Conservatives post the name of Ashli Babbitt's alleged shooter on social media after Trump invokes Capitol rioter
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Via: tessylo • 3 years ago • 89 commentsBy: Kieran Press-Reynolds, Insider
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Conservatives post the name of Ashli Babbitt's alleged shooter on social media after Trump invokes Capitol rioter
Conservatives are demanding to know the identity of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol Riot in January. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
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Ashli Babbitt died after she was shot during the Capitol riot on January 6.
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Conservatives and far-right activists are posting the identity of the cop they say killed Babbitt.
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The renewed online attention comes after Trump invoked Babbitt's name in an email to supporters.
Six months after the riot at the US Capitol, conservatives - encouraged by former President Donald Trump - are spamming social media with the alleged name of the police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt.
On Wednesday, multiple top posts on a fringe far-right message board called for "justice" for Babbitt and shared the alleged name of her shooter. One post, which was one of the site's most popular threads of the last 24 hours with more than 3,000 likes, called for the arrest of the officer.
One Twitter user shared the alleged name of Babbitt's shooter on Wednesday and questioned why he hasn't been "tried or arrested" yet, reaching 8,200 likes and nearly 3,000 retweets. It was not immediately clear whether this violated Twitter's Terms of Service. A Twitter representative did not immediately return a request for comment.
British talk show host Piers Morgan wrote an article for the DailyMail published Wednesday in which he claimed to know the identity of the shooter - though he did not reveal it - and said the name must be released to the public for the sake of "transparency," no matter whether you believe Babbitt was a "traitor or a patriot."
Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran with a history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories like QAnon online, was one of five people who died as a result of the riot in Washington. During the riot, an officer shot Babbitt in the left shoulder as she attempted to surge through a broken window and pass into the Capitol building, according to The New York Times.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to bring criminal charges against the officer after it found in an investigation that he did not violate Babbitt's rights. Insider is not sharing the name of the alleged officer, as it has not been verified.
"The investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber," the DOJ wrote in a statement .
Still, Babbitt has become a major symbol for the right, with Republicans including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia calling for "justice" for Babbitt's death in a speech on the House floor in May and Fox News host Tucker Carlson demanding to know who killed Babbitt in a June segment. As Talia Lavin reported for New York Magazine, Babbitt is now the "most visible" hero of the pro-Trump Capitol insurrectionists.
The renewed online attention comes after Trump invoked Babbitt's name in a four-word email to his supporters last Thursday: "Who killed Ashli Babbitt?" In a press conference on Wednesday, the former president again referenced Babbitt, falsely claiming that there "were no guns in the Capitol except the gun that shot Ashli Babbitt."
On Tuesday, the six-month anniversary of the Capitol riot, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona followed Trump by issuing a letter "in remembrance" of Babbitt.
In response to the renewed interest in Babbitt's death, many Twitter users criticized conservatives for treating the rioter like a martyr.
"Conservatives arguing that Ashli Babbitt was unjustly shot & demanding the name of the officer who killed her confirms that they believe the role of police is to murder Black people," the grassroots activist @BreeNewsome wrote on Twitter.
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"Conservatives are demanding to know the identity of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol Riot in January. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Ashli Babbitt died after she was shot during the Capitol riot on January 6.
Conservatives and far-right activists are posting the identity of the cop they say killed Babbitt.
The renewed online attention comes after Trump invoked Babbitt's name in an email to supporters.
Six months after the riot at the US Capitol, conservatives - encouraged by former President Donald Trump - are spamming social media with the alleged name of the police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt."
I'm sorry she's dead but she was in the wrong place at the wrong time...by her choice
I'm not. anyone of the insurrectionists that breached the capitol building during the constitutionally mandated joint session of congress should have been dropped in their tracks. sedition is treason.
I won't shed a tear for her. She chose suicide by cop and it is all on her.
She was unarmed and attempting to climb through a window, according to the video.
She was of no immediate threat to the shooter.
Her killers name and address should be revealed and the DOJ should investigate
Exactly.
That sounds like "she was invading private property"... which most NT conservatives would agree is motive for shooting her.
