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
Why was there reports and footage of her being shot in the neck. Now its changed to being shot in her chest, and why is there absolutely nothing regarding her funeral and when it was, something this big, the media would of been all over it.
The media only likes the numbers and shock factor. “5 killed in Riot”. But only Ashli was killed by someone, a cop or some other government official. Protester killed by cop wouldn’t be the headline they were looking for.
Why is the identity of the shooter being protected? If this was a Cop someone would have outed him by now. One possibility answer: the shooter was private security for a member of Congress (maybe Pelosi)?
so her fans won’t attack him physically and he can’t be easily sued.
This appears to be the man everybody’s wondering about:
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/
Just tried tweeting this. So far unable to do so. Great story!
Where do we donate to make sure Ashli’s assasin gets life with no parole, if not the needle?
At this point, its not even certain that the shooter WAS a Capitol Police officer.
Its been pointed out that, since a large number of officers in the Capitol Complex are “plainclothes”, they affix reflective red & white tape to their pistol’s slide on the side where they insert their fingers in the trigger guard. This ensures that, should the need arise to produce their weapon, the red & white tape is displayed as the weapon is unholstered and presented, letting other officers know that the weaponholder is a fellow officer, and reducing the risk they’re accidentally shot. Also, in the past, the majority of Federal LE officers have carried Glock Model 22 pistols chambered in .40 S&W.
The video/images of Ms. Babbitt’s murder show that the shooter’s pistol is NOT a Glock, and does NOT have the “Don’t shoot me! I’m a cop!” red & white warning tape affixed.
Why not?
I did see a video of the shooting. There was no warning. The officer moved forward and fired at Ashli. There were other people including fellow officers in the line of fire. The shooting appeared both unjustified and reckless. Was this really a police officer? Hard to believe that the shooter had ever been trained to use a weapon. It violated every aspect of training I’ve received. It was an assassination. I was and am speechless.
As I noted here earlier, there are many indications the shooter was NOT a Capitol Police officer (e.g., type of weapon used, lack of red 7white tape on slide like ALL other CPD officers had in the videos, etc.)
This would explain both the shooter’s lack of weapons discipline and the unprecedented lengths being gone to to conceal their identity.
Wake up people the reason the shooters name has not been released is that she is not dead but they are all crisis actors. Everyone in the video said she was shot in the neck and that she was dead within 21 seconds of falling to the floor.
They rendered zero medical help at the time she was shot even with a medic on the scene within 10 seconds of her falling out of the window. All the people around her where just pointing at her and screaming she is dead. Police were at the door while they were beating on the windows right before the shooting and they just walked away and did not try to keep the crisis actors out. Wake up people we have all been lied to. This is the most traitorous thing to ever happen in my life time!
If there was no smashing of windows and climbing through them, there would have been no reason to shoot. If the protestors remained outside police lines that day, there would have been no arrests, no shootings, nothing but first amendment right of free speech. Protestors became murderous criminals that day and babbitt’s shooting was 100% justified.
Please. Shut up as you know little about anything but vocalizing your liberal hatred and ignorance. You and your ilk are the reason our country is in the state it’s in. Disgusting ?
I think the cop that shot her committed suicide
i really believe Ashley was a sacrificed. i think antifa spotted her and herded her inside with the intent to kill her. the black dude who shot her was only playing his role in the False Flag.
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Really
Was that cancelled culture or opinion that may have so truth?
So you moderate a very clear possibility of what may have happened.
I suggest you watch and listen to the audio of her killing.
Again, when you need to break into something, just maybe you were not wanted or invited
This was NOT and “election”. THIS was the “insurrection” the Dem-Lib-Left accused our president of. It is typical of their Evil pattern of behavior. They did this same thing on Trump’s last impeachment when HE drew attention to Biden’s blatant Blackmail of Ukraine’s prosecutor! When he withheld one billion in U.S. funds until they fired him. He was investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter for “money laundering”. So to “get even” with Trump, they “drummed-up” FAKE charges over a perfectly legitimate phone call to the new leader of Ukraine. These police and FBI and CIA and entire DOJ, including the disgraced Bill Barr COLLUDED against our sitting POTUS! They just wanted SOMEONE to KILL as an example to others and poor Ashlie drew the unlucky hand. This was cold-blooded MURDER.. plain and simple and that officer (a disgrace to his peers) must be held responsible for his COWARDLY actions.
I didn’t think that Ashli had committed a capital crime, punishable by firing squad, carried out by the Capitol Police, in the moment. What country’s Capitol did this happen in?
If this is the USA, then there will be a trial, only it won’t be for a defendant named Ashli Babbitt. The cover-up by the Capitol Police implicates them in an actual capital crime.
So glad to see this action.
I’m a retired police officer and upon seeing the video I had the same questions the attorneys are asking.
whatever happened to back the blue? As in Back the Capitol Blue? You’re a retired police officer and can’t even defend one of your own from what was clearly self-defense and defense of our elected leaders of BOTH parties? Thank you for your service but your viewpoint is pathetic.
After watching FBI director last week saying he can not release the name you can be sure there is a bona fide cover up on this one. I believe the name will NEVER be released. The standard answer is “It’s still under investigation”. You will hear that repeated until no one asks anymore – as it fades into history. The press is in on this one also, by being silent.
I’m not certain that Babbitt was killed by a Capitol Police officer. If I recall correctly, the shooter was in plainclothes and did not appear to identify himself or say anything to Babbitt before shooting. It has also been pointed out that the shooter wore cufflinks, a bit out of character for an on-duty cop. The identity and position of this individual are critical, even though they may go against the Pelosi narrative.
Exactly! I think the shooter wasn’t a police officer but perhaps someone should take a look at the actual hearing to see who was wearing cufflinks?
If you listen to the protester in orange outside the doors, at this time the gas is ready broken on most of them doors and that protester say he’s got a gun, he says this not once but two times.
When he says this he is at the very left door, the officer was just a few feet inside. There is zero doubt that this officer hears the he’s got a gun.
Does that officer understand that the protester was saying the officer had a gun?
I don’t think so, that officer very well may have thought a protester outside the doors had a gun.
Then within seconds she starts to climb in the window of the door and was shot.
Again, the protester that said he’s got a gun was just a couple feet from the officer and the glass was broken. There is no doubt in my mind that there may have been confusion of the officer not knowing who else may have had the gun and did his job to protect those inside that chamber.
You are not invited when when you are breaking down doors to get inside.
Her death is a travesty. The shooter should be brought to justice. He/she is a murderer.
For what? Self defense? if you were in your house with a gun and someone breaks a window and comes in, don’t tell me you won’t defend yourself and your home and family. Same here.
A really dumb example and nutty argument.
Imagine, yea just imagine if Ashli was “wearing a different color jersey” ( all you “identity politic HATERS” with an IQ above room temperature know who you are ) – yea, when do the riots begin???
Ashli was murdered. The communist press aren’t interested, while the corrupted government looks the other way. How sad for the patriotic Ms. Ashley, and her family to ge treated with such disregard. Where are the chants to ‘Say her name?’ Ashli Babbit is a Patriot that deserves to be recognized as one. I recognize her as one!
So do I.
Well, if nobody knows who shot this American Hero, how do they know it was a Capitol policeman?