Attorneys representing Ashli Babbitt’s family recently released a statement.
Babbitt was unarmed when she was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer at the Capitol on the day of the riots.
For some reason, the name of the officer who shot her has not been released.
Babbitt attorney’s statement appears below:
The shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021 by an unidentified U.S. Capitol Police Officer was an unjustified use of deadly force which violated her constitutional rights. It is clear from video footage that Ashli did not pose a danger to the officer, or any other person, when she was shot. Ashli was unarmed. She did not assault anyone. She did not threaten to harm anyone. There was no excuse for taking her life.
It is a universal law enforcement standard that a police officer should use no more force than necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. At 5′ 2″ tall and 110 pounds, an arrest of Ashli could have been accomplished by a single trained officer with a set of handcuffs. At the time of the shooting, there were over a half-dozen police officers in close proximity to the Speaker’s door where Ashli was standing. Some of those officers had just allowed protesters access to the door by stepping aside. Other officers, dressed in full tactical gear, stood among the protesters just a few feet behind the door. Still others stood casually at the opposite end of the Speaker’s Lobby, unconcerned with the activities of Ashli and the protesters around her. All of these officers were in a position to have aided in the apprehension of Ashli if it was necessary. Given her background as a 14-year veteran of the Air Force, it is likely that Ashli would have complied with simple verbal commands, thereby making the use of any force unnecessary.
However, the officer who shot Ashli never attempted to arrest her. Nor did he call on his fellow officers to arrest her. Instead, he fired a shot into her chest. Witnesses confirm that the officer did not give Ashli a single verbal warning prior to firing. In fact, Ashli was not even aware that the officer was present, as he was located in the doorway of a room off to the side of her field of vision.
To date, the officer who shot Ashli has not been identified. Neither the Capitol Police nor any other governmental authority has given an account of the facts surrounding the shooting. There has been no official explanation or justification for the use of lethal force in this matter. This lack of transparency impedes the public scrutiny which is necessary to hold government officials accountable in a free society. It also interferes with the ability of Ashli’s family to obtain justice for their loss.
My law firm and I represent Ashli’s husband and family members. We will continue to investigate this matter. We intend to take appropriate legal action when our investigation has been completed. We call upon the Capitol Police as well as the United States Congress to make public the facts and circumstances of Ashli’s shooting.
If you have information regarding this matter, you may contact us and receive updates on Twitter at Justice for Ashli Babbitt @ForAshli. Emails can also be to the address alone.
Terrell N. Roberts, III
Roberts and Wood
Riverdale, Maryland
I was one of the 42k outside the Capitol who went in solidarity with my countrymen on 1/6/21 hoping the politicians would take a pause and consider the irregularities before, during and after the election. I saw the barricades moves and folks being waved inside. I thought, I’m going to get to see inside the Capitol today…. base on the actions of the policemen. The crowd was friendly, accommodating to families and elderly alike. No violence.
Until police began shooting rubber bullets and teargas…..
Something that has always bothered me though—if Congress was so afraid after the so called “armed insurrection”, why did they return ASAP? A woman was murdered, yet they all filed back in without so much as a pause. Yet on March 4th 2021, the House session was cancelled due to a conspiracy theory, despite thousands of armed National Guard and multiple barriers and fences. There was practically no traffic in DC that week, no sign of any type of gathering. It makes no sense.
“Take a pause”? 2 months, 60 failed court cases, congressional hearings. I think that’s plenty pause.
Thank you for your witness.
Shes not dead. We’re watching a movie
The fact that barriers were removed and entry doors to the Capitol were opened by police to allow protesters in makes the whole thing look like certain politicians were using the incident for their own advantage, particularly when one notes the fencing around the building and the military presence have continued to this day while Commie Joe and the Congressional left wingers try to enact executive orders and legislation that violate our Constitution. Are they afraid of the American people?
And sadly none of the mainstream media or in the administration will care because she was a white Trump supporter. Where is the Department of (in-)Justice? Crickets.
