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Keyser Söze wrote: On 1/7/21 4:25 PM, wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:42:21 -0500, Wayne B wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:16:01 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 13:22:10 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: A woman shot and killed by police during the storming of the US Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob has been named as a 14-year veteran of the US air force and of four foreign military tours, including to Iraq and Afghanistan. Ashli Babbitt, 35, had travelled to Washington DC from San Diego, her husband told the local news station KUSI, adding that she was a passionate Trump supporter. Three other people died from ?medical emergencies? during Wednesday?s siege of the Capitol, according to the Washington DC police chief, Robert Contee. Contee has confirmed to reporters a woman was shot by Capitol police ? a federal law enforcement agency responsible for protecting the US Congress ? but has not released further details. Less than a day before she joined the Trump loyalist protest, Babbitt, an avowed and public Trump supporter as well as a subscriber to a number of alt-right conspiracy theories, had vowed the insurrectionist movement could never be halted. ?Nothing will stop us ? they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours ? dark to light!? she wrote on Twitter. ***Babbitt, 35, was reportedly shot as she and other rioters tried to break through a barricaded door in the building where Capitol police officers were armed on the other side.*** On video footage circulating on social media, a single gunshot is heard during an attempt to storm the barricaded door. Other footage shows police attempting to perform emergency first aid on a woman lying on the floor bleeding. Babbitt was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound but later pronounced dead. On Twitter, Babbitt described herself as a veteran and a *libertarian.* Her social media account is filled with declarations of support for Trump and condemnation of November?s presidential election, which Trump lost. She also retailed many of the conspiracy theories shared by alt-right groups, including one about a vast network of high-profile and powerful paedophiles. Babbitt regularly retweeted controversial lawyer and conspiracy theorist Lin Wood, a high-profile Trump supporter who has litigated several of the president?s failed lawsuits contesting the election result. https://tinyurl.com/y527xldk She was a *libertarian* and Trump supporter. What a combination. The only thing missing is that "imminent threat to the officer's life". === The guard was hired to protect government property and members of congress. He was issued a firearm to enforce that. No threat to his own life was required to justify deadly force. It's a similar situation to an armed guard anywhere. You better read up on the justified use of force again before you walk out the door with your gun. There are cops going to jail for shooting people trying to protect property. The cops have the same obligation to demonstrate an imminent fear for their life as you do. In fact, in DC, the cops have about the same "stand your ground" protection as we do as civilians in Florida. You don't have to retreat but you can't shoot until you are ready to demonstrate that imminent fear. Civilians there have the obligation of retreat. News reports stated the woman was part of a crowd using stanchions and flag pole holders to bust through glass doors and windows to gain entrance to other parts of the Capitol. She got shot in the act of doing that. She wasn't on a street corner selling loose cigarettes. She was breaking and entering. Can you in Maryland shoot someone who isbreaking in to your house, even though you can get out of the way?

SHE DIDN'T BREAK IN.

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