Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Two previously unreported video clips obtained by The Washington Post shed new light on the fatal shooting by police of Trump supporter and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt as she and other rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Babbitt and others were attempting to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon, angrily demanding that three U.S. Capitol Police officers who were guarding the door step aside, one of the clips shows. The officers moved away as colleagues in tactical gear arrived behind the rioters, according to the clip and other video posted online.

Roughly 35 seconds after the officers moved away, as she climbed up toward a broken section of the unguarded door, Babbitt was shot by an officer on the other side.

Babbitt, a 35-year-old California native, and more than a dozen others appeared to be trying to get into the Speaker’s Lobby, a hallway that would have given them access to the House of Representatives chamber, according to a Post analysis of video footage and plans of the Capitol.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-capitol/

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Video (warning: graphic) at link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-capitol/

[msongs]

1. that clip was around yesterday, nothing new about it nt

[brooklynite]

5. No it wasn't...

There were other clips circulating yesterday. This has a lot more detail of where the gunshot came from and who was behind the door (members of Congress included).

[msongs]

7. clip showing her get shot was on yesterday. watched it several times at least nt

[2naSalit]

12. Same here.

Watched it a few times. She got what she deserved. I only saw a few minutes prior to the gun shot and after that were at the beginning and end of this video. Otherwise, same video.

[BlueStater]

17. I watched up until the point she fell off the door.

She was a bad person, but I have no desire to watch her bleed to death.

[2naSalit]

18. Doesn't show that...

It does show how she was shot and instantly neutralized though. Do terrorist shit, get the terrorist's reward.

[SergeStorms]

41. Yes, two different clips of the shooting were on yesterday.

There's no more detail in this one than the others. It may be new for the Washington Post, but it's certainly not new on the interwebs.

[fearnobush]

2. This is all over the internet for days now.

[sfstaxprep]

3. BOOM!

This video never gets old.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. If you come across some media you haven't seen before about the riot, save them. There is an archive

I think BellingCat is running a media archive.

It will help identify and will be evidence in criminal cases.

[doc03]

6. Why did the cops suddenly move away from the doors? Because the Tactical

Officers told them to?

[2naSalit]

13. In the beginning the House members were being evacuated...

Once they were out of sight, the door cops moved. The one who shot that horrid individual was doing his job, preventing anyone from getting past the doors.

[doc03]

16. OK nt

[Warpy]

20. It looks like the chamber had been evacuated.

Dead cops won't do anyone much good, so they pulled off to the side once the room had been evacuated.

It was a reasonable move.

I don't know who shot that loudmouthed twit, it didn't sound like a round from the Big Ugly Gun the Tactical guy was carrying. It will be interesting when ballistics studies are released, if they are.

[doc03]

21. The shot came from an officer's Glock 9mm on the other side of the door

you can see the recoil from the gun.

[Warpy]

22. Thanks. MY eyesight sucks but my hearing is great

The one shooting the video kept focusing on the cop with the rifle, who didn't look like he'd pointed it at anyone.

[LudwigPastorius]

35. Those cops were in the line of fire.

If the police on the House chamber side of the barricade had to use suppressive fire to keep the rioters out, they would have been in danger of being hit.

[SergeStorms]

42. There was another crew of more well armed officers...

coming up the stairwell that's out of view in this clip. The officers at the door should NOT have left their post until relieved though. That's the door that enters into the House Chambers, and past that these people would have had access to House Representatives. Like they always say to those arrested at BLM protests, "Comply and you won't be harmed or arrested". She was the first one coming through the broken window and didn't comply.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Representatives were there just minutes before the break-in & shooting. She was there to arrest

She had retweeted a tweet about arresting Pence and trying him for treason.

Rioters had set up a gallows outside with a functioning noose. They were serious. It seems the right course of action to have shot her.

[mountain grammy]

38. It could have been so much worse

if more of them had shown up.. Imagine a hundred thousand of these psychos. They would have been doing executions while trump and family yukked it up down the street.

They were dead serious.

[frazzled]

9. There's a problem with our media showing footage

with no sound. The clip of this incident (from a different angle) that replayed hundreds of times on Wednesday and Thursday had piqued my husband’s interest. He kept asking what was happening in the lower right as the doors were being breached. It looked like someone went down at the right edge, and then the camera panned and people moved toward that spot. But no sound.

