Ashli Babbitt's widower to shooter: 'Suck it up'

The widower of American veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by a single gunshot from a police officer during the Jan. 6 vandalism at the U.S. Capital, told a broadcast audience he has little tolerance for complaints from the police officer that he's gotten death threats since killing Babbitt.

"Suck it up," Aaron Babbitt said to Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, who also gave his first interview since the killing this week.

"I don't even want to hear him talk about how he's getting death threats and he's scared," Aaron Babbitt said during an interview on Fox News's Tucker Carlson, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.

Aaron Babbitt cited his own experience since Byrd shot his wife, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran, who was killed when she became part of a crowd that broke windows and doors at the Capital to enter that day.

It happened when Congress was scheduled to – and did – adopt the electoral results that turned over the White House to Joe Biden. Those results raised enough questions that there were lawsuits in dozens of states, and there continue to be audits, or plans for them, in several states.

What is not in question, however, is that local and state officials during the 2020 count violated the U.S. Constitution by arbitrarily ignoring or changing state laws regarding elections. The Constitution allows only state lawmakers to do that.

Further, that there were outside influences on those counts is without doubt, as leftist Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook wealth turned over some $350 million to mostly leftist election officials to help them "run" their operations.

Aaron Babbitt explained he's been getting death threats, too.

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"I've been getting death threats since Jan. 7 — two, three, five, 10 a day — and all I did on Jan. 6 was become a widower. So, you're going to have to suck it up, bud, and take it," Babbitt said.

Byrd just hours earlier was interviewed about the woman's death by Lester Holt on NBC.

He said he was "doing my job" and said it was "disheartening" to hear "very vicious and cruel" threats.

Former President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have described Byrd's shooting of Ashli Babbitt as no more or less than murder.

But the police department for which he works cleared him, and the Department of Justice said it wouldn't charge him with anything.

Terry Roberts is a lawyer representing Babbitt's family and reportedly is assembling a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department that could seek millions in damages.

Roberts called the police department's clearance of Byrd a "one-sided inquiry."

Byrd told Holt that he considered it his job to protect public officials, and would have killed someone in defense of President Trump, too.

"If he was in the room or anywhere, and I'm responsible for him, I was prepared to do the same thing for him and his family," Byrd said.

Earlier, NPR, while characterizing the events as an "insurrection" even though none of the hundreds arrested has been accused of insurrection, or even conspiracy, reported the police department's statement claiming the officer acted within department policy.

"After interviewing multiple witnesses and reviewing all the available evidence, including video and radio calls, the United States Capitol Police has completed the internal investigation into the fatal shooting of Ms. Ashli Babbitt, which occurred in the Speaker's Lobby on January 6," the agency said.

"USCP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer's conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer's own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury."

Byrd's controversies have not been limited to the shooting. In February, Roll Call reported Byrd left his service weapon in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center complex where it was discovered later by another Capitol Police officer.

A source said Byrd addressed the incident at the officer roll call and said he will be "treated differently" because of his rank as a lieutenant. Roll Call said it was not clear what exactly the lieutenant meant by the comment.


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Did the asshole actually think he was going to get sympathy?

remember joran van der sloot.    People knew he was going to kill again after he got away with murdering that girl...and we were right.  Natalie Holloway.

same with this guy.  He's gonna pull that again and next time he's not gonna be so lucky.

and what is the point in putting him on national television. Did they actually think this would bring the thing to a close?

I hope someone shoots the murdering bastard...in the line of duty.

"knowing that she was unarmed would not have changed his decision to shoot'. THAT right there.....says he is a murderer. and he gets away with it.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/jonathan-turley-statements-by-capitol-police-officer-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-demolish-the-two-official-reviews-that-cleared-him/

Liberal Jonathan Turley...says the officer's remarks on Lester Holt's show, shows that he was  exonerated wrongfully.      This is on the investigators that exonerated him.  

All Corrupt. videos at link.

