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Ashli Babbitt’s Mom Speaks

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  • Originally posted by Sparko View Post

    sounds like a "mall cop"
    Yuh.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
      Ashli Babbitt’s Mom Speaks

      What kind of country is it where a police officer - a FEDERAL officer - can kill a civilian (a veteran) and we can't even know officially who it was?

      Her family’s grief has been compounded by the media’s grotesque portrayal of their loved one as a “QAnon conspiracy theorist” or worse, a traitor who got what she deserved.

      The only video Ashli Babbitt’s mom has seen of her daughter on January 6 is a clip of her walking from Donald Trump’s speech to Capitol Hill. “That brings me peace,” Micki Witthoeft, Ashli’s mom, told me by phone on Wednesday. “She was in her zone, so happy, having a great day.”

      “Until that son-of-a-bitch shot her.”

      Nearly seven months after a United States Capitol Police officer shot Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol building on January 6, the government and subservient corporate news media still refuse to confirm the name of the federal officer who killed her. (Investigative journalist Paul Sperry recently reported the shooter likely is USCP Lt. Michael Byrd.) The Justice Department closed its investigation into her shooting in April and announced the unnamed officer would not face criminal charges.

      Three USCP officers participated in an overdramatic public hearing before the January 6 select committee on Tuesday, often referring to protesters as “terrorists,” “insurrectionists,” and “traitors,” though not a single person arrested in the aftermath has been charged with terrorism, insurrection, or treason. They repeatedly claimed they thought they would be killed by the protesters. USCP officer Harry Dunn asked for a moment of silence in honor of Officer Brian Sicknick to once again promote the falsehood that he was killed in the line of duty.

      Courtesy of Micki Witthoeft

      But there was no moment of silence for Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and Air National Guardsman with eight deployments overseas, including to Iraq and Afghanistan, who actually was killed on January 6. There were no tears and table-pounding from crisis-actor cops or emotionally-fragile lawmakers mourning her premature death. Babbitt was just 35.

      In fact, no one bothered to mention her name.

      Witthoeft, 57, described her oldest child as “determined and strong willed.” A “tomboy” of sorts, Ashli always was up for adventure. While in high school, Ashli decided she wanted to join the military; Witthoeft said she signed a notarized document to allow Ashli to enroll in the Air Force at the age of 17. “September 11 strengthened her conviction to serve,” Witthoeft said.

      Ashli graduated from El Capitan High School in Lakeside, California in 2003 and entered the U.S. Air Force. On her 21st birthday, Ashli sustained serious injuries in an explosion at Camp Bucca detention facility in Iraq and was airlifted to a hospital in Germany.

      Ashli’s adventurous spirit, Witthoeft explained, is what motivated her daughter to travel alone from California to Washington, D.C. so she could listen to Donald Trump’s speech on January 6. “She was an avid Trump supporter, she knew that’s where she had to be,” Witthoeft said. “She went to all the [Trump] rallies if there was one nearby. She was the political one at our house.” At the time, Ashli and her husband, Aaron, were operating a pool cleaning company in southern California.

      Video shows Babbitt with several other people, including police officers, outside the Speaker’s Lobby on the afternoon of January 6. Babbitt is seen yelling at officers stationed in front of a set of double doors, one with a broken window. USCP officers stepped aside a few moments later; people started to smash the glass of the locked doors. Babbitt then attempted to climb through one of the windows.

      That’s when the officer, wearing gloves, lifted his firearm and shot her in the neck. She died almost immediately.

      Witthoeft remembers getting the call from her daughter-in-law at work. “We knew from the news reports that someone had been shot and killed at the Capitol. So when she called to say Ashli was shot, I just knew. I could tell in her voice. We hoped there was time to pack a bag and get to D.C., but there wasn’t.”

      Witthoeft said “red tape” and the military-style lockdown in the capital caused a long delay in getting Babbitt’s body back home. In February, Babbitt was cremated and her remains scattered into the Pacific Ocean near her favorite dog park.

      Three days later, after sleeping on her belongings awaiting her return, Babbitt’s beloved German Shepherd died.

      Courtesy of Micki Witthoeft

      “She didn’t have to be killed, there were other options,” Witthoeft said of her 110-pound, 5-foot-2 daughter. (Babbitt was unarmed.) “Then they dragged her out like an animal, cleaned up the mess, and went about their business.”
      Sounds like the Capitol Police have investigated themselves (always a glowing sign of trustworthiness, for you to investigate yourselves for your own wrongdoing), and determined there was no wrongdoing and that “no further action will be taken in this matter,”. Still refusing to release the name.