No, the DOJ is now investigating these traitors/domestic terrorists and rightly so.
And the officer knew she was unarmed because...........???
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Too bad, during the insurrection, the officers were not able to read the insurrectionist's minds to determine if they were armed, or an immediate threat to the people the officer was protecting.
So you feel all information about current investigations should be made public, even to the suspect's supporters? Because the entire insurrection is still under investigation in general, and that specific shooting was also investigated just like any other line of duty investigation is.
She needed both hands to hands to climb through the window
There is a new invention out, it is called a holster. It allows free use of both hands while holding a gun in an easily accessible location.
Yep.
I have to agree here. She was intentionally trying to force her way into a place she had zero business being in. In my opinion the officer was justified as he had no way of knowing whether she was armed or not, even if the weapon was holstered. She was told to cease and desist which she obviously ignored. It grieves me that she was shot and lost her life, but she largely brought it on herself. Don't blame the officer for doing his job.
For once we agree.
When a gun is in the holster and both hand are otherwise being used for entering a door, it us not eminent danger and deadly force is not necessary. Besides she didn't have a holster either. If she did and if she had a weapon she would have been armed
Thanks to trumpturd and his dumbturd supporters.
BLM protests are off topic.
awww.... don't take away their false equivalencies...
now you see tessylo, here's a perfect example. if you would publish your seeds in friendly confines, examples of comments like these, that are basically seeds designed to end run imposed restrictions on site abusers, from tea party and teavangelical members that can't get any traction on their own pathetic seeds, would instantly disappear.
Great post.
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Goddamn it, I never learn.
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This appears to be legitimate breaking news and there is no mention of any threats of harm coming to Lt. Byrd in the article
I personally believe his home address should be revealed so that concerned citizens may peacefully protest his murderous act.
... as long as it was a restroom used primarily by insurrectionist supporters.
he was doing his job and the traitors at the doorway were verbally warned a number of times. I don't guess you realize whose 500+ names and addresses are going to be made public record during their upcoming trials for the 1/6 DC coup attempt, do you?
Everyone of those fools (insurrectionists) will have their information posted to public record by the courts. Then we can go be "concerned citizens may peacefully protest his murderous act." To quote Animal House, this will be great!"
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What are you a 'victim' of?
You wanted them to get it?
well, it is where you go to get rid of shit, although their maga hats would probably clog the toilets.
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Are you referring to comment 1.1.1 Bob?
No.
She got what she asked for.
The rest of those scum/garbage/trash white supremacist domestic terrorists are all lucky they're not dead now.
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Hopefully, you don't condone that comment.
Should all these alleged rioters be considered innocent until proven guilty?
And be accorded due process of our laws?
What death wishing?
They're not 'alleged rioters', they're right wing scum/garbage/trash white supremacists domestic terrorists.
Where are they not afforded due process by our laws?
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Saint Ashli of Babbitt - Martyred Saint of the Traitors!
Whoever it was that shot her need to be given a medal.
For those who are arguing semantics: If I am carrying a golf club (3 wood) I threaten you and approach you while swinging the my golf club at you, am I unarmed? Or do I NEED to have a firearm in my possession to be "armed?"
that's what I love most about our state. psycho-fucks that cross a home or car threshold without permission can legally receive a gunpowder lobotomy.
She had neither
Goddamn hero right there, too bad more of the insurrectionists didn’t get what she did, exactly what they deserved.
You and several others in this thread have espoused the same thing. I must, wholeheartedly disagree. Just like George Floyd, none of the insurrectionists committed crimes that had capital punishment as an option. The deaths that occurred should not have.
That being said the officer was investigated and determined that he committed no crime or violated any policy, and that I FULLY AGREE WITH. The death was unfortunate, and I am sure the officer would like to take it back if he were able, but the blame lies squarely on Babbitt's shoulders.
I also find it humorous that many of the people that are against the officer, and wanting charges to be brought, are also the same people that stand up for their own rights to shoot intruders in their homes. A little hypocritical there....
They carried out an insurrection, IMO that is absolutely deserving of capitol punishment. We will just have to agree to disagree.
I fully agree with that. Have a good day Thrawn31.
