More than 500 pages of internal documents from DC Metropolitan Police concerning the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol on Jan. 6 reveal witness accounts stating she was not holding a weapon at the time of her death and how "upset" the officer was after shooting her.
"These previously secret records show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt," stated Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents through a May 2021 FOIA lawsuit. "The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for the over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S. Capitol Police."
Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed during the storming of the Capitol by a bullet fired by Capitol Police officer ??Lt. Michael Byrd. The documents from the DC Metropolitan Police department show that witnesses did not see Babbitt holding a weapon prior to her being shot, and reveal conflicting accounts of whether Byrd verbally warned Babbitt before shooting her.
I get the impression in the testimony shown by the other police officers in the room at the time of the Ashli Babbit shooting, that they are humming and hawing and trying to cover for Byrd. But they still let on that Michael Byrd was highly distraught and "upset" after the shooting.
Because Byrd saw she was unarmed, and therefore he was guilty of a serious crime. And in virtually any other police department, they would not have closed ranks and covered for him. And instead, Byrd would have been immediately suspended, then fired, and then be on his way to jail for a killing that was completely without justification.
