Watchdog suit forces DOJ to release memo declining criminal prosecution of Ashli Babbitt's shooter

…Included in the documents is a memorecommending the "United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of" Babbitt.

The documents also state that U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the shooter, "did not create a police report or documents" related to the incident.

Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot and she attempted to climb through a broken window into the lobby of the House chamber during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Congress and the Justice Department did not reveal the identity of the shooter until about eight months after the riot – until Byrd was ready to go public himself and defend his actions.

Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the Civil Rights Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation would not provide the requested records following two Freedom of Information Act requests from the organization.

The memo recommending not to prosecute Byrd justifies that decision, stating, "based on a review of law enforcement and civilian eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, recorded radio communications, cell phone footage, [Metropolitan Police Department] reports, forensic reports, and the autopsy report for Ms. McEntee (Babbitt).

"After a thorough review of the facts and circumstances in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant Byrd violated Ms. McEntee’s civil rights by willfully using more force than was reasonably necessary…








Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/watchdog-suit-forces-doj-release-memo-declining-criminal-prosecution-ashli








What a surprise. It’s a total cover up as expected. Ms. Babbitt was murdered for no good reason in cold blood. This officer recently left a loaded hand gun in a public restroom.

 

Two timely memos uncovered today to tell the truth that will not be told tonight by the illegitimate congressional committee

 

Careful, if you question the police they may stop doing their jobs.

 

It was a justifiable "good shoot" by the Cop. Period!

 

Total cover up of what? The shooting of a criminal attacking congress? How could anyone cover that up?

 

Exactly...
An Honest Cop actually does his job and the RW wants to hang the Cop?
Why does the RW have a War with Honest Cops?

 

Actually, it was anything but that…

 

There was and is nothing honest about that particular cop….

 

Someone sticks their head through a broken window at my house and they will get it blown off.

 

Ashley Babbitt is dead because she was stupid enough to climb through that smashed window while an officer was right there, pointing a gun at her and shouting at her to stop. She was not murdered, she was shot while committing a crime by an officer who gave her clear warning. He could not see her hands, could not tell is she was armed or what she might have in that backpack. I would have shot her, too.

It. Was. His. Effing. Job.

 

They're just getting started, and they are not judging, simply presenting facts.

You didn't watch, did you? Had it been the other way around, and the right wing's favorite boogeyman, antifa, had swarmed into the Capitol, would you still call the committee illegitimate?

 

LOL, what coverup? The memo basically confirmed the official stance of the investigation when it was closed. Babbit was breaking into Nancy Pelosi's office. Several members of Congress witnessed the incident and stated in their statements that the capital police officer had no choice. And because Babbitt failed to comply with the officer's orders and demands, and because the insurrection mob was determined to violate laws in an unruly manner, then deadly force may be used. In the Department of Justice's official statement in 2021, it laid out the basic facts as follows, "The investigation further determined that Ms. Babbitt was among a mob of people that entered the Capitol building and gained access to a hallway outside “Speaker’s Lobby,” which leads to the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. At the time, the USCP was evacuating Members from the Chamber, which the mob was trying to enter from multiple doorways. USCP officers used furniture to barricade a set of glass doors separating the hallway and Speaker’s Lobby to try and stop the mob from entering the Speaker’s Lobby and the Chamber, and three officers positioned themselves between the doors and the mob. Members of the mob attempted to break through the doors by striking them and breaking the glass with their hands, flagpoles, helmets, and other objects. Eventually, the three USCP officers positioned outside the doors were forced to evacuate. As members of the mob continued to strike the glass doors, Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out. An officer inside the Speaker’s Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor. A USCP emergency response team, which had begun making its way into the hallway to try and subdue the mob, administered aid to Ms. Babbitt, who was transported to Washington Hospital Center, where she succumbed to her injuries."

Thus, the internal memo is not earth-shattering and has confirmed what the DOJ stance has been all along.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-police-shooting-ashli-babbitt

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/department-justice-closes-investigation-death-ashli-babbitt

 

And yet this didn’t happen anywhere where liberal mobs looted and vandalized inside a lot of places all of the prior spring, summer, and fall of the prior year 500+ times.

 

There was something on tv this evening? I watched Tucker, Hannity, Laura this evening to get the truth.

 

Sad attempt to deflect. Does that ever really work?

If liberals had done this at the congressional building had orange won, would you be calling the dozens of Republican investigations illegitimate?

 

What the hell does that have to do with what happened at the Capitol?

 

I'm sorry but I don't think liberals would do this. We don't look on deceptive tactics and dirty tricks as just politics as usual, Mind, we do them but at least we have the decency to lie about it.

 

the right still going on about this, seriously folks

 

guess some republicans hate cops

 

no doubt, no wonder good cops do not want to be cops anymore, republicans constantly attacking them

 

So? Did they present a threat to anyone's safety?

 

Cops only do what they're told by superiors so the question remains: Why did White House superiors tell cops to kill Babbit while the Seattle and Louisville superiors told cops to stand down during violent protest (much more violent than at the White House) in their cities?.

 

Duh. Yes.

 

Damn I love this justification for lethal force. I look forward to Trump sharing it with his protestors on Jan 6 2025.

 

Kinky