Posted on 08/26/2023 6:10:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, who shot Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, has now been promoted to the position of captain.
Byrd, who has been in the position of lieutenant, shot Babbitt as she was trying to make her way into the Speaker's Lobby of Congress through a window on Jan. 6, 2021. After the fact, Byrd did not face any charges.
Babbitt, 35, was a supporter of former President Donald Trump as well as an Air Force veteran. She died after being taken to Washington Hospital Center.
The officer is now set to be promoted to Captain after the Jan. 6 incident, according to Roll Call.
A slate of other promotions among the Capitol Police are also set to happen in the coming weeks.
Byrd previously told NBC that Babbitt, who was unarmed at the time, was an "imminent threat and danger to the members of Congress" and that he just wanted "the truth to be told."
He recounted in the interview that he felt very afraid when he was in the chamber with the protestors gathering in the Capitol building. He said that there were "reports of shots fired through the House main door onto the floor of the chamber."
Those reports later turned out to be false and he told NBC that his ignorance of whether she was armed "did not" alter his decision to shoot. He also stated that he had "saved countless lives."
After Byrd's conduct was internally investigated by the Capitol Police, it was determined that his "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.”
The investigation goes on to say that his actions may have "potentially saved Members and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters."
Later, internal documents from the Capitol Police showed that there was "no good reason" to shoot Babbitt.
Kill a civilian, get promoted. Just a more lethal version of a government official being promoted to their highest level of incompetence.
Simple.
He’s a murderer.
And he walked.
Imagine, for a moment, if the races were reversed. White cop, black woman, you do the math.
Could Captain Byrd be a relative of Admiral Byrd?
Just a prank question.....Captain Byrd is a murderer....never mind?
No, we should be demonstrating, night and day, in from of the White Hut and Capitol Shack, to bring that murdering piece of shit to the Justice Ashli Babbitt, We and our Nation deserve.
And he’ll be getting a HUGE demotion when He stands before God and gives account for his slaughter of her.
In Your Face, patriots.
Thanks, Abraham Lincoln. You should have told Frederick Douglass to get bent & all the freed slaves were going back to Africa.
May he rot in hell one day.
Killed someone for no reason.
RE: he had “saved countless lives.”
What was that term again? Oh, yeah: BS.
Boston Strangler? Unabomber? Zodiac Killer?
No, uh, a cheerful 98 pound woman who wasn’t endangering anyone.
Due to black privilege, this man was not treated like the many white officers who WERE in danger, such as being overpowered by a meth head or lunged at by a butcher knife wielding ex-con in a kitchen or shot at by young thugs who hate cops. Such officers were stripped of their badge, weapon, dignity and reputation, subjected to review boards and trashed in the media.
Such as the “gentle giant” Michael Brown who first physically abused a small shop clerk while he stole cigars and then was beating officer Darren Wilson almost to death (”I knew one more blow and he was going to kill me because I couldn’t fight back any more.” Brown was shot but Officer Wilson (properly exonerated in court) had to give up his life in Ferguson, MO and become a witness protection person somewhere else to save his life. Many more such stories.
This DC killing was the murder of Ashli Babbitt. Pure and simple. But not only unpunished but rewarded.
Let true justice take its course.
At the new Captain’s location.
At night.
We promise to look the other way.
He should have been prosecuted. I will never visit the Coke House again, its a house of murder approved by the Dems.
Then, get promoted because you are a protected killer.
You are just Another lethal/worthless POS version of a government official being promoted pass their highest level of incompetence, so far!.
RE: Ashlii Babbitt didn’t die.
My browser blocked that bitchute site for some reason.
When and if this newly promoted captain is seen in public, I wish him every single ounce afforded by John Q. and Jane Q. Public, to be visited upon this individual in the manner called and defined by Maxine Waters.
Beyond that, I do not expect nor desire any other visitations upon that human being, of the corporeal fashion, but for individuals so moved, I “suggest” actions that just might, I’m not completely sure, maybe, possibly ‘workings to manifest ethereal manifestations, of the like one might read in a Charles Dickens novel.
I wonder how many promotion points the boy was awarded to murder an unarmed white woman.
Resume enhancement.
Promoted for a job well done.
The bird needs to be persecuted.
Wonder how he does when someone actually is a threat?
If the government regains its legitimacy, this dude needs to be investigated for manslaughter.
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