Enemies of the State
On January 6, 2021, a single shot was fired during what the media and the Biden Democrats have dubbed an “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. That shot, fired at close range by Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, struck and killed unarmed, 35-year-old Air Force Senior Airman Ashli Babbitt. Video of the shooting shows that Officer Byrd gave no warning before firing, and fellow officers testified that they heard him give no warning before shooting.
Babbitt, who had served 14 years in the Air Force, with eight deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Qatar, was soon branded an “insurrectionist” and a “terrorist” by media commentators. FBI Director Christopher Wray gave cover to these charges by claiming that the January 6 actions were “behavior that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism.” The Biden Department of Justice, which had previously shown its harsh anti-police prejudice by hammering local police over their responses to rampant crime and violent riots, was suddenly indulgent of the Capitol Police, declining to prosecute Officer Byrd. The House January 6 Committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi was uninterested in looking into the shooting of Babbitt (or any of the many other troubling aspects of January 6) because that would detract from the committee’s partisan objectives of prosecuting President Trump and demonizing — and then criminalizing — his followers as “insurrectionists,” “white nationalists,” and “domestic terrorists.”
Infuriated over the defamation of her dead daughter and the unwillingness of the government to investigate her death, Ashli Babbitt’s mother, Micki Witthoeft, has repeatedly protested outside the Capitol. On January 6, 2023, the second anniversary of the Capitol melee, Witthoeft was arrested by Capitol Police for “jaywalking” while memorializing her daughter’s shooting death.
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