The democrats ridiculously claim that the treatment” of the rioters would be “different” if they were BIPOC. Everything they accuse the police of during BLM demonstrations, excessive force, unnecessary use of deadly force, using force against people trespassing or violating borders, was committed against Ashli. The difference is they would have been fed and showered and given a place to stay and released without charges.
She wasn’t a black, oppressed criminal. That’s why they don’t care. The speaker of the house must resign over this senseless killing. She’s a American and has rights on government property. Polosi, and shummer need to resign over this American patriot who was murdered by congress!!
Did she even have a funeral ?
Several armed cops were behind her
I’m glad you’re addressing this murder of Ashly.
The media has been silent on this, indicating to me that there is a government conspiracy in this killing.
First she is shot in the neck then she is shot in the chest???? Either way if a .45 was used there was still very blood. I call horseshit.
She is still alive.
A conspiracy of what? She was climbing through a barrier and breaking in unlawfully. It was a tragedy we all witnessed it, no conspiracy though! How could anyone witnessing the mayhem on January 6th defend the chaos and violence caused by the protestors that very dark day in history.
If I’m jumping through a broken window to enter a premise I’m not supposed to be entering, Especially where there are Lawmakers. I would expect to get shot and consider myself lucky if I didn’t get shot. She would not have been climbing through a broken window-, she was breaking he law but they say oh if she had known there was a cop there, she would not have?! Its terrible that she was shot, But she should not have been doing what she was doing. That she served our Country makes what she did even worse- she should have known better.
Look for her. I believe you will find her and she won’t be dead.
Really, you think trespassing is worthy of deadly force? That’s an incredibly ignorant argument, willfully or otherwise. I can’t even shoot an intruder entering my own home without first issuing a loud and clear warning to retreat or face being shot first. Nah, that’s not how law works, Pete. If she was holding a gun then maybe, but only after clear directions to drop the weapon.
she wasn’t trespassing so much as barging into a place to attackthe people cowering in fear there. get real.
You might be right if she was the first one busting into the building, but as I hear it there were many already in the building when she was shot. Not a strong post.
Finally, someone talking sense here. What i said elsewhere. Lucky more weren’t shot. Many more had death and destruction on their minds. Clear threat to life.
That it hasn’t been addressed indicates there is a lawsuit. Nothing more to it.
If this were true explain this video
https://youtu.be/_n4YMZAkYYM
Your link to that YouTube video is banned.
That link to the YouTube video is now banned. Can’t see it.
Dear Sharyl, A heads-up: the email listed at the bottom of the article, above, doesn’t work: [email protected]
You may want to let them know that people who may not be able to access Twitter– for some, ahem! reason–
Won’t be able to reach them, at all.
This hurts so much to read! Ashli deserves internment at the Arlington Cemetery! #RIP
from the video footage i saw, there were at least 10 people around her and noone knows anything? same thing with officer sitnick. i smell something funny.
I’m so glad this is being investigated. I don’t think her death was justified, and the fact that the identity of the officer is still being kept secret (they will obviously LIE and say it’s “for his own protection”) says a lot about how confident they are about his innocence, in her (murder) death.
As an aside:
Nancy Pelosi’s nut-job ex-general recommends establishing a military style “rapid response” unit to quickly respond to events like the one on January 6th at the Capitol.
I have a question?
Did the FBI and Capitol police have “advanced” warnings that the protest would be massive and that violence (as with ANY crowd of THAT size) could possibly result?
… Yes.
Did Trump request 10,000 National Guard be there just in case?
… Yes.
My point being, what type of response is more “rapid” than having the crowd control people (National Guard, or otherwise) … ALREADY THERE? …. like THEY SHOULD HAVE … but CHOSE not to.
This is typical government (Congress and Law Enforcement agencies) abuse of power and another effort to “always take advantage of a crisis” [ even an exaggerated one–like Jan. 6th ] just like they did after 9/11. There too, did they have “more than enough of the dots” (meaning all the warning signs a red flashing lights about what was being planned and who was involved) to connect. They even had their communications captured and COULD HAVE stopped them (pre 9/11) but THEY screwed it up a dozen different ways. Then what happened?
