Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt says he
was 'prepared to do the same thing'
to protect Trump
Washington Examiner,
by
Jeremy Beaman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/26/2021 9:30:59 PM
The Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 defended himself against criticism from former President Donald Trump and others who claim he should not have used lethal force on the 35-year-old Air Force veteran.In his first public interview since the Capitol riot, Lt. Michael Byrd said it was "disheartening" that Trump, in particular, said Babbitt was "murdered," adding he would take the same actions if he was in charge of protecting the former president.
Bull $hiite
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Listened to some of his drivel on Tucker. If ever there was an affirmative-action hire...
And, Tucker, you claim to be a gun guy. Glocks do have safeties.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/26/2021 9:39:31 PM (No. 894201)
Maybe there is a DC lamppost with his name on it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/26/2021 9:43:14 PM (No. 894204)
I fail to understand how shooting and killing an unarmed woman "potentially saved" others from injury or death. Unless we see the video , I will never be convinced that she was a threat. I understand that things happen during high stress events. If she was shot by accident admit it and stop making yourself out to e some type of hero.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/26/2021 9:46:33 PM (No. 894208)
Byrd said he has received death threats. Oh, I get it, he’s a victim.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
panther361 8/26/2021 9:49:58 PM (No. 894214)
If an intruder were half inside my home's window and I dispatched him with a pistol, you can gamble your entire hind end I'd be up on murder charges as well as a wrongful death suit from his relatives.
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The coward shot an unarmed woman that never threatened him nor anyone around him. How would you like to have that on your conscience for the rest of your life? Affirmative Action at work again.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rochow 8/26/2021 9:51:17 PM (No. 894216)
This piece of trash is a lieutenant??? Give me a break!!! That liar should not be near a gun!!! There was police behind Ashli who knew she was unarmed, she was 5.2'!!! He left a loaded gun in a bathroom! I guess why he was promoted! I would not allow this POS to protect garbage put out for collection!!!!! She was not listening/obeying to his commands.
So, that Floyd saint I recall did not obey commands. Hmm, the police did not shoot him. The flake died because of the drugs he had imbibed. Anyone tested the lieutenant what drugs he had imbibed??? Ooops, I forgot, when black cop gives command you better move yesterday or he will really, really use all of his 'power'!!!! Filthy dirt bag!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
davew 8/26/2021 9:56:15 PM (No. 894223)
If a police officer shoots an unarmed person in any city in America the city attorney's do a detailed investigation to determine how this could have happened. Did the officer believe the person was armed? What type of weapon was perceived to be involved? If the answer is, "I didn't see any weapon that was a threat to me but I killed the person anyway" that is murder under color of authority. Did this officer fear for his life from Babbitt being pushed through the small window head first with her hands pinned beside her? Were her hands above her head and empty? This story is not over.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Namma 8/26/2021 10:00:37 PM (No. 894228)
Bull shiff
Babbitt was killed on purpose.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
john56 8/26/2021 10:18:27 PM (No. 894240)
I wouldn't trust this Pelosi Keystone Cop to be within three area codes of President Trump or any Republican leader.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/26/2021 10:21:50 PM (No. 894244)
#3 I'll supply the rope.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
downnout 8/26/2021 10:30:08 PM (No. 894254)
Pompous jerk, so proud of himself. Enjoy it, murderer. The civil lawsuit is on its way.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/26/2021 10:45:23 PM (No. 894269)
Praying for Karma for this POS!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/26/2021 11:26:37 PM (No. 894309)
Lester Holt is a piece of crap - he never asked how a 5'2" 125 UNARMED woman was threatening? There were armed gauds behind him, a simple body in the way would have stopped her. Also when Byrd tried to portray himself as the victim, I wanted to throw up, he's receiving death treats well so is Babbitt's widower.
Defund the Capitol Police.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/26/2021 11:32:48 PM (No. 894316)
So, out of the dozens of Capital police officers there that day, with all the chaos in and out of the building, with the rather passive attitude than many officer displayed towards protesters and those that entered the building, out of all of that this man believed that he needed to fire one - exactly one - bullet at a woman trying to come through a window?
He is incompetent beyond belief. He left his gun unattended in a public location. He was substandard, is substandard, and should be brought up on manslaughter charges at minimum. I pray Ashly’s family pursues a civil suit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/26/2021 11:36:48 PM (No. 894321)
May Michael Byrd spend the rest of his days hearing noises behind him and seeing things in the shadows.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/26/2021 11:48:00 PM (No. 894329)
Bottom line there was no reason for him to shoot her. If he were in any other police department across the country he certainly would have been held to account. He is lucky he did not shoot one of the other Capitol Police Officers who were behind the victim.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/27/2021 12:05:03 AM (No. 894338)
Watched him in replay on Tucker. What a squirrel. Eyes darting back and forth. And saying it didn’t make any difference whether Ashli was armed or not. Lester Holt tried to prime him to say that he had waited for some time before deciding to shoot, and he sort of agreed, but I saw the first video, taken by John Sullivan aka Jayden, before it had had an opportunity to be cut. Byrd was hiding in a room off to the immediate left of the glass-paned doors to the Speaker’s Lobby, which were locked and barricaded with a significant pile of heavy-looking furniture. Ashli went up on the back of a man she’d requested boost her so she could see. Byrd’s forearm and hand holding gun with his finger on trigger suddenly came out of that side door and he immediately shot. There was no hesitation. There was no warning. Both the video and the sound quality were very good on that video.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/27/2021 12:11:37 AM (No. 894341)
Ashli was a tiny woman. I’d be surprised if she was 5’2 and she didn’t look like more than 110#. She couldn’t see over all the taller men clustered in front of the glass paned doors. I watched her circulate through the crowd - I could see the American flag design on her backpack - and she finally got a tall man in front of the broken glass paned door to boost her on his back. One witness said she wanted to take a picture with her cell phone. She was almost immediately shot and pitched straight back, falling all the way to the floor.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/27/2021 12:12:42 AM (No. 894342)
Michael Leroy Byrd is a lying coward and murderer. Lester Holt should be so ashamed.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/27/2021 12:20:53 AM (No. 894348)
Derek Chauvin is in jail for being just as callous with George Floyd, but this excuse for a human being is treated as a hero, by both Dems and Repubs. DC is a real bizarro land.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/27/2021 5:31:05 AM (No. 894413)
After 7 months to prepare and the advice of a multitude of lawyers, this is the best TRIPE he could come up with? The MURDERER Michael Byrd and his handlers are treasonous scum deserving of criminal prosecution and hanging!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
vhs68 8/27/2021 9:46:39 AM (No. 894603)
Well #6, the first thing you should do is pull that 'just shot intruder' all the way into your home. Problem solved. Just saying...................
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/27/2021 11:13:59 AM (No. 894733)
1000 Times what #1 said!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/27/2021 4:12:57 PM (No. 894988)
#7, this malignant narcissist doesn’t have a conscience. If he did, he would have confessed and taken his due punishment or at the very least gone off to the wilderness to live under a rock and never be heard from again. That he went on television to whine and declare himself a hero tells us exactly who and what he is.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
privateer 8/27/2021 4:46:34 PM (No. 895029)
'prepared to do the same thing' to protect Trump. There is an extra p word in that statement.
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