Why? He will lie about it.
The rotten SOB.
Better yet, he needs to watch the video and any other video that live streamers took that day.
People were streaming that online that day. I can remember watching it and thought it was odd that cops were standing quite close behind her a little to the side.
Why was he even asked??
On another thread it was noted that John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers involved in the ‘Boston Massacre’.
The British justice system of the time not only charged the soldiers with murder, the trial was held in Boston. The Brits did not hide the soldiers in luxury quarters on a military base, nor did King George award them with medals.
This was the brutal government we revolted against in 1775.
Byrd did his job my azz. That was outright murder under all US law and case law.
The Capitol building is not a “deadly force” red lone are like a nuclear bunker. All normal rules apply. Congressmen are not protected by deadly force because you crawl in a window.
She was unarmed, and he illegally precluded all lesser uses of force. He could have physically arrested her, he was MUCH larger. He could have used pepper spray, a taser, a baton, etc.
If this same exact shooting happened at your local mayor’s office window, the FBI would have descended on the cop and he would be in prison for murder. Emotions aside, you cannot gun someone down because they are angry and approaching a congressmans office.
Sorry, but I’ll never get the outrage that people have over that video. She knew that guy was on the other side with the gun, and she and her buddies were breaking the windows with lawmakers on the other side going through that hallway. Everyone on her side of the window knew there was a gun. You can hear them yelling it out before she climbed through.
If she had been a Trayvon Martin type and that had been a security guard protecting employees in a store from people breaking into their last line of defense, everyone on this board would be cheering it, but because she was a Trump supporter, we’re supposed to feel terrible about it. I don’t. Sorry.
Hell, when that nut hopped the fence and ran into the white House and ran all through the ground floor. He was tackled.... not shot without warning. That was by the Oval Office.
If he didn’t watch the video, there was a good reason.
The only reason that I can fathom is that he knew she was murdered, knew of the plan that day, and was in on the plan. That would also be why many wouldn’t vote for him as speaker, and why he had to promise to release all the footage.
The footage hasn’t been released, and he promised, and the reason for that broken promise isn’t ‘security’, IMHO.
McCarthy is also hiding the J6 videos he vowed to release on March 8.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144422/posts
If McCarthy said that he never heard of Ashlii, or never heard how she was killed, that would be significant. If he never saw video of her being shot, that does not matter.
So let’s see the video already, start to finish with missing context.
Worthless POS!
Might as well bring back one of the crybabies: Hastert-Boehner-Ryan...
Release all of the video NOW, McCarthy.
I cannot get my congresscritter to admit she has watched Ray Epps. I have been trying for over a year. She will not represent me and ask “why wasn’t Ray Epps arrested for orchestrating January 6”?
My husband and I were both watching live footage when Ashli Babbitt was shot. Both of us simultaneously exclaimed “that was murder.” What I saw was, in fact, straight up murder.
She met with him and didn’t have the video on her phone to compel him to watch?
Something smells.