U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt

U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt

U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
She was part of a horde of people who broke into the capitol and started assaulting police officers and she was actively leading the charge through a barricade that was erected to protect people escaping the capital.
I don’t know how you watch those videos and think “yeah, she was innocent.”
The big tragedy of Jan 6th was that too few of the insurrectionists got shot.
Another tragedy: the story of the guy who tased his balls enough to have a heart attack and die is not true 😢. He did have a heart attack and die, but didn't get tased in the balls.
It's easy, you just don't watch the videos. I watched the video of her getting shot. She is warned numerous times by the DC police officer (I think was who ended up firing on her I can't remember) before breaking in and climbing through a window to the area literally right outside the Congressional chambers.
I mean ... What else was supposed to happen there? There was a few dudes guarding that door vs a bunch of angry rioters/cultists/pieces of shit. They didn't really have a choice but to shoot her or they would have had a flood of people coming through there.
I saw some pretty interesting human behavior on display that day watching it real time with video from inside and out.
One interesting thing, when they shot Ashli everyone behind her changed their tune REAL quick and ran away. Shit got real for them. In all honesty I think the police/national guard when they arrived should have used lethal force that day. I understand the logic behind not and I can't disagree with it completely, largely out numbered and no way to know what kind of firearms were in the crowd. Of course it made sense to try to delay and not escalate into what could have been a shoot out. However, I think that plan also emboldened the bad actors there.
Another interesting thing - I watched hundreds of people file through a velvet roped off line before someone decided to undo the ropes so people could actually move around. It was hilarious. Thank God the people that stormed the Capitol were a bunch of morons, I'm sure that saved some lives.
One of them yelled "medic" like someone would just be there ready to respond.
A bunch of LARPing dipshits who didn't realize how close they were to ending up just like Babbit.