      The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot the pro-Trump protester Ashli Babbitt at the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has been exonerated after an internal investigation, NBC News reported Friday.

      The officer, whose identity has been withheld, fired on Babbitt as she was attempting to climb through a smashed window and enter a barricaded corridor in the Capitol, where members of Congress were being evacuated after the mob breached the building.

      An Air Force veteran, Babbitt was an ardent supporter of then-President Donald Trump and a follower of QAnon conspiracy theories, which she often shared on social media.

      In April, the Justice Department announced it would not bring criminal charges against the officer who fired at Babbitt. A video of Babbitt's killing has been widely circulated, and Trump has spoken out about her death.

      “I spoke to the wonderful mother and husband of Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered at the hands of someone who should have never pulled the trigger of his gun,” Trump said in an emailed statement sent to news outlets earlier this month, adding, “If this happened to the ‘other side,’ there would be riots all over America, and yet there are far more people represented by Ashli, who truly loved America, than there are on the other side.”

      Trump’s embrace of Babbitt has helped elevate her to the status of a martyr formany supporters of the former president, and her death has been the subject of regular segments on networks like Fox News, OAN and Newsmax.

      In a memo, the Capitol Police Office of Personal Responsibility concluded that “no further action will be taken in this matter,” NBC News reported.

      An investigation into the Jan. 6 riot has been started by a select committee in the House of Representatives, and Babbitt’s participation in the insurrection and her death are likely to be a subject of scrutiny.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-p...201521615.html
      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...probe-n1277336

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      • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post

        Sounds like the Capitol Police have investigated themselves (always a glowing sign of trustworthiness, for you to investigate yourselves for your own wrongdoing), and determined there was no wrongdoing and that “no further action will be taken in this matter,”. Still refusing to release the name.



        https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...probe-n1277336
        Yup
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • So.....

          POLITICS
          Officer who shot pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt to reveal identity in NBC News interview

          The police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, who took part in the pro-Trump invasion of the U.S. Capitol, will reveal his identity for the first time in a televised interview set to air Thursday evening.

          The interview on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET, is set to air three days after the U.S. Capitol Police Department announced that it would not discipline the officer following an internal investigation of the Jan. 6 shooting.

          The Department of Justice previously said it would not pursue criminal charges against the officer, whose identity has not been disclosed.

          Babbitt, part of a mob of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol, tried to climb through an opening in a broken glass door outside the Speaker’s lobby, which leads to the House chamber, the DOJ’s investigation found. The officer, who was inside the lobby, drew his service pistol and shot Babbitt once in the left shoulder, causing her to fall backward onto the floor. She was transported to Washington Hospital Center, where she died.


          Apparently, he feels "safe" enough now that he can reveal his identity.... in spite of those who have defended his cowardice by claiming he was in grave danger from the Trump supporters.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • from the article in the previous post...

            Terrell Roberts, a lawyer for Babbitt’s family, questioned that finding in light of the forthcoming interview.

            “Did the Capitol Police’s fear that by identifying the officer he would be exposed to grave danger just evaporate into thin air?” Roberts said in an email to CNBC.

            The officer in the sit-down will “share his perspective on the events of that day, including the aftermath of the deadly insurrection and the threats he has received,” NBC said in a press release.


            My thoughts exactly!

            Having a name (unless he's still "masked" and protected as to his actual identity) will allow the CIVIL lawsuits to go forward, and it's not unusual for a police officer to be cleared internally, only to be found guilty (or culpable) in a civil trial.

            Remember - what he was declared "not guilty" of had nothing to do with unlawful death, but it was a bogus civil rights statute. He has never been 'tried' in a shooting board.
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • Tucker interviews Ashli's husband.
              Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.

              Beige Federalist.

              Nationalist Christian.

              "Everybody is somebody's heretic."

              Social Justice is usually the opposite of actual justice.

              Proud member of the this space left blank community.

              Would-be Grand Vizier of the Padishah Maxi-Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-MAGA King Trumpius Rex.

              Justice for Ashli Babbitt!

              Justice for Matthew Perna!

              Arrest Ray Epps and his Fed bosses!

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