Lawyer: Capitol Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt 'Ambushed' Her on Jan. 6 Without Warning

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RealClearInvestigations ^ | August 5, 2021

Kicking off the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6,” calling it “a scene of violence in the citadel of democracy.”

But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot.



This omission angered Babbitt’s family and a number of Republicans who maintain that the Select Committee and the Capitol Police are covering up the circumstances surrounding her death. Questions linger over the shooting, especially whether the officer who fired the fatal shot warned Babbitt to stop before he opened fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, right, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6.” But in his panel's extensive opening hearing, there was no mention of the killing of Ashli Babbitt

Ashli Babbitt, shown with husband Aaron, was the victim of an
ambush without warning, the family's lawyer says.

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No mention of the killing of Ashli Babbitt.

The things you can get away with while not being white if she was black it would be a 24/7/365 story.

Now tell me about all that racism business people talk about....

you people are nuts, when you try to overthrow our country and democracy what do you expect should or would happen , they should have shot every ass hole who forced their way into the capital putting 140 cops in the hospital. Everyone should have been shot.

 

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This scum forced their way onto the capital to overthrow our country and democracy and while they were in there these class right winger shit and pissed allover the capital. Total scum!