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JONATHAN TURLEY: Shooter of Ashli Babbit Makes Shocking Admission:

 

“That’s my job.” Those three words summed up a controversial interview this week with the long-unnamed officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6. Shortly after being cleared by the Capitol Police in the shooting, Lt. Michael Byrd went public in an NBC interview, insisting that he “saved countless lives” by shooting the unarmed protester.

 

I have long expressed doubt over the Babbitt shooting, which directly contradicted standards on the use of lethal force by law enforcement. But what was breathtaking about Byrd’s interview was that he confirmed the worst suspicions about the shooting and raised serious questions over the incident reviews by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and, most recently, the Capitol Police.

 

Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran and ardent supporter of former President Trump. She came to Washington to protest the certification of the presidential Electoral College results and stormed into the Capitol when security lines collapsed. She had no criminal record but clearly engaged in criminal conduct that day by entering Capitol and disobeying police commands. The question, however, has been why this unarmed trespasser deserved to die. . . .

 

At the time, some of us familiar with the rules governing police use of force raised concerns over the shooting. Those concerns were heightened by the DOJ’s bizarre review and report, which stated the governing standards but then seemed to brush them aside to clear Byrd.

 

The DOJ report did not read like any post-shooting review I have read as a criminal defense attorney or law professor. The DOJ statement notably does not say that the shooting was clearly justified. Instead, it stressed that “prosecutors would have to prove not only that the officer used force that was constitutionally unreasonable, but that the officer did so ‘willfully.’” It seemed simply to shrug and say that the DOJ did not believe it could prove “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”

While the Supreme Court, in cases such as Graham v. Connor, has said that courts must consider “the facts and circumstances of each particular case,” it has emphasized that lethal force must be used only against someone who is “an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and … is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.” Particularly with armed assailants, the standard governing “imminent harm” recognizes that these decisions must often be made in the most chaotic and brief encounters.

 

Under these standards, police officers should not shoot unarmed suspects or rioters without a clear threat to themselves or fellow officers. That even applies to armed suspects who fail to obey orders. Indeed, Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby recently was convicted for killing a suicidal man holding a gun to his own head. Despite being cleared by a police review board, Darby was prosecuted, found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though Darby said he feared for the safety of himself and fellow officers. Yet law professors and experts who have praised such prosecutions in the past have been conspicuously silent over the shooting of an unarmed woman who had officers in front of and behind her on Jan. 6.

 

In the eyes of the establishment — including those silent “law professors and experts” — she deserved to die because she was a Trump supporter. It’s all about that.

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/569827-justified-shooting-or-fair-game-shooter-of-ashlii-babbitt-makes-shocking

 

 

Plus, the usual apparatchik entitlement: “Politico reported that Byrd previously was subjected to a disciplinary review when he left his Glock 22 service weapon in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center complex. He reportedly told other officers that his rank as a lieutenant and his role as commander of the House chambers section would protect him and that he expected to ‘be treated differently.'”

 

 

Well, he wasn’t wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

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JACK DUNPHY: Capitol Police Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks (but Shouldn’t Have). 

 

“Understand that it is not only Byrd himself who will be accused in the wrongful death suit yet to be filed. His department will also be named when the suit is brought in the jurisdiction the plaintiffs choose, and in speaking with Holt, Byrd exposed some departmental deficiencies a jury may see as having contributed to Babbitt’s death.”

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/jack-dunphy/2021/08/29/lieutenant-byrd-speaks-but-shouldnt-have-n1474053

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

JACK DUNPHY: Capitol Police Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks (but Shouldn’t Have). 

 

“Understand that it is not only Byrd himself who will be accused in the wrongful death suit yet to be filed. His department will also be named when the suit is brought in the jurisdiction the plaintiffs choose, and in speaking with Holt, Byrd exposed some departmental deficiencies a jury may see as having contributed to Babbitt’s death.”

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/jack-dunphy/2021/08/29/lieutenant-byrd-speaks-but-shouldnt-have-n1474053

 

 

 

What did she die of? “Departmental Deficiency” 

 

YIKES

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22 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

This post intrigues me.  You took the time to seek it out, read it, and consider it important enough to share with the group.  My assumption—and I could be wrong here—is that you think it bolsters a case against Jim Jordan for…something.

 

So, I read it, looking for some sort of smoking gun.  The article can be summed up as follows:

 

1. Politico asked Jim Jordan if he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6.

 

2. Politico said Jordan said he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6. 
 

3. Newsweek, recognizing that there is no compelling interest to a story that suggest a journalist received a benign answer to a question, decided to spice things up.  Instead of writing “Jordan answered the question…”, they changed it to “Jordan admitted…” adding a conspiratorial tone to the story.  
 

4.  A couple no-name losers have suggested Jordan saying he spoke with the President is indicative of….what?  Speaking with the president?  
 