What ALWAYS happens, they want: MORE MONEY–they got it… they get BILLONS and BILLONS more now every year to spy on everything we say and do; yet, they had all the information they needed to stop it (9/11) but they messed up. It wasn’t a matter of MORE people being hired into government, more surveillance equipment, more illegal/unconstitutional spying, less privacy … it was a matter of people DOING THER JOBS–correctly and professionally.
End of rant. Thanks for reading, and thank you for all that you do.
Robert P.
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Let me also add that the DC Police Captain pleaded with them to allow NAT Guard in, I believe the DC chief made the request six times and Pelosi and Mayor Bowser declined bcuz of optics.
Now Pelosi and Bowser are no strangers. In 2016 when Seth Rich was shot, Pelosi and Bowser got to the hospital before the ambulance carrying Seth Rich, they needed to fleece him for that uSB with HRC’ and Podesta’s emails on it.
So no surprise that Pelosi and Bowser declined assistance from the Nat Guard, although Trump repeatedly offered, and DC chief of Police pleaded.
DC Chief resigned immediately after Jan 6th
Ashli was the wrong color. Had she been of color the police officer who cowardly shot her would have sparked nationwide riots & looting. Memorials to her would have been painted in the streets, etc. Since she was the wrong color the cowardly so-called police officer who shot her is still on duty, I expect. He may have been the right color as well.
The “officer” did his part and was swiftly sent back home to Hollywood along with the other players! There’s plenty of videos!
And if she was black, most of y’all here would have called the shot justified. Let’s be real. Or if you were in your house with a gun and someone violently smashes a window and climbs in, you would fire and it would be completely justified self-defense. Many more could have been justifiably shot that day. With over 50 cops injured, i think law enforcement had crazy self-restraint.
Good Grief lady! I’m from a family of police and none of them can figure why a real officer would have shot her!!!!! Something was very wrong!! It just doesn’t add up!
Where is her obituary? What hospital did she go to? Who was the coroner? Where are audio and video tapes? Why is there no footage of the ambulance arrive or leaving? There were 1000 cell phones.
OMG! NO ONE asks these questions!!! Thank you!
Because It was all an act. SHE IS NOT DEAD.
Are you kidding me? Have they covered it up so completely by not reporting it that you’re believing their law? Be very careful my friend.
Typo. I meant lie, not law.
Look for the slow motion explanation showing how all the actor were involved. I’m sure it is being hidden by the boys who will meet their maker.
Good point. Where are all the pics. From all cells phone.????
all very good questions that no one is answering
Paperwork is the key here. This law firm SHOULD have access to the coroner’s report (autopsy required by DC law for violent homicide), MPD police report, Capitol Police report, DC civilian oversight board investigation for Police use of force, DC Fire or AMR ambulance transport records, hospital admittance information and time of death , physician/ME pronouncing death etc… This lawyer could EASILY release any of this info.
You can order anyone’s Death Cert., online via the Office of Vital Statistics. I believe the COD will not be included unless you’re an immediate relative.
I saw two different recordings from two locations. I’m not sure if it is still up, but the Antifa guy had it on his Twitter. The one who went in to “document” the sixth.
Early on, I saw one very short clip of Ashley bleeding and being wheeled into an ambulance. No doubt there were many phone videos taken. Probably the bias social media banned every last one of them.
The obvious question , is she dead?
It seems to me that the cover-up of this crime is part and parcel to the duplicity by the authorities on the 6th of January, 2021. Hopefully, real journalist like yourself will get to the truth and give the American people the real account of what happened on that day. Watch your back!
And the cover-up continues. MSM still reporting that 5people were “killed” in the protest. Only Ashli was killed (by a cop). Three died of natural causes (not killed) and the government is hiding the cause of death of the police officer ( not beaten to death with a fire extinguisher as previously reported by MSM). Is there no truth in government anymore?
No honesty at all. Hopefully there will be a peaceful reckoning? If not
, so be it.
Our FBI director Wray has not been honest yet again ?his testimony on the Hill was full of political rhetoric. He never mentioned the truth about Ashli or Sicknick. It was all about blaming & shaming Trump supporters as white supremacy kooks. I despise him for his complicity in the attack against conservatives and freedom fighters.
