different color. Can Congress and Pelosi be sued?

Also if you are from Oklahoma, would you all get rid of the GOP asshat that called this racist killer a hero.

75 posted on 08/27/2021 9:23:33 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: EEGator

Me too! What a coward...along with the other cowards who are covering up for him!


76 posted on 08/27/2021 9:24:06 AM PDT by gr8eman (When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
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To: eyeamok

He showed “utmost courage.” Just ask him.


77 posted on 08/27/2021 9:24:23 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Krosan

RE: I think it was because his name was leaked and some outlet was going to publish it anyway.

Anyone who read articles posted in FR about January 6, 2021 already knew about his name as well as his ethnicity months ago.

He is like the “whistleblower” in Trump’s first impeachment that the Democrats and press like to pretend to protect when we all know his name and background— Eric Ciaramella.


78 posted on 08/27/2021 9:25:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Or like that Somali cop that killed the white woman in her nightgown. He never answered for that either.


79 posted on 08/27/2021 9:26:04 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Flip the races and the politics, and imagine it was a white cop shooting an unarmed black woman as she was trying to smash a window and enter a prohibited area during a BLM protest.

The media narrative would be completely different, the officer would get no friendly interviews, his name would have been released within hours, he would have been suspended or fired, and there would have been riots protesting the shooting.
80 posted on 08/27/2021 9:26:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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