Do you think the Capitol police would have been justified in shooting every unarmed protestor who entered the Capitol?
You're like a CT who "dismisses" Bugliosi's "53 separate pieces of evidence" by saying Oswald leaving his ring behind doesn't make him the assassin. As you know, and regularly apply with regard to the Oswald evidence, it's the
totality of evidence that's important. Before you went on to say I avoid "consequences", you left out a lot about Babbitt:
- Babbitt was a fervent believer in QAnon conspiracy, a violent political movement classified as a domestic terrorist threat. Some on the far-right conveniently dismiss QAnon as personal delusion. Babbitt believed in a worldwide satanic cult in which liberals where raping children: she once tweeted about "Biden the kid raper".
- Babbitt has a history of violence and stalking. She was charged with malicious property damage. A former girlfriend of her husband had to get a protection order against Babbitt, after Babbitt assaulted her with her car.
- The day before the insurrection, she tweeted: "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!" After hearing Trump encourage her cult, Babbitt said "We are walking to the Capitol in a mob." So not some innocent bystander caught up in the group of thugs.
- Babbitt was at the forefront of a vicious anti-democracy mob who were trying with flagpoles and helmets to breach a hallway set-of-doors. Video shows her being lifted or raising herself up so she could, I believe, reach through a broken window panel and attempt to unbolt the doors. She was shouting "Go! Go!" and had earlier shouted threats to the police. She would likely have been aware that a pointed gun was being aimed her way.
- Police shoot people if they think--even mistakenly should it turn out--the victim is armed (possibility of mistake here), refusing to comply or respond to de-escalation pleas (for sure), or the officer feels his life of that of others is in danger (wouldn't doubt it myself).
And you are really citing her political opinions as a justification for the police to kill her? Scary.
Not as a singular reason. Her hateful comments reveal she was radicalized, which may have been behind her belligerent attitude when she refused to comply and instead threatened officers and tried to breech the barricade.
I view this through the prism of the law. Not race or politics. If someone is committing a crime, then arrest them. That goes for BLM and Jan. 6. I think Chauvin should have been given the death penalty. Not because he killed a black man but because he committed murder. I have seen no reason to justify the killing of Babbitt.
Because you're radicalized by Fox News and Breitbart, you will never see a reason (other than your preconceived gas-light version) regardless of what level of investigation takes place, how many people in law enforcement commend the officer doing his duty, or the officer himself explaining what he felt was necessary.
She was one among many unarmed protestors that day. Why kill her amongst that large crowd? No answers have been provided but simple trespass is not a sufficient justification to shoot her.
Who ever said "simple trespass"? Gas-lighting. The DoJ said when the officer fired, "it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber". Watch the video. It was chaotic, there was no compliance, no willingness to deescalate, and--had the barricade been breech as Babbitt sought--there would have been an immediate violent threat to officers and Members of Congress.
Here in America everyone is entitled to have their own political opinions. That is not a justification to kill them.
Like that applies. More gas-lighting.
You on the far-right (with your sense of entitlement) are such moaners when it comes to owning up to what you did. Blacks, brown and the poor have been talking it on the chin for centuries.
Donald Trump--the guy you voted for twice--thought people should be assaulted for their political views. The new book "Frankly, We Did Win This Election" by a Wall Street Journal reporter, says Trump was gleeful to see BLM protestors beaten up. "Crack their skulls!" and "Just shoot them!" Trump would say, adding he wanted the military to "beat the f--k out" of the protestors.
Maybe things are different in Canada where everyone has been brainwashed to have the same liberal woke ideas. Easier there where there is no diversity. It is all talk with no consequences.
Would like to see your location under your name. Also, what state(s) did you grow up in.
