Graphic video shows armed officer shooting Ashli Babbitt

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Oh shit, they're gonna make a martyr out of her

[Roland99]

1. Police or Secret Service? Cops don't wear suits.

[dalton99a]

2. The cop did his job.

[Kittycow]

3. Killed in the commission of a crime. Wah.

[HipChick]

4. It is what it is...

[vercetti2021]

5. Oh well

She chose her fate by being a fucking blind idiot. Idgaf.

[elleng]

7. breaking and entering

[vercetti2021]

10. Committing sedition

Somebody accused me of celebrating it earlier. I'm not celebrating it, I just don't give a fuck if you decide to play fate.

[elleng]

13. sedition while breaking and entering.

[vercetti2021]

14. Yep

It's hard for me to actually give any pity or care for somebody that decided to play a game with fate.

[elleng]

15. NO PITY

[brush]

24. And fomenting insurrection by storming the nation's capitol.

The security officer, probably part of the Speaker's security detail, was protecting legislatures and staff from violent, domestic terrorists.

She chose to be there, chose to try to climb through that broken window and got shot. That kind of thing happens often to people who foment insurrection.

[malaise]

28. Add me to that list

Actions have consequences

[elleng]

6. fatally shoot a 'marauding trump supporter.'

[mr_lebowski]

8. Her husband made it sound like she's a military intelligence officer, or thereabouts

She ABSOLUTELY knew that she was risking her life by breaching the area she was forcing her way into. She's not some ignorant rube who didn't know the rules.

The Secret Service might even have identified, by her actions, that she was a skilled operative, and therefore represented an inordinately high threat, and acted with deadly force in part on those grounds.

[PSPS]

9. Insurrectionist storms the citadel, gets shot. This is a surprise?

As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[DanieRains]

11. They Were Doing Their Job Protecting The People In The Building

It is amazing more terrorists weren't shot during their attack.

[Strelnikov_]

12. Who were the cops just behind the perp?

An escort?

[smirkymonkey]

17. Yeah, curious.

Seems like they were aiding and abetting. They should have stopped her, rather it seems like they were encouraging her.

[Hortensis]

35. Looked to me like they came up the stairs shortly after she was shot.

The stairs were empty to the right of the screen after she went down.

Just a few more seconds quicker might have made the difference, or they might have shot her instead -- she was the first insurrectionist to climb through the breach created in that defense. And she was wearing a backpack.

[tblue37]

16. That was always inevitable.

[underpants]

18. Well great, now Trump has to fit her funeral into his busy schedule

He obviously will be at such a loyal followers proceedings right?

[TeamPooka]

19. No need to prosecute the criminal here. She is dead.

[byronius]

20. Terrorist shot by hero cop.

Period.

[pfitz59]

21. The police behind the barricade were doing their job

What were the police in the stairwell doing?

[Hortensis]

36. Ascending.

[SoCal Roomba]

22. There's a guy in that mob wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie.

Yeah, these are very fine people.

She deserves what she got.

[EndlessWire]

23. I think it's sad that she got shot.

But, what was she thinking? You can clearly see a cop with a hand gun right there in the first doorway in the hall. He wasn't pretending. You can see others in the successive doorways.

This cop didn't fire until he saw her doing something that breached that door. He was defending that door. He probably wasn't going to let anybody breach the door. That's what he was supposed to do.

In view of what happened in Michigan with that Governor, and in view of what was happening here, no one should have thought that they could just freely enter an area where high profile targets were sequestered. And, especially since they had backpacks.

I heard commentators repeatedly stating that the "protestors" were peaceful. No, they were not. Breaking glass and attempting to push against a barricaded door where they clearly were not permitted is not peaceful.

What a waste of life.

Were those cops? They had long guns. If they were cops, why oh why did they allow those people to do all that? I think that needs an explanation.

[brush]

25. I wonder if they were cops? There were reports of some disguising themselves...

as Antifa...dressing in all black...so as to blame the left. I agee investigations need to be done because those black-clad figures with long guns didn't seem to be trying very hard to stop the rioters.

[joshcryer]

32. I don't think she saw the gun.

I think she was just jumping through barricaded/doors/windows and she was just moseying along thinking it was just fine to continue the incursion. Huge, huge mistake on her behalf.

[dogknob]

26. Sayonara, TERRORIST!

[Sedona]

27. She was shot as she forcibly entered the office

She was shot as she forcibly entered the office of second in the United States presidential line of succession with a backpack. As she should have been.

[coti]

29. She and the insurrectionists TOOK UP ARMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

and invaded OUR CAPITOL BUILDING, threatening and disrupting the work of the highest leaders of our country, who at that very moment were trying to carry out a constitutionally-mandated process to determine who our next President will be.

This after threat after threat to bring guns and setting up nooses and carrying insurrectionist flags historically responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. No one had any idea who was and wasn't armed in that mob.

I am AMAZED only one of them got shot. What unbelievable restraint on the part of the police, much more restrained than they should have been in a situation like that.

This wasn't a "police action," this was quite literally defending the cornerstone of our federal government against a thousands-strong insurrection.

[Solly Mack]

30. I'm all for civil disobedience. But what happened yesterday was insurrection. Insurrection.

People die in insurrections.

Their right to free speech stopped the second they stormed the Capitol, broke the barricades, and went on a rampage inside the Capitol building where elected officials were trying to conduct government business.

They have made threats for years. They made threats for weeks about January 6th. Made threats the day of - and then they went after members of Congress.

If they thought they would be protected because of Trump, then they're idiots.

She'd dead because of her own actions, the actions of who co-insurrectionists, and because of Trump and his GOP enablers.

That's why she's dead.

So that is the list of people to arrest - the insurrectionists, Trump, and his GOP enablers.

[herding cats]

31. Nice of her fellow terrorist to warn her there was a man with a gun pulled standing there.

What people will do for a viral video these days.

[Captain Zero]

33. That hallway is to the Speaker's office

If they got to the Speaker of the House, I have no doubt they would have killed her.

[Renew Deal]

34. She crossed the wrong line.

No one else tried going through the door. Also, I think what happened is what most people expected to happen to someone trying to overrun the building.

[tenderfoot]

37. It appears to be a secret service agent.

[Fullduplexxx]

38. They should have kept shooting at them til they ran away

[Fullduplexxx]

39. She was committing b.e. and they stood their ground

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Different tune when the victim is an unarmed black guy.