So, new information surfaces --- there were already officers in the hallway with the protesters, standing with their backs to the door, guarding it from the protesters.
The shooter was inside the lobby - other officers were on the other side of the door holding back the protesters, but they move aside when other officers in tactical gear arrive.
The officer INSIDE the room shoots into the hallway, killing Babbit, and risked shooting other officers who were there managing the situation.
The officers in the hallway WITH the protesters had things under control, and help had already arrived.
The shooter was inside the lobby - other officers were on the other side of the door holding back the protesters, but they move aside when other officers in tactical gear arrive.
The officer INSIDE the room shoots into the hallway, killing Babbit, and risked shooting other officers who were there managing the situation.
Two previously unreported video clips obtained by The Washington Post shed new light on the fatal shooting by police of Trump supporter and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt as she and other rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Babbitt and others were attempting to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon, angrily demanding that three U.S. Capitol Police officers who were guarding the door step aside, one of the clips shows. The officers moved away as colleagues in tactical gear arrived behind the rioters, according to the clip and other video posted online.
Roughly 35 seconds after the officers moved away, as she climbed up toward a broken section of the unguarded door, Babbitt was shot by an officer on the other side.
Babbitt and others were attempting to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon, angrily demanding that three U.S. Capitol Police officers who were guarding the door step aside, one of the clips shows. The officers moved away as colleagues in tactical gear arrived behind the rioters, according to the clip and other video posted online.
Roughly 35 seconds after the officers moved away, as she climbed up toward a broken section of the unguarded door, Babbitt was shot by an officer on the other side.
The officers in the hallway WITH the protesters had things under control, and help had already arrived.
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