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2022-01-18 -Land of the Free

Video Analysis SHows Babbit Tried to Stop the Attack

[Epoch Times] Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, a video analysis shows.

Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as "violent," a "rioter," or an "insurrectionist" who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby.

Video clips appear to show she tried to prevent the attack, not join it.

Video shot by John Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, shows that Babbitt tried to stop the violence against the Speaker’s Lobby at least four times before she climbed into a broken window and was shot by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. At one point, she was so distressed at the violence, she was jumping up and down in frustration.

"About five minutes prior to her getting shot and killed, all of those officers, Officer Yetter and the other officers in the hall, the MPD cops, they were all joking with her and laughing with her," Hansen said. "They were having conversations and joking and laughing. Then not even five minutes later, Michael Byrd comes and executes her."

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-18 11:14|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Maybe that's why she was shot.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-01-18 14:05|| 2022-01-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Ocean Beach resident, Abu

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-18 14:24|| 2022-01-18 14:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The cops around her clearly stood down and walked away from her, indicating that there was absolutely no reason to consider her or her behavior a threat in any way.

Ashli Babbitt was murdered, full stop

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-18 14:41|| 2022-01-18 14:41|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess is the accidental discharge and subsequent cover-up is going to be revealed. Negligent homicide seems likely!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-01-18 15:45|| 2022-01-18 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Still no convincing reason why she climbed into that window. The one she was concerned about being broken.

Posted by KBK 2022-01-18 22:58|| 2022-01-18 22:58|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ That's not clear from the video. What is clear is that she threatened no one: the behavior of the Capitol Hill Police support that conclusion beyond any reasonable doubt.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-18 23:49|| 2022-01-18 23:49|| Front Page Top

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