What are you seeing here Billsy?   The criminal investigatory arm of the US government is going nowhere fast. Trump is not implicated. Jordan is not implicated.  
 

What’s got you bird dogging this one?   

 

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16 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

This post intrigues me.  You took the time to seek it out, read it, and consider it important enough to share with the group.  My assumption—and I could be wrong here—is that you think it bolsters a case against Jim Jordan for…something.

 

So, I read it, looking for some sort of smoking gun.  The article can be summed up as follows:

 

1. Politico asked Jim Jordan if he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6.

 

2. Politico said Jordan said he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6. 
 

3. Newsweek, recognizing that there is no compelling interest to a story that suggest a journalist received a benign answer to a question, decided to spice things up.  Instead of writing “Jordan answered the question…”, they changed it to “Jordan admitted…” adding a conspiratorial tone to the story.  
 

4.  A couple no-name losers have suggested Jordan saying he spoke with the President is indicative of….what?  Speaking with the president?  
 

What are you seeing here Billsy?   The criminal investigatory arm of the US government is going nowhere fast. Trump is not implicated. Jordan is not implicated.  
 

What’s got you bird dogging this one?   

 


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3 hours ago, BillStime said:


lmao - so threatened 

 

9 minutes ago, BillStime said:


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Same thing over and over and over.

 

No reasoning.

No intelligence

NO answers to questions about his post     (that is fear)

No REAL defense of his posts.....................just lashing out and projection.

 

 

 

 

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44 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Same thing over and over and over.

 

No reasoning.

No intelligence

NO answers to questions about his post     (that is fear)

No REAL defense of his posts.....................just lashing out and projection.

 

 

 

 

 

So threatened. LMAO

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Same thing over and over and over.

 

No reasoning.

No intelligence

NO answers to questions about his post     (that is fear)

No REAL defense of his posts.....................just lashing out and projection.

 

 

 

 

It’s on me.  I try every now and again and it’s waste of time. A while back he was blathering on about Jordan and I asked the same basic question—“What ya got?”.  Here’s the answer—he’s got someone else’s Star Wars meme.  
 

 

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54 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

So threatened.

 

 

And over, and over, and over.

 

No response.

 

 

 

I guess we'll go back to talking Three Wise Men on January 6

By Silvio Canto, Jr

 

As a kid growing up in a Cuban Catholic home, I remember waking up on January 6 and rushing to see gifts the Three Wise Men had left us.  Kids in the U.S. had Santa Claus, and we had Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, the three men who brought gifts to the baby Jesus. 

 

Last January 6, some people got out of control and charged the U.S. Capitol.  It was immediately called an "insurrection" and got President Trump impeached.

 

So where are we now?  It appears that a lot of people, especially in the news media, have a little explaining to do, as Julie Kelly wrote:

 

The Justice Department now seems to be prepping the ground for a major letdown. "The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result," Reuters reported August 20. Nearly all of the cases, four former and current law enforcement officials said, are "one-offs" while roughly five percent are associated with so-called militia groups.

 

"FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside," the unnamed sources told Reuters.

 

So something happened, but not an effort to overthrow the U.S. government or an insurrection.

 

Looking back, my gut feeling turned out to be right.  I recall going locally on TV and saying I did not think the rioters were Trump-supporters.  Why not?  Because violence and chaos were never part of Trump rallies.  Did you ever hear of Trump-supporters burning cities or attacking the police?  Secondly, I always wondered about Capitol security.  How could a major U.S. federal building be this unprotected?  What if real terrorists with bombs had actually attacked the Capitol?

So drop the probe unless we are looking into who decided to leave the Capitol unprotected.

 

Thank God we are getting our January 6 back — the day that brings back so many childhood memories in Cuba.

 

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/i_guess_well_go_back_to_talking_three_wise_men_on_january_6th.html

 

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9 hours ago, BillStime said:


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scant

/skant/

adjective

1.barely sufficient or adequate:"companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations"

verb

1.provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts:North American"he does not scant his attention to the later writings"

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28 minutes ago, Unforgiven said:

 

scant

/skant/

adjective

1.barely sufficient or adequate:"companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations"

verb

1.provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts:North American"he does not scant his attention to the later writings"

I have to say that it seems that “scant” is an exaggeration based on what has been revealed so far. 

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16 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

This post intrigues me.  You took the time to seek it out, read it, and consider it important enough to share with the group.  My assumption—and I could be wrong here—is that you think it bolsters a case against Jim Jordan for…something.

 

So, I read it, looking for some sort of smoking gun.  The article can be summed up as follows:

 

1. Politico asked Jim Jordan if he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6.

 

2. Politico said Jordan said he spoke with Donald Trump on 1/6. 
 

3. Newsweek, recognizing that there is no compelling interest to a story that suggest a journalist received a benign answer to a question, decided to spice things up.  Instead of writing “Jordan answered the question…”, they changed it to “Jordan admitted…” adding a conspiratorial tone to the story.  
 

