Key word is “unarmed”. Some of the rioters did in fact have guns as the arrest records show. Now Ashli Babbitt did not have a gun. She did, however, have a backpack, the contents of which were unknown to the officer. The Boston Marathon bomber also had a backpack. So you have an individual with a backpack, who repeatedly refuses to obey instructions to back off and is entering a restricted space with government officials being evacuated to safety. If I were in Byrd’s shoes, I would likely have made the same call.
I am not sure when we, the party of individual responsibility and law and order, decided there should be no consequences for repeatedly disobeying an officer’s lawful orders in a high-pressure situation, let alone make a martyr out of said individual, no different than the lawless leftists who lionize the latest black criminal shot by police.
Many Freepers have assured me that most of the January 6 rioters were antifa, but also claim that those arrested, all 700+ of them, are “political prisoners” deserving of our aid and sympathy. I don’t see how both of those statements can be true. I will never lift a finger to help antifa.
https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1
Did any of you pro-shoot the harmless lady idiots watch any of the associated videos? It would seem not. You are making up scenarios which have almost nothing to do with reality and everything to do with your fertile imaginations. So you would shoot indiscriminately into a group that was not actually putting you or any of the people you are supposed to be protecting at risk? Fortunately, most of the people that I know with this type of mindset who wanted to become police officers were rejected on psychological grounds.
I can also guarantee that the vast majority, if not all of the political prisoners still held behind bars illegally without trials are Trump supporters. People who were willing to go along with the anti-Trump narrative were either let go or never arrested to begin with.
You miss the most obvious parts: Neither Byrd, nor anyone else issued any verbal warnings or commands. Byrd lied about that and there’s more than enough video to prove that. Secondly, there at least three M16-armed police officers within a few feet.
There were no signs or other warning methods to tell anyone that they were entering a shoot-to-death-without-warning area (if such actually exists).
Lastly, if Ashli had a bomb in her backpack, wouldn’t it have been designed to go off when that murderous meathead shot her? (Deadman switch)
People like you have lost sight of who we are supposed to be. We are only a fraction of an inch from Nazis, at this point.