The President Trump supporter killed in the Capitol building Wednesday was an Air Force vet from California who tweeted a day earlier how “nothing will stop us” and “the storm is here.”
Ashli Babbitt, who had 14 years in the service and did four tours of duty, was married and lived near San Diego, her husband, Aaron, told KUSI-TV.
“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” the husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt, told The Post, saying of her daughter-in-law, “She is a Trump supporter.”
– New York Post
Amid the bombardment of images of what took place at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, too little time has been spent thinking about why it happened. Anyone who is trying to understand the significance of what’s going on ought to watch video of the last moments of Ashli Babbit, the woman who was shot and killed in the chaos.
Footage, which can easily be found online, shows Babbit standing in a hallway right off the House floor with an American flag tied around her neck. The scene around her is chaotic. People are bumping into each other, yelling, trying to get through the door into the chamber. Suddenly, with no warning, there is gunfire. You hear a shot and Babbit falls. People in the hallway scream. The camera closes in on her face. Babbit looks stunned. She’s staring straight ahead. You can see that she knows she’s about to die, which she did.
-Read more at Fox News
There was confusion about who shot Babbitt at first. NBC News reported that a member of law enforcement shot Babbitt, according to law enforcement officials. The New York Post reported that the officer was with the Capitol Police. DC police later said the officer, who has not been named, was a plainclothes Capitol police officer.
– Read more at Heavy.com
The following Twitter videos are graphic.
— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) January 6, 2021
GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: Police fatally shoot a Trump supporter inside the Capitol building. This is a sickening crime that should be prosecuted as such. pic.twitter.com/X8JK7HplJ7
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) January 7, 2021
‘Political violence begets political violence. That is an iron law. We have to be against that, no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext, no matter how many self-interested demagogues assure us the violence is justified or necessary. We have a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people’s children, but because in the end it doesn’t work.’ – Tucker Carlson
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Great job Capital police, killing an innocent woman, who was not violent. Just shooting into a crowd. Of course, antifa and blm get a pass from the police, when they tried to storm the White House, last year.
The coward that shot this woman needs to be outed and prosecuted. HE FIRED FIRST. Up to that point only property was damaged. This fool who took the protest to a level of violence needs to be disciplined and prosecuted to the highest degree. Ten worthless Schumers they sought to protect are not worth what we lost with her death. Imagine her last words were “God Bless America” She survived 4 tours of military duty only to come home and get plugged by one of her own. The ones who own this are the media that necessitated in lies her protesting and the Democrat corrupt politicians who first stole her vote, and then stole her life.
I knew this was going to happen. Liberals don’t care about us. They are blaming us for everything. I say we need to claim it was mostly peaceful protest. Not a riot like the liberal news is claiming. I also say the nation’s capital needs to be move to a place all are welcome, not just democrats.
What’s the bet, the libtard mayor, and team biden, will do all they can, to ensure conservatives NEVER AGAIN get any permits to protest or gather in DC..
Attack on Democracy? Hogwash, It was Democracy in action in its rawest form, created designed by our founders, and brought on by incompetent politicians who thought themselves secure in their safe places and guaranteed incomes while American workers got locked down, locked up in COVID excuses and disinformation, while their votes got stolen and their churches closed and free speech got curtailed. Just what kind of frightened worm shoots a patriotic woman bearing an American flag? She was worth 10 Schumer’s they sought to protect. If this was not American Democracy in action, just why did our founders grant us the second amendment if they did not want THE PEOPLE to be empowered to seize back their freedoms when their sacred rights to vote, speak, protest, and worship in the very times like what we have, when the prescient founders foresaw miscarriage of a media that covers the crimes in blankets of propaganda. If these corrupted politicians do not smell the coffee soon, the second amendment fallback act will come out of the holster and won’t go back in until the stolen grievances do get addressed. The talk of PEACEFUL transitions of power are meaningless when the violence of the attacking and corrupted media has shot holes in our political unity with criminal direction and criminal purpose. You want to fix this without more violence, just start with no ID no vote, and no more mail-in votes allowed without elderly age requirements, doctor’s certificates, and tons of paperwork to back up proof of who is really doing the voting, and why they cannot do it in person,,,,soon to be followed by media monopoly breakups and lawsuits for lies.
ISN’T that the PUREST form of Democracy?? MOB RULE….
where is the news of the antifa bus load that washington police let in?
BEING squashed as always.. GOTTA make it look like all this was TRUMP supporters fault, ALL SO they can kill our movement.
Yes the hallway was chaotic BUT there were no obvious fire arms in the hands of the protesters. The officer who shot her had NO business shooting. There was no imminent threat. If they victim had been black we’d have had riots all night and into today decrying the ‘police violence’ and ‘killing of an innocent, unarmed person.’ There are two standards and they are not the ones being reported in the mainstream media.
So true.. AS WE saw for weeks on end, when BLM was literally throwing explosives at cops, they were being PROHIBITED from even firing merely TEAR GAS back.. BUT Unarmed Trump supporters? Get live ammo!?!
Did anyone notice the shooter appeared to wear a suit, with the cuffs of his white showing as he shot an unarmed woman—point blank. Whose office was he guarding??
The man who shot Ashli Babbitt should be named and charged….Think about it he discharged his weapon at the victim and the capitol hill police were standing next to her,
He could have just as easily shot the capitol hill police.
He had no right or justification to discharge his weapon.
He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
You can bet your last red cent, he won’t be though.