Then last night we had on Amanpour & Co., and the BBC played that clip (and others), but with SOUND. You could hear the shot and immediately knew that this was the scene of the woman’s death. They also identified the scene as the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby.

It never occurred to me that almost all the clips of the insurrection we’ve been viewing on MSNBC and CNN have been soundless sidebars while talking heads yammer. In the clips we saw on Amanpor you could hear all the shouting and ugly slogans and chaos, and believe me, it was much more chilling.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Another 1000 Riot Police outside the capitol would have prevented the incursion

Sad these people were so deluded, but when the mind is gone, it's gone

[Grokenstein]

11. One shot and suddenly it's "Oh shit!"

"Wait a second, we could get hurt! Waaaaa, mommeeeeeeeee!!"

[2naSalit]

15. +1

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. They were there to kill.

Then when one of them gets shot and killed instead, it's suddenly "tyranny" to those idiots.

Waaah!

[captain queeg]

19. I hadn't seen this before The prelude made it obvious these people were dangerous

I don't see how anyone could watch this and not condemn those in the mob

[NHvet]

23. Life lesson

If you play with the tiger, expect to get bit. Can't cry when you do.

[BigmanPigman]

28. Yup, live by the sword,.....

[Escurumbele]

24. The one thing I can say is that the one who was doing the least damage paid the price

Other thugs were causing the damage, she got the bullet. Not sure if the police who shot was aiming at anyone in particular, that would have to be investigated.

[spudspud]

36. She was the first one trying to go through the broken glass of the door.

That's why she got shot and fell from a height back onto the floor.

[KG]

25. you can bet she believed they wouldn't shoot her, till the moment the pin hit the shell.

[cntrfthrs]

26. good...

...riddance...

[Tikki]

27. Something..stand your ground..protecting the American Peoples' property.

Tikki

[yaesu]

29. I will say one thing for her, she sure knows how to drop dead with grace. nt

[TomSlick]

30. Police officers should be restrained about discharging their weapons but this was a righteous shoot.

The officer's job was to protect the folks inside that door. These insurrectionists were in the process of breaking down the door.

The lives of Congress members, staff and others were being threatened. There was no other rational choice.

I can work up no sympathy for a secessionist attempting to break into a locked door protecting Congress members, etc.

[MRDAWG]

31. I don't understand why many were not shot when they

entered the Capitol

[Nitram]

34. I appreciate the the officers exercised restraint. We have proved we are not a banana republic that

shoots its own citizens to preserve power. I wish our police exercised the same restraint when it comes to people of color.

[LudwigPastorius]

37. The police didn't want to massacre them for trespassing and vandalizing property.

But, by the time of the shooting, I'd bet that the cops protecting the House chamber had been in radio contact and knew that some of those scumbags were carrying weapons. They may have even known about the pipe bombs.

Knowing that, and seeing the rioters try to get past the barricade, made deadly force necessary.

Even then, it was dispensed judiciously. Once she was shot, the rest of those "patriots" thought twice about what they were trying to do and backed the fuck off.

[canuckledragger]

32. Knowing that most bullies are cowards at heart...

That big ol' p---- punching at the glass, spiderwebbing it was probably the first to run once he'd seen the gun.

And the rest of the crowd of cowards moved pretty quick too when the the other idiot got shot.

[Nitram]

33. Thank you for posting. In my opinion, the officer was doing his duty trying to prevent the breach

of an area he was sworn to protect. Everyone was warned he had a gun but she persisted in trying to break through. Tragic because she, as a trained military personnel, should have known better. Perhaps I should add, as an American, she should have known better.

[marble falls]

39. She had to know what the possibilities were.

[orangecrush]

40. ...

[DeltaLitProf]

43. I hate to interrupt the party . . .

. . . but I have to ask. Why would a warning shot not have been effective here? Why was the only solution a shoot-to-kill?

[marble falls]

45. Watch the video. A line of cops didn't stop her. A barracaded door didn't stop her. Armed police ...

... pointing pistols and shouted warnings from the other side of the door she broke through didn't stop her. A bullet did stop her.

She had multiple opportunities to come to her senses.

If you think this is a party, you aren't paying attention.