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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There won't be one. He is a police officer and has limited immunity that prevents him from being sued.
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”.
The family is suing the Capitol police. They can't sue him
[ 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...
He's a police officer so he can't be sued for this. Limited liability.
Or simply been present while a convicted felon overdosed himself....
If you're talking about the Jacob Blake shooting the officer was never charged.
Yes looking forward to the autograph tour where he signs with an "X". "Just make your mark here, Mistuh Byrdumbs..."
“I was doing my job”...shooting an unarmed woman that was of no threat to me.
Like with Breonna Taylor?
“I vas only following orders!”
Democrats controlling the narrative, backed up by the media.
Also if you are from Oklahoma, would you all get rid of the GOP asshat that called this racist killer a hero.
Me too! What a coward...along with the other cowards who are covering up for him!
He showed “utmost courage.” Just ask him.
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.
Or like that Somali cop that killed the white woman in her nightgown. He never answered for that either.
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