Numerous aspects of what unfolded during the Capitol riot have been hotly debated in the months since it happened, but few have been as contentious and emotional as the debate over the officer-involved shooting death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt.

The 35-year-old Air Force veteran was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6th after she tried to climb through a glass-paneled door after parts of it had been shattered by another rioter, identified as Zachary Jordan Alam.

Babbitt, who reportedly had been standing next to Alam, was shot.


In April, the Biden Department of Justice announced they had closed the investigation into the fatal shooting and would not be pursuing criminal charges against Byrd, citing “insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution.”

Just last week, the Capitol Police confirmed a report from NBC News that they had exonerated Byrd, a 28-year veteran of the force. They stated in a press release that Byrd – who they did not name – “will not be facing internal discipline” because in their view Byrd’s conduct “was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer’s own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury.”

On the heels of the USCP exonerating Byrd, he did an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt, identifying himself publicly for the first time.

Instead of clearing things up, the interview only intensified the debate over his actions and whether they were justified. Here’s a key moment from their back and forth:


Video shot by a person in the crowd showed two officers posted in front of the door. Heavily outnumbered, they eventually stepped aside.

Byrd said he had no knowledge that any officers were there. Because of the furniture stacked on his side of the door, he also couldn’t make out how many people were on the other side or whether they were carrying weapons.

“It was impossible for me to see what was on the other side,” he said.

But he did see the person now known to be Babbitt start coming through the broken glass.
“I could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack or what the intentions are,” Byrd said. “But they had shown violence leading up to that point.”

Byrd, who says he has been in hiding since that day and has faced death threats, told Holt it was the first time he’d ever fired his weapon.

Watch an edited version of the interview below:


The extended interview can be viewed here.

Georgetown University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley, who has long been a critic of official media narratives surrounding the shooting, said that instead of confirming that the respective decisions by the DOJ and the Capitol Police not to pursue action against Byrd were the right ones to make that Byrd “proceeded to demolish the two official reviews that cleared him” after he admitted he could not determine whether Babbitt was armed:




He expanded on his opinion in a piece published at The Hill:

While the Supreme Court, in cases such as Graham v. Connor, has said that courts must consider “the facts and circumstances of each particular case,” it has emphasized that lethal force must be used only against someone who is “an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and … is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.” Particularly with armed assailants, the standard governing “imminent harm” recognizes that these decisions must often be made in the most chaotic and brief encounters.

Under these standards, police officers should not shoot unarmed suspects or rioters without a clear threat to themselves or fellow officers.

[…]

Legal experts and the media have avoided the obvious implications of the two reviews in the Babbitt shooting. Under this standard, hundreds of rioters could have been gunned down on Jan. 6 — and officers in cities such as Seattle or Portland, Ore., could have killed hundreds of violent protesters who tried to burn courthouses, took over city halls or occupied police stations during last summer’s widespread rioting. In all of those protests, a small number of activists from both political extremes showed up prepared for violence and pushed others to riot. According to the DOJ’s Byrd review, officers in those cities would not have been required to see a weapon in order to use lethal force in defending buildings.

I’m not a legal analyst, but I think Turley makes some good points here.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —

Calypso Jones wrote:"knowing that she was unarmed would not have changed his decision to shoot'.    THAT right there.....says he is a murderer.  and he gets away with it.

IF he had death threats before, imagine what the idiot is going to get now after making such a stupid comment publicly. And that SMUG look.....I want to slap him every time his face comes up on tv or the computer.

I'm really thinking that he is covering for his boss. I bellieve he was told to shoot anyone that comes through and I want to know who gave that order!

He came from the other side of the hallway to take the shot. He shot by other cops. He was in a stance, aimed and fired. It was not a nervous reaction. He did exactly what he was intending to do all along.

Didn't the Capital Police Chief resign soon after this ? Why isn't anyone questioning him and the decisions that led up to the refused additional security ?
Somebody better start giving us answers .