That means they have broken in and are an immediate threat.
The door in that hallway was not breached
Of course it was.
As usual, you have no evidence.
So you are claiming that if someone showing clear intent to do harm is breaking into your house, you would not do anything until they are fully inside AND are an immediate threat?
AND let's not forget that she was already IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING....
LOL!!!!!!
The capital building is a public space and is not anyone's home.
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Execution is definitely justified for insurrection in my eyes.
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Each of the accused has to be convicted of a specific crime. Simply being in the crowd is not punishable by death. Almost all of accused will be released or only charged with misdemeanors. In the meantime, they are being held without bail
This blood lust for vengeance by many on the left is troublesome
wait until you see what happens the first time trump sycophants overturn the results of a free and fair election. when the constitution goes out the window, due process is right behind it.
No need for Chicken Little histrionics over things that haven't happened.
all's fair when it comes to defending the US constitution from domestic terrorists.
No trial or anything. Who made the capital police judge jury and executioners
No insurrection, just a lot of histrionics.
Insurrection/traitors/treason
Exactly how inept is the Biden Justice Dept. which has failed to indict a single person who was there on Jan. 6 with treason?
I see you cheer abysmal failure.
Good job.
"Exactly how inept is the Biden Justice Dept. which has failed to indict a single person who was there on Jan. 6 with treason?"
So many scumlappingshitbag racist domestic terrorists white supremacists scum trash vermin treasonous scum - so little time!
Give Mr. Garland some time!
Also I see how you moved the goalposts there
So 6 months being too short to charge someone is the ONLY excuse you could drag up?
Pitiful! LMAO!
When/where did I say that?
Thomas Clay Jr.
I have quite deliberately removed all of you from my life and I’ve felt an overwhelming sense of peace after blocking my last relative from ever dripping their toxic Republican poison into my mind ever again.
I wanted to set a few things straight with the Republicans who used to be in my life to help vent some of the anger I feel at your dastardly deeds the last few years when you put Trump in my life and fell down the rabbit hole that you are all now in.
There was once part of me that thought the health of our nation was dependent on having two virile parties keeping the other in check lest we head down the path to ruination. But I don’t think that’s the case anymore.
Experience has taught me that if you could reason with a Republican, they wouldn’t be a Republican. Have you noticed that trait amongst yourselves? You all no longer change your minds about anything because you think you are right about everything and for those of us who can change our minds, it’s so tiresome to have to listen to the endless parade of grievances you all have.
That’s true of the majority of the nation as well. We’re all sick and tired of you all constantly bitching and moaning about things that do not effect you in any way but you feel the need to bitch about them anyway. Does that ever get old with you?
There is a list of things you hate that can fill a stadium. The only thing that you all seem to love anymore is hypocrisy and gaslighting.
I remember when you all believed that Russia was our enemy and had they attacked us or tried to attack our allies, you all would have been first to call for sanctions or a military response. Now you all seem to be under the impression that Putin is our friend.
You all used to claim to be the party of ‘family values’ but then you elected a man who cheated on all three of his wives and paid a porn star hush money to not tell anyone about their tryst in a hotel room. Then you all had the audacious gall to say he was a ‘Christian’ despite the fact that he never set foot in a church for his entire adult life *and* has committed every deadly sin and broken every commandment.
I remember when you all used to say you support the blue and were the party of ‘law and order’ but then a bunch of you went to our Capitol and began to assault law enforcement and even maiming them. Now you want to sweep that under the rug and act like we didn’t see you doing it or hear the deafening silence from all of you when we all did.
I remember when you all chanted, ‘lock her up’ without specifying what charge you would like her charged with. I sure can imagine what you all would have said if President Obama had a bunch of his closest advisers indicted and he pardoned them! But what happened when it was your man pardoning his cronies and henchman? Nothing but crickets from you all.
We can all imagine what you would have said if President Hillary had appointed Chelsea to work in some official capacity. The howls of nepotistic outrage would have been deafening but your conspicuous silence when Jared and Ivanka were using gmail to conduct government business said that you all didn’t really care about Hillary’s emails, you only cared about setting new levels of hypocrisy the world had never seen before.
