I get mad Everytime I see it!😡
She was not the only one!🤨
Posted on 02/04/2024 12:24:18 PM PST by george76
A watchdog group is escalating its battle with the Justice Department over the FBI’s refusal to turn over files on Ashli Babbitt, the United States Air Force veteran shot and killed during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot over the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch, claiming a “cover-up,” on Friday filed a suit in federal court claiming that the FBI has twice refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act demands for any files it has on Babbitt and her husband Aaron.
The FOIA lawsuit was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Judicial Watch is working with Aaron Babbitt, who is the executor of his wife’s estate, to get all the information the government has on the duo and its reports of her shooting death by then-U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd as she attempted to enter the House Speaker’s Lobby unarmed.
They recently joined in filing a $30 million wrongful death suit against the government in the death of the 35-year-old, the only one associated with the riots who died on Jan. 6.
“Judicial Watch and our supporters are honored to represent Ashli’s steadfast widower Aaron Babbitt and her estate in this legal action. Ashli was shot in cold blood, and the rule of law requires justice for her,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in filing the suit on Jan. 4.
In its new FOIA suit, Judicial Watch said that not only has the FBI refused its two demands for files but that the law enforcement agency has also stiff-armed the Justice Department office that advocates FOIA compliance, the Office of Information Policy.
In its four-page filing, the attorney for Aaron Babbitt and Judicial Watch said, “the FBI has failed to produce the requested records or demonstrate that the requested records are lawfully exempt from production; or notify plaintiffs of the scope of any responsive records they intend to produce or withhold and the reasons for any withholdings.”
Fitton said, “Ashli Babbit was the only homicide victim on Jan. 6, yet the FBI has been illicitly hiding its files on Ashli Babbitt from her family for a year. Why the cover-up?”
In the wrongful death suit, a new camera angle of the shooting was provided. The time-stamped video showed an unarmed Babbitt being pushed into the House Speaker’s Lobby as Byrd raises his gun. After he shot, she fell back, bleeding from the shoulder and neck.
According to the suit, “Ashli remained conscious for minutes or longer after being shot by Lt. Byrd. Ashli experienced extreme pain, suffering, mental anguish, and intense fear before slipping into pre-terminal unconsciousness. The autopsy report identified the cause of death as a ‘gunshot wound to left anterior shoulder’ with an onset interval of ‘minutes.’ The fact that Ashli was alive and conscious in extreme pain and suffering is documented in videos of the shooting.”
The suit continues, “Furthermore, nothing about the wound track described in the autopsy report would be expected to result in immediate death or instantaneous loss of consciousness, and Ashli’s lungs contained blood, further confirming that she was alive and breathing after being shot. Ashli was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center at 3:15 p.m. The medical examiner determined that the manner of death was homicide.”
Byrd later said he shot Babbitt as a “last resort.” He was subsequently promoted to captain.
That was murder by government, so naturally the government isn’t going to investigate and prosecute itself. Besides, it was a White Trump supporter that they murdered, and her life didn’t matter.
It could not be more obvious that Byrd should have been tried for murder.
Sorry, but this little snip in the very first paragraph told me all I needed to know about the author's bias... If you have to suck up to the powers to voice other facts, then you aint worth af in my book...
If Babbitt was legally shot, then all of the BLM rioters could and should be been shot!
We are all customers in a company store, and the whole operation is a sales job as far as the government is concerned.
Lindsey Graham was shouting "You've got guns. Use them!"
As a last resort, right?
Yesterday there was a bunch of leftists that closed down the I-40 bridge connecting Memphis to Arkansas. For four long and dangerous hours the bridge insurrectionists had it closed. Fifty squad cars, and more police assets were deployed. Not one arrest and not one charge.
I guess the group had itself full of informants and FBI Agents. No other possible explanation? They were all white, an impromptu bridge riot of non-Memphis assets. Normally any protest group in Memphis is flush with black clergy and civic leaders to provide cover. There were none. All white females and soy Boyz.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is a twit. South Carolina can do much better if they pay attention.
Go ahead and kill yourself asshole! Not all of us wear knee pads for the progressive scum running this country.
Byrd did not even go to assist Babbitt after her shot her. Which is very strange.
I heard they were ‘hiding/protecting’ him at Andrews AFB after he murdered her.
I heard a recording where he called for assistance shouting “shots fired...I’m returning fire” AFTER he shot her. He seemed to be acting to cover up his actions.
Despicable. Did he not think the truth would come out? Perhaps he already knew he would be protected. And he was right.
Based on the theatrics in the scripted J6 hearings (produced by ABC television) its pretty obvious that the truth doesn’t matter.
He should wear his captain stripes in GITMO.
“Lefties” are destroying America!
PERIOD!
Ashli Babbit's killer was given a promotion after the murder. Never forget.
And so long as it continues, it reinforces the myth that Trump is an agent of Russia.
Which is why the Democrats have their Pootie Fan Club drones posting it here, unless they are just extraordinarily stupid individuals who actually believe the collusion hoax isn’t a Clinton campaign hoax.
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