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.


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She was a *libertarian* and Trump supporter. What a combination.

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