Documents from the DC Metropolitan police appear to show that the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt had no reason to do so, and knew more or less immediately he’d screwed up. Fox News has the story.
A Capitol Police sergeant, whose name is redacted, described seeing Babbitt climbing through a broken window, but did not witness her holding a weapon, according to a portion of the documents received by Judicial Watch.
"Sergeant [redacted] observed a white, female protester was climbing through an opened area where the glass pane had been knocked out. He heard a gunshot and this female fell backwards through the opening. The crowd on the other side of the barricaded east doors, began to step back and some put their hands in the air. Sergeant [redacted] observed Lieutenant Byrd step back just after hearing the gunshot. He did not see anything in the female protester’s hands prior to the gunshot," the Internal Affairs Division report stated.
So it appears the only person actually killed at the Capitol on January 6 - Ashli Babbitt - was shot by Lieutenant Byrd while climbing unarmed through a broken window. One cannot be very threatening while climbing through a broken window. Judicial Watch got the DC documents through an FOIA request.
I fail to understand how Lieutenant Byrd was exonerated by his organization, when no other officer fired his service weapon. Those who call this demonstration an "insurrection" are hallucinating; it was a somewhat rowdy crowd, more boisterous than anything else and probably guilty of no more than criminal trespass and minor vandalism. BLM and Antifa would be embarrassed to stage a protest this passive.
