Oldestyle
Diamond Member
So because people in another part of the protest assaulted Police...that gave the officer who waited in hiding the right to shoot an unarmed protester that HADN'T assaulted anyone in a totally different location?If you are looking for an affidavit or an under oath video of Babbit claiming such, well.......you'll be disappointed.
However, Babbit was part of a violent mob that had been savagely beating uniformed police officers on the steps and in the entryways of the Capitol building. The officers upstairs were aware of the "Officer down" calls coming in on their earpieces. They knew this mob violently breaking the door that separated them weren't coming in to get autographs.
Watch the friggin' video......the people were violently smashing a door in the Capitol of the United States of America.
And then, importantly, the officers were shouting to back away, to leave, to not enter. AND....also importantly.....a gun was brandished before Babbit charged at the officers behind the barricade, and it was loudly shouted by Babbit's mob cohort that a gun was being aimed.
Yet she jumped towards the officers. And became DOA. Earned her toe-tag honors.
Ashli Babbit is dead because of Ashli Babbit.
And I'm sure her family is tired of the RWNJ-universe dragging her corpse around the internet in order to try to make a tired point.
Have some respect for the too-soon dead, poster Oldestyle
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As poster Schmidlap duly noted, the Elmer Fudds of this world quickly run out of ammo. They are newbies and naifs about having enough ammo. Or enough gun to handle the response. Naïve nimrods.
Sad, really.
But it does foster a fair amount of snickering and snarking.
God bless their little souls.
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Man, that poor horse is being beaten into horseradish.
But hell, Skippy, lets saddle 'er up again.
'Unprepared for the protest'.
Ummm, there was not to be a 'protest'.
There was to be a 'political rally'. Two miles away.
The only permit applied for ----and issued ----was for that 'rah-rah-rah rally' two miles away at the Ellipse.
The Capitol Police were not warned by the Administration, by the rally organizers, or Don Trump and his enablers........that he would order the crowd assembled at the Ellipse to march at our legislators two miles away.
Nor were the Capitol Police warned by the Administration that they knew a significant number of the 'rally goers' were armed. Or that they intended to violently assault the thin blue line of officers in order to vandalize our Capitol and, most importantly, halt the Constitutionally mandated count of the Electoral votes.
Duh!
I did watch the video. I saw the protesters that were with Babbit let three Police officers walk away from the doors without doing a thing to them. So much for a "violent" mob! I saw an empty hallway beyond the doors. You claim there were Police on the other side of the door warning people not to come through the doors! Did you watch the video? When did that take place? That hallway is clear. The plainclothes Officer who comes out of hiding to shoot Babbit is out of sight to the left of the door and he's not saying a thing. The only warning that Babbitt gets that someone has a gun comes from fellow protesters who see the Capitol Police Officer jump out from the side of the door with his gun brandished and start screaming about someone with a gun. Seconds later he fires the shot that kills Babbit. Chances are...she never even saw the gun that killed her until it was being fired at her. Your claim that Babbit "jumped" towards the officer is patently false. She was still in the process of kicking out the window when she was shot...still on the other side of the doors. She didn't "jump" towards anyone!