4.  A couple no-name losers have suggested Jordan saying he spoke with the President is indicative of….what?  Speaking with the president?  
 

What are you seeing here Billsy?   The criminal investigatory arm of the US government is going nowhere fast. Trump is not implicated. Jordan is not implicated.  
 

What’s got you bird dogging this one?   

 

yahoo.com told him in between kardassian stories

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14 hours ago, Doc said:

 

But no charges for using them?


 

19 hours ago,  Doc said: 

So, still no one charged with gun possession or treason and still no evidence of being coordinated?  Keep tilting at windmills, Donkey hoteys.  

 

——— stop moving goal posts when you’re wrong.

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15 hours ago, Doc said:

 

But no charges for using them?


Your initial statement was there were no gun possession charges. Yes there were. You spreading misinformation is incorrect and while usually okay on right wing sites shouldn’t be the norm here.


Instead of admitting your misinformation and then asking if there were charges for guns being fired is moving the goal posts so much that Scott Norwood would have won the Super Bowl.

 

We would need to know the prosecutor’s intent on discharge. 1. what’s the parts of the crime that need to be proved and what’s the difficulty in proving them and 2. Is the extra jail time, if any worth the extra work time and effort then putting the scumbag in jail for possession? 
 

As a nation, we’ve spend a crazy amount of putting these idiots in jail. Let them rot on easy sentences and save the American taxpayers money.

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24 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:


Your initial statement was there were no gun possession charges. Yes there were. You spreading misinformation is incorrect and while usually okay on right wing sites shouldn’t be the norm here.


Instead of admitting your misinformation and then asking if there were charges for guns being fired is moving the goal posts so much that Scott Norwood would have won the Super Bowl.

 

We would need to know the prosecutor’s intent on discharge. 1. what’s the parts of the crime that need to be proved and what’s the difficulty in proving them and 2. Is the extra jail time, if any worth the extra work time and effort then putting the scumbag in jail for possession? 
 

As a nation, we’ve spend a crazy amount of putting these idiots in jail. Let them rot on easy sentences and save the American taxpayers money.

 

 

For you.

 

and your scattered replies.

 

 

BASIC CONCEPTS OF LOGIC

https://courses.umass.edu/phil110-gmh/text/c01.pdf

The definition of 'argument' that is relevant to logic is given as follows. An argument is a collection of statements 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:

9 hours ago,  Doc said: 

So, still no one charged with gun possession or treason and still no evidence of being coordinated?  Keep tilting at windmills, Donkey hoteys.  

 

——— stop moving goal posts when you’re wrong.

 

1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:

Your initial statement was there were no gun possession charges. Yes there were. You spreading misinformation is incorrect and while usually okay on right wing sites shouldn’t be the norm here.


Instead of admitting your misinformation and then asking if there were charges for guns being fired is moving the goal posts so much that Scott Norwood would have won the Super Bowl.

 

We would need to know the prosecutor’s intent on discharge. 1. what’s the parts of the crime that need to be proved and what’s the difficulty in proving them and 2. Is the extra jail time, if any worth the extra work time and effort then putting the scumbag in jail for possession? 
 

As a nation, we’ve spend a crazy amount of putting these idiots in jail. Let them rot on easy sentences and save the American taxpayers money.

 

True, I said "gun possession" despite knowing that 1 person had been charged awhile ago with possession.  I should have been more specific.  Because only 4 people out of 600 or so being charged with possession, without brandishing their weapons, much less using them, and none being charged with insurrection/treason, isn't much of a winner for you.

 

Yes, as a nation we've spent a crazy amount of money on trumped-up charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, destruction of property and assault.  We should have released them like we released the domestic terrorists/insurrectionists from last year.  We would have saved a lot more.

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

For you.

 

and your scattered replies.

 

 

BASIC CONCEPTS OF LOGIC

https://courses.umass.edu/phil110-gmh/text/c01.pdf

The definition of 'argument' that is relevant to logic is given as follows. An argument is a collection of statements 

 

 

 


It’s very logical:

 

Doc: where are the gun possession charges 

Me: They’re here

Doc: One sec, Im moving the goalposts from my original request and now want the gun charges where shots are fire

Me: you’re moving the goalposts

 

As an NPC with all of your right wing articles you like to post, I’m sure you like to see factual accuracy. 
 

Doc posting implying that there were no gun charges on 1/6 is factually inaccurate.

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Just now, BillStime said:


Is Marjorie or Kev worried their phone records and data is going to show who planted those pipe bombs on 1/5?

 

Why so tired?

 

Party is just getting started old man.

There’s a difference between tired and bored. You’re exhausting and I’m bored.

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