UNJUSTIFIED KILLING? A new frame-by-frame video analysis from the January 6 riot appears to show that Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol shortly before being shot and killed by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd.
A report from Epoch Times says that Babbitt, who was unarmed and had served in the U.S. Air Force as a military police officer, “was chatting with three officers from U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC).”
Eyewitness John Sullivan, a leftist BLM activist who was only feet away from Babbitt when she was killed said:
About five minutes prior to her getting shot and killed, all of those officers, Officer Yetter and the other officers in the hall, the MPD cops, they were all joking with her and laughing with her. They were having conversations and joking and laughing. Then not even five minutes later, Michael Byrd comes and executes her.
According to the Epoch Times (ET):
Video footage shot by John Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, shows that Babbitt tried to stop the violence against the Speaker’s Lobby at least four times before she climbed into a broken window and was shot by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. At one point, she was so distressed at the violence, she jumped up and down in frustration.
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Sullivan explained that:
We didn’t know anything about the building we were in. She turned the corner and I just followed her. A big group of people followed us after I followed her. People just kind of emerged on the door. By that time, she was stuck in the corner.
“She was literally trapped there,” Hansen added.
The video also shows Babbitt confronting rioter Zachary Alam, leaning in between him and one of the police officers guarding the doors. Alam turned away from Babbitt and punched a window to the side of the officer’s head.
Ashli Babbitt with looks of shock and concern over vandalism by rioters at the Speaker’s Lobby doors. Babbitt tried to stop rioters from breaking down the doors. She was shot just moments later. (Jayden X/YouTube)
ET reports that an audio analysis of video footage taken in the hallway reveals that Babbitt shouted, “Stop! No! Don’t! Wait!” according to her husband, Aaron Babbitt.
The Epoch Times adds:
Babbitt feared for her life, her husband said, so she climbed into the broken window to escape. Byrd shot her before she got more than partway into the window frame.
“The only way we’d ever know why Ashli felt the window was the only way out is if she had been detained by one of the countless police officers that abandoned their post in front of those doors,” Babbitt said. “That did not happen. She was murdered and robbed of the chance to tell her side of the story.”
Biden’s Department of Justice cleared Byrd of criminal culpability in the shooting death without ever questioning him or taking a statement, according to investigative records and the Babbitt family attorney, reported ET.
* NOTE – I was at the Capitol on January 6 as a security advisor to a foreign media TV news crew. In a piece I wrote the next day, I condemned the violence while insisting it was a riot not a coup or insurrection.
I also wrote about Babbitt, based on the available information at the time, saying: “While saddened by her death, which must be investigated, she should not be turned into a martyr. She was a victim, but also a misguided perpetrator.”
While I still believe she should not have joined the mob that day inside the Capitol, as more information becomes available, I’m seeing her much more as a victim than a perpetrator. And the full truth about her and her death must be revealed.
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Police Lt. Michael Byrd. needs tried for murder!
Exactly, he shouldn’t get away with this murder of Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbitt!
Mentally instable, he shouldn’t even been a Capitol Police Officer!
He will give account one day if he does repent to God
he is a coward and got to where he is because of race… talk about racism.. and NO there are MANY good cops of all colors, races, religions, creeds, what ever as I have know some of them. Byrd is plain and simple a coward and should be hung.
If the woman had been black he would have been tried for murder. He got to shoot an unarmed white woman in the back. The Demonazi left would have lynched him if the woman had been black
If that had been a white officer killing a black woman, the MSM would be all over that story.
Officer Michael Byrd should be arrested and charged with First Degree Murder! He is shown in the videos as having his finger on the trigger and shooting this Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt. If they can convict the Officer of Killing Mr. Floyd, then, this is a good case! He killed this Lady, and it rests on the liberals who are protecting this Officer to give Ashli he just due!
We need justice for Ashli Babbitt, George Floyd would not make a pimple on her butt.
Byrd needs to be tried and found guilty of murder. Pelosi needs to get on her knees and beg for forgiveness.
She only gets on her knees when wearing the colors of the tribe in Africa that rounded of other black tribes and sold them to white Dutch slavery on the Ivory coast.
Since the democrats are calling it an “insurrection” the officer responsible for her death will not be tried, because “he was defending the country”.
LISTEN IUP….There Should have been a TRIAL for the DEATH of ASHLI BABBITT. GOD Ruled HER DEATH a MURDER. It is NOT OKAY to SHOOT an UNARMED PERSON. NOT EVEN a WARNING SHOT was GIVEN. A STRIKE to KILL. SHE Deserved BETTER than THIS.From SamuraiQueen. 😩😩😩😢😢😢
😥😥😥what a tragedy. Look around. Our government is failing us.
Perhaps that’s why Ashli Babbitt was killed? They (in charge of Capitol) didn’t want the rioting to stop? It was what was wanted to frame President Trump? Just like the generated/paid for “Fake Dossier”!
Babbitt was excited by a coward cop who should be hung. Whom ever said this was a justified shooting need to be hung too because they are doing that for corupt political reasons and those reasons are terrorist and against everything America, the consitution and the bill of rights stands for. All of these politicians had better be investigated and prosecuted for so many reasons including this shame jan 6 investigation and many other issues. They should all punished (when found guilty, and I say when because this is in your face corruption) with wealth confisaction and up to hanging. We te American people should not be standing for thiis illegal behavior. NO kicking these tratiors out of officee is not enough. They deserve a very severe punishment and I am sick of people that think that them losing their political office is enough for many, which amounts to a political lifetime of corruption and illegal actions, should face real punishment. Pelosi, Schumer , the whole gang AOC, Omar (who should have never been elected, walters (who is a corrupt lying racist), hell all of them and many of the reps too. This should be a non-party investigation, a true investigation and punishment. These super rich should also be included,. Yes soros, bloomberg, all of them and when found guilty cut the head of the snake off.
What about the white RINO who hugged the cop who shot her
The net benefit of Ashli’s murder is that a dead Republican is a Democrat voter.
The Good Lord knows her and has already vindicated her. And one day He will catch up with the black ‘cop’ who shot her. Let’s hope for his sake there was no racist hatred in his heart.