Posted on 01/07/2021 12:32:38 PM PST by Magnatron
Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said he witnessed the moment a police officer shot a woman inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and insisted the officer had no other choice.
A pro-Trump mob of rioters rammed their way into the Capitol Wednesday as Congress held a joint session to certify the election results, sending lawmakers into hiding.
Video shows a group attempting to force itself into the House chamber, where lawmakers were present. As protesters were breaking glass on the doors that kept them out to force their way through, a law enforcement officer fired a shot. One woman, Ashli Babbitt, was struck by a bullet and later died.
"When they broke the glass in the back, the [police] lieutenant that was there, him and I already had multiple conversations prior to this, and he didn't have a choice at that time," Mullin told ABC News' George Stephanapoulos on "Good Morning America" Thursday.
"The mob was going to come through the door, there was a lot of members and staff that were in danger at the time. And when he [drew] his weapon, that's a decision that's very hard for anyone to make, and, once you draw your weapon like that, you have to defend yourself with deadly force."
Mullin said police "showed a lot of restraint" and "did the best they could."
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You'll usually need a little more than that if you go through his website contact form. I emailed this dips**t, through his site, and I needed to have an address in his district for the message to go through. So I used the Durant townhall, which is a town in his patch of dirt.
Come to think of it, maybe that'll work for a voter registration, too. Seems the Dems get to do that all the time...
“If you’re gonna shoot; shoot. Don’t talk.”
-Tuco
I didn't see ANY broken glass!
If somebody could show the tape that shows this, please post it.
The guy is a chicken s..t. He’s hiding and it doesn’t appear to be anybody or royalty nearby. He could have just grabbed her and pulled her in and sat on her or motioned the other officers to pull her back and block the doorway.
I am 100% with you on that. No more GOP. Time for a party with people that actually represent and will fight for its people. The commie left must be neutralized or this country is no more.
I saw the shooting as recorded. That was cold blooded effing MURDER.
Oh, by the way, look at the hands on the gun. Black. Nails.
EFYouSeeKay.
Enough already.
How do I sleep at night?
Politicians have forgotten that is our house and those are our buildings. We have a right to access them.
Look at not the hands. Look at the cuffs. Police don’t wear French cuffs. The person was standing there with the cops. Obviously they knew the person. It was either one of our representatives or or one of his/her senior staff.
This Fox News article is full of misinformation.
It is propaganda.
There were a lot of police right behind her. Bad shoot.
Uh, didn’t pedo joe suggest these LEOs shoot to wound not kill? As far as I’ve heard she wasnt even unarmed with a knife. And, for over seven months we’ve been repeatedly told that these protests are totally acceptable and condemnation would not be tolerated. Then, BOOM! NOT okay. Weird hyh? 😯
Next LEO shooting of an unarmed perpetrator we better hear “We had no choice!” as an acceptable defense.
The armed officer behind her even indexed his weapon toward the shooter....
Justified or not, we all know had it been a BLM protest and the same thing happened, the media’s attitude about the shooting would be flipped 180°. “Police brutality,” “they only shot because she was black, would not have happened had she been white,” “unarmed,” etc.
Another loser from Oklahoma. He behaves as expected living in the sewer and swamp he made so much money attending.
Like all congress creeps his bread is not buttered somewhere other than Oklahoma.
No choice? Did she have a gun? Was she armed with anything?
Dolt.
It is not, “him and I”. Sounds like he got his edumacation at Watts, Oklahoma or somewhere equally backward.
What can you expect from a plumber?
Every stinking one of the bastards needs to be primaried.
For an officer to give a warning in this situation, would be within regulation.
She was not armed. He had a choice. He chose not to use that choice.
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