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Two years ago today, a Capitol Hill police officer called Michael Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the neck. At the time of that killing, Byrd had a documented history of gross negligence with a firearm. He left a loaded Glock pistol in a public men’s room at the Capitol, which for a law enforcement official is a firing offense. But for some reason, Michael Byrd was still on the force that day. The woman he killed was called Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt was a married 14-year veteran of the U.S. military. She ran a pool cleaning company with her husband in San Diego. Physically, she was tiny. She was also unarmed. Michael Byrd later admitted he had no indication at all that Babbitt was carrying a weapon. She posed no visible threat. He killed her anyway.
Under normal circumstances, Byrd would have been fired immediately and charged with murder, which he clearly committed, but that’s not what happened. After doing essentially no investigation into the shooting, Nancy Pelosi’s congressional police force declared Byrd a national hero and the media strongly agreed.
Byrd went on television to accept accolades and to complain about racism. He was never punished for killing Ashli Babbitt. He was rewarded for it. Ashli Babbitt ‘s mother, meanwhile, got a very different sort of treatment. Babbitt’s mother was arrested today in Washington by the Capitol Police. Her crime? Trying to hold a memorial service for her daughter.
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Two years later, it’s clear that Ashli Babbitt is – her death – is by far the most significant thing that happened at the US Capitol building that day, but at the same time, it is the least talked about event of January 6. Why is that? Well, because the facts about what actually happened on January 6 disrupt the lies, what they told you happened on January 6, and those lies have proven very useful to the Biden…
