By PAUL SPERRY February 25, 2021
All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. But only Ashli Babbitt’s death was directly caused by violence that day. She was a rioter killed by a Capitol Police officer, who fired the only shot by any person during the 4½-hour siege. Yet the story of who he is and why he opened fire remains shrouded in mystery.
More than six weeks after Babbitt succumbed to a single gunshot wound to the upper chest, authorities are keeping secret the identity of the officer who fired the fatal round. They won’t release his name, and the major news media aren’t clamoring for it, in stark contrast to other high-profile police shootings of unarmed civilians...
Drawing on interviews with informed sources and available documents, RealClearInvestigations has put together a portrait of the actual shooter and the shooting, which some describe as completely justified and others call murder.
The officer who opened fire on Babbitt holds the rank of lieutenant and is a longtime veteran of the force who worked protective detail in the Speaker’s Lobby, a highly restricted area behind the House chamber, sources say. An African-American, he was put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation led by the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, which shares jurisdiction with the Capitol Police. The Justice Department is also involved in the inquiry.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that the officer has been interviewed and cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a preliminary investigation, suggesting that the police killing may soon be ruled justifiable homicide. But D.C. Police spokeswoman Alaina Gertz told RCI, “This case remains under active investigation.”
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The Capitol Police officer fired at her from the side of the barricade, where he had been hidden from view in a doorway. At least from what can be seen and heard from the video, he appears to issue no commands to stop nor any verbal warning that he would shoot.
“That was an execution,” said Jack Feeley, a fellow Air Force vet and friend of Babbitt, adding that it “breaks my heart to know millions of people watched my friend be executed on live television.” (It wasn’t on “live television,” it was filmed by the antifa/BLM thug who lead the charge to that location)
A former White House national security aide and Pentagon official agreed the officer appeared trigger happy. “It was an assassination. I’ve never seen a more clear case in all my years. I’ve seen EJKs that were cleaner than that,” said the former official, referring to an extrajudicial killing, or state-sponsored killing outside the formal legal system of a country. “He stepped into it [the shot] for [expletive deleted] sake.”
Much, much more here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-ashli-babbitt-killing-shrouded-in-mystery-officer-who-shot-her-is-in-hiding-for-his-own-safety_3709231.html?
Looks like a narrative is being developed…Ashli as martyr and “patriots” as angry enough to take matters into their own hands.
Interesting that the officer’s lawyer is representing the guy who helped make up the Steele Dossier lies.
Tangled webs.
I looked at Ashli’s Twitter page on the evening of 1/6. It was created in 2016, but had no activity until April, 2020. It had either been dormant for the better part of four years, or everything prior to 4/2020 had been scrubbed.
From April on, there was heavy volume tweeting, with every tweet being purely political, every photograph containing either MAGA or Q messaging (t-shirts, hats, flags, etc). I was struck by the total absence of any personal interaction, or any tweets of a non-political nature (no family, friends, pets, sports, movies, music, food, vacations… nothing but politics).
I had one nagging thought running through my head as I scrolled her feed:
“This is narrative construction”.
So… where is her family? Their representative to Congress, their Senators? Have those Congresspeople been asked to find out about this? Have they declined?