Report: The Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Had a Long History of Disciplinary and Training Problems, Democrats Rewarded Him With a Promotion and a $36,000 Bonus

Michael Byrd should be charged and tried.

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley writes:

I have previously written about the dubious investigations of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6th and the alleged violation of the standards for the use of lethal force by the officer who shot her. I strongly disagreed with the findings of investigations by the Capitol Police and the Justice Department in clearing Captain Michael Byrd, who shot the unarmed protester. Now, Just the News has an alarming report of the record of Byrd that only magnifies these concerns.

Liberal politicians and pundits often refer to multiple deaths from the Jan. 6th riot. In reality, only one person died that day, and that was Babbitt, who was shot while trying to climb through a window. However, the media lionized Byrd and portrayed the killing of the unarmed Babbitt as clearly justified. That is in sharp contrast to the approach that the media has taken in other shootings by law enforcement.

An unjustified killing by police on that day was inconsistent with the public narrative pushed by the pundits and the press. (keep reading..)

This is the last video recorded by Airman Ashli Babbitt.

January 6th, 2021, Ashli was needlessly murdered at the U.S. capitol by Lt. Michael Byrd.

She was a veteran and a peaceful protester, posed zero threat as she had a few police officers within arms length of her when Byrd… pic.twitter.com/o35ZmFt8Z1

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) January 6, 2024

The new report includes an account that Byrd had prior disciplinary and training issues before shooting Ashli Babbitt. The concern is that the political environment — and powerful interests in Congress — demanded that Byrd be cleared… https://t.co/ElX5C7oWcu

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 21, 2024

…The media lionized Byrd and portrayed the killing of the unarmed Babbitt as clearly justified. An unjustified killing by police on that day was inconsistent with the public narrative pushed by the pundits and the press.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 21, 2024

Tragic Ashli Babbitt and the buried Jan. 6 truth

By Miranda Devine, NY Post, Nov. 24, 2024:

So now we know that the cop who fatally shot unarmed Donald Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.

There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, “improperly” firing his gun at a car near his home while off duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a “racist a–hole,” again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight.

Three entries in Byrd’s internal affairs record are missing, wrote subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) in a letter to Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger.

GRAPHIC: Video shows the exact moment Michael Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt

THEY KILLED HER!

THEY DENIED HER VOTE!

THEY DENIED HER COURT CASE!

THEY CENSORED HER!

THEY SPIT ON HER!

THEN THEY SHOT HER!

SAY HER NAME!

HER NAME IS ASHLI BABBITT!

SHE WAS A VETERAN! pic.twitter.com/wc6qXURA1y

— Rachel #TRUMPWON (@Rachel4Trump_45) August 14, 2024

Left’s convenient spin

Loudermilk is asking questions about Byrd and everything else about the Jan. 6 riot that was used so effectively to tarnish Trump and his supporters and that provided the excuse for the Biden administration to weaponize federal law enforcement against them.

The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot because then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was denied intelligence about potential threats that day and denied National Guard backup that he was begging for.

In the cold light of hindsight, a new Trump administration will ensure that the narrative of J6 is rewritten to reflect the truth of that tragic day instead of the lies spun by Democratic Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi’s J6 committee.

Sund is a crucial witness to history. Pelosi (D-Calif.) made him her scapegoat, firing him immediately, but she knew he had begged for the National Guard to assist his vastly outnumbered troops.

He needed the permission of the Capitol Police Board, and Pelosi and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) controlled the two sergeants-at-arms who had to give him the OK. McConnell’s guy deferred to Pelosi, and Pelosi’s guy kept saying he had to “run it up the chain to get Pelosi’s approval,” says Sund.

But the National Guard didn’t arrive for hours, delayed not just by Pelosi but by officials at the Pentagon who had become so Trump-deranged that they believed the president would repurpose the troops to declare martial law and try to hang on to power.