He is me information: It was all BS, she was not shot and she is not dead. I didn’t believe it happened as it was going on and I don’t believe it today. Staged and cover up.
AL ROLO,You are a perfect example of HOW stupid americans have become,I hope you live in a DEMONRAT city,THE US AIR FORCE will teach all you morons what they think about anyone killing one of their own…
You are not alone, many people believe this too. If not, then why hasnt this been handled like millions of others with a Death Certificate (available to order on line)
Agree
The day after he died, Sicklick’s brother stated that his brother died of natural causes….a stroke caused by a brain aneurysm. He further asked on behalf of the family that his death not be politicized. So much for his request! They just now released the info from the doctor? Jan 6 was a setup by Dems. No doubt in my mind!
Because he is orchestrating the Cover Up. Many people believe Ashli is not dead, there is no obituary either.
Nasty Incestuous Cesspool we call our government. Criminals
DemonRats are behind the entire Lie. They’ll do anything to make Trump look bad, even kill innocent Americans.
It ain’t just the Dems. Look at what Bush and his family did! 911 was planned. Just another false flag like all the ones before it and after. We have a shadow government run by the alphabet soup groups and they are lawless. They do what they want! Remember… “You can’t handle the truth!” You really can’t.
I can handle the truth and have issues with some government methods but not for a second believe Bush had anything to do with causing 911.
Of COURSE, Bush didn’t plan 9.11! Bush couldn’t plan his way out of a wet paper bag. [It was Cheney and the Israelis. ] Bush DID, however, help with the coverup.
Bush was complicit . Do your homework and maybe your beliefs will change. As a former Bush supporter it was hard for me to fathom. Look up the research of historian-investigative journalist Ryan Dawson and the work of Christopher Bollyn for starters. The idea of taking down the Twin Towers was discussed by Israeli Ultra-Zionists twenty years prior to 9/11. Ryan Dawson produced a 5 hour documentary with tons of video and documental evidence of what the truth is.
Then you are very ignorant to the real truth you keep your eyes closed
No, it’s not just the Democrats, Homer; but there’s no need to bring up crimes committed twenty years ago. It just deflects and diverts attention from the worthless and totally politicized Justice Department that Joe Biden has put in place.
Agree
Keep after them, the swamp is very deep!
It is indeed…!!!
If the Dept of Injustice can’t identify the incompetent officer and charge him with at least involuntary manslaughter, then load up and charge the DOJ with obstruction Justice!
I have always questioned if that was a “plain clothes officer” as his arm showed a suit coat not a uniform. Or was it in fact one of the Congressmen, whom many have stated there were a couple of them that drew their personal arms. Where’s the transparency?
Is it David Bailey?
Where are the Republicans? Why are they allowing so many innocent people to languish in prison? In solitary confinement? Beaten, starved, no court appearance dates, no access to attorneys , friends or family?
How is this in any way justifiable?
Instead they’re either hammering R v W or fundraising.
They clamored to reinstate FISA, the Patriot Act against the will of those who enabled their worthless, milquetoast, homogenous flat asses elected?
Between the corrupt establishment Uniparty and the clueless religious zealots, where are the members who are supposed to represent “We The People”?
Aside from DeSantis, Nunes, Gaetz ,Burgess Owens, VanDrew,Vernon Jones and Ron Johnson…Brian Mast, Kat Cammuck?
If they’re hiding the officers name from public then someone gave him authorization to shoot if anyone crosses the line. They do the same if you cross the barricade in the white house if the President is present. The Feds are not playing when corporate owned officials are around. Biden kisses little girls in front of his colleagues. Thats the type of power they have. If they can f your little girl in front of you. They can pretty much do anything they want. That’s something to take a drink and think about and let that seep in for min.
Yes, they are desperately trying to shut this case down. I am so glad her family and lawyers are not allowing themselves to be silenced. May God give them courage to pursue this case to a truthful and just completion.
Why isn’t there an obituary?
Good question. People believe she is alive,
I’m angrier with the cowardly, despicable lack of response from the Republican electorate.
Why do we vote for these losers? America is one step from over and they remain SILENT!