You all never shut up about the Clinton Global Initiative and how it did something illegal that you heard about somewhere but can never say exactly what was done. *THEN* you get to see the Trump Foundation get dissolved after it was proven in court that it had stolen money that *you* donated for veterans *and* children’s cancer and again, you said absolutely nothing but you did nod your heads in agreement that it was ‘political.’
Was the Trump University dissolution also political? Because if it was, why did Trump pay the $25 million fine levied against it? Did you even listen to the testimonials from the people who sued Trump for fraud? Do you think they were Democrats? They weren’t, they were Republicans.
I don’t know how to put this very gently but what the rest of the planet knows is that you were bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray and basically conned by a conman. The sooner you sober up to that immutable fact, the sooner we might pull you out of that cult that you’ve transmogrified into.
You elected a crook who ran a criminal organization. Of course it’s going to be hard to ever admit that because like I said before, you all aren’t known for changing your minds about anything even when presented with overwhelming evidence.
I know this is going to be a hard pill to swallow because there were 75 million of you who thought he should be president again and the 81 million of us who made Joe Biden president are truly horrified that you would yet again attempt to suicide our democracy out of some sense of sheer petulance.
Just once I wish one of you who says, ‘there were a lot of irregularities in the election’ would actually say aloud what they actually are because I pay attention to this stuff as do a lot of journalist who would like nothing better than to win a prestigious Pulitzer Prize by proving there was some manner of fraud but of course, there was none except by people in your party doing it. All of the convictions for voter fraud in 2020 have been Republicans, all of them.
Dan Patrick offered a $1 million reward for evidence of election fraud and nobody collected but that hasn’t stopped you all from lying about it has it? Hillary conceded the day after the election and Trump is still telling the lie that the election was stolen even in the states where Republicans are in charge of the election. So you don’t like those terms either.
If you can’t win a free and fair election where you do everything you possibly can to keep black people from voting, then just give up on elections huh? That’s the prevalent attitude amongst your gerrymandered politicians. Can’t you all win in a contest of ideas if your’s are so much better?
Ah, there’s the rub. You can’t can you?
Hate doesn’t seem to flourish as much among the kids coming of voter age now does it? Tucker might pull in the 55-65 demographic on Fox but that ‘the NSA is spying on me’ nonsense doesn’t sit too well with them youngins does it?
I guess you all aren’t for the ‘free market’ of ideas anymore since you’ve lost the likes of George Will, Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson and Nicole Wallace. Now you have Marjorie Potater Greene and Lauren Boobert as your ‘brain trust’ and that’s nothing to be proud of except at the klan rallies that have spewed ‘America First’ for over a hundred years now.
You’re a party full of racists and child-traffickers and potatoheads who tried to overthrow an election you lost. That treason isn’t lost on any of us and no matter how hard you try to sweep that under the rug or bury it with your endless lies, we all know what you did. The most troubling thing about all of this is that none of it was a deal-breaker for you.
You were more than willing to sit by as those traitorous insurrectionist tried to murder our elected representatives to overthrow our government so you could do what? Make Trump dictator or king?
And you all have the unmitigated temerity to call yourselves ‘patriots’?
You’re not patriots, you’re traitors to every principle this country was founded upon.
The actual patriots of this land see you for who you are and we will never surrender to the brainwashed cult you’ve become.
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As opposed to left wing ones in all of the other cases of that?
What are you talking about?
Of the nearly six hundred insurgents charged with criminal misconduct at Trump's January 6th Stop The Steal Rally and Attempted Coup exactly zero zip nada none of them were BLM or ANTIFA. NOT EVEN ONE!
Oh come now, many have admitted to being there....just check out the social media and YouTube
Why hide the name of the cop? Cops shoot people all the time and their names are published without the slightest concern for repercussions. I see no reason to treat this cop any differently. Everyone else who participated in that event is having their name published. Why hide this one person?
In no other case, would such a claim of an investigation with zero transparency be accepted by the public. But here, it’s supposed to be satisfactory? Ridiculous.
Of course you don't.
What sane, legitimate reason can you provide for